Wow – Hadean Lands: Interactive Alchemical Fiction Review

This game is amazing. It’s fundamentally a text adventure, and anyone who’s played Zork or even the original Adventure game will have no trouble figuring out the types of commands it’s likely to understand. But there are some player aids, such as separate tabs with a pre-drawn map, a list of the alchemical rituals you know, and a page for your own notes. You won’t need a pile of scratch paper like you did with Zork-era adventures. Still, if you’re not into typing commands at a game, you might not like it. But the writing is excellent, the puzzles are thematic, difficult, and multi-layered, and you will get drawn into the game’s curious world. If I had to find a fault, it would be that the ending is on the bleak side. But you’ll have lots of fun getting to the ending (and you won’t get there very quickly in any case).
Review by tgl42 on Hadean Lands: Interactive Alchemical Fiction.