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Games like Hadean Lands

2014PC11.79 €

A pure text adventure about alchemy aboard a crashed starship. You solve intricate, interlocking puzzles by planning rituals and typing commands, making for a demanding and rewarding experience.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Deep systems to master
  • Lots to discover

The closest matches for Hadean Lands are TIS-100, Myst: Masterpiece Edition and Hacknet. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Hadean Lands special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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TIS-100

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2015PC97 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Hadean Lands: puzzles to figure out, a demanding difficulty and complex systems to tinker with.

A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.

Myst: Masterpiece Edition

Lots to discover

You explore the mysterious island of Myst alone and travel through magical books to other worlds, unraveling their puzzles and the story behind them. A quiet, atmospheric puzzle adventure with no combat, where observation and thinking are everything.

Hacknet

Lots to discover

Hacknet is a hacking simulator played entirely in a terminal, where you use real-style commands to break into systems and uncover the mysterious death of a hacker. It offers little hand-holding, plenty of secrets and an atmospheric network full of puzzles.

Hack Run

Strong, story-driven narrative

A hacking puzzle game played entirely through a simulated DOS/UNIX-style command-line operating system. You infiltrate a mysterious organization step by step and uncover its secrets.

Myst

Lots to discover

A landmark adventure where you wander a mysterious island alone and solve intricate logic puzzles woven into the environment to uncover the fate of two trapped brothers. With no combat or hand-holding, it is a quiet, observation-driven journey of discovery.

Shenzhen I/O

Deep systems to master

A Zachtronics programming puzzler where you build circuits and write code in a compact assembly language. The authentic-feeling manual and demanding optimization challenges make it a true tinkerer's test.

The Longest Journey

Strong, story-driven narrative

A classic point-and-click adventure in which April Ryan travels between the science-driven world of Stark and the magical world of Arcadia. Its strengths are the long, character-driven story, strong dialogue and inventory puzzles.

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Lots to discover

Riven sends you alone through a decaying, lovingly crafted island world where you must decipher interlocking mechanical puzzles with almost no guidance. Its dense atmosphere and coherent world design make it a classic of the adventure genre.

Exapunks

Deep systems to master

A programming puzzle game set in a 1990s hacker world, where you write assembly-like scripts for tiny spider-bots that crawl through other people's networks. It pairs a grim cyberpunk story about a deadly virus with a charming zine-style manual.

Infinifactory

Pure single-player experience

A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.

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