Name: Hamlet - The text adventure
Price: 5.00 USD

You're the prince of Denmark, and boy, are you in a sucky mood! You've been grounded again, your friends don't understand you, and your evil uncle has murdered your father to usurp the throne.

Experience Shakespeare's greatest tragedy as the Elizabethans themselves did, on their primitive 286-based PCs.

You can play the game online for free (click "Run game" above), or download it for offline play for $5. The download comes with a high quality map of the game, and a page of designer's notes.

"In just five minutes' playing, I was hooked" – Neil Gaiman

"Superb" – Guardian

"While the idea is good, the execution lacks some of Shakespeare's poetry" – Scotsman

"Oh my goodness" – Ryan North

"Well-executed, extremely funny" – Cory Doctorow

"Mildly amusing" - Channel 4

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating	Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Author	Robin Johnson
Genre	Interactive Fiction, Adventure
Tags	Comedy, Narrative, Retro, shakespeare, text-adventure, Text based, tragedy
Average session	About an hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard
Accessibility	Blind friendly

Purchase

Buy Now$5.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Designer's notes 46 kB

Map of the game 653 kB

hamlet_ta.zip 129 kB

Development log

Added map and designer's notes
Dec 01, 2020
Hints!
Aug 21, 2020
Fixed saved games
Aug 17, 2020
added Windows download
Dec 10, 2019
Hamlet on itch
Dec 06, 2019

Comments

o0pyromancer0o271 days ago

I killed Claudius, but after fighting (and getting killed by) Laertes, the game still tells me that I haven't avenged my father and Claudius is still king. I finished on 94%. Am I missing something, or is it bugged?

Robin Johnson270 days ago

Hmmm, if Claudius is dead then that does sound like a bug, unless there's some bit of plot that I've forgotten (in which case it's at the very least unclearly signalled, but honestly it's more likely a bug.) I'll check it out. Thank you for the report, and sorry for the anticlimax—please accept my apologies and my official recognition of your status of Official Winner and Certified Tragic Hero!
Robin

o0pyromancer0o269 days ago(+1)

I tried again from an earlier save, and this time achieved 100%. I don't know that I did anything differently except last time I saved immediately after killing Claudius while this time I saved before entering the castle for the last time and completed it from there without furhter saves. Don't know if that has any bearing on the issue.

avoca9993 years ago

Me again - are there any hints? I can't find any. I'm, stuck! (on 58%, just so you know I'm not asking lightly!)

Robin Johnson3 years ago

I've finally re-added the hints - you can see them by typing HINTS. Enjoy!

avoca9993 years ago(+1)

Woohoo, thanks!

avoca9993 years ago (1 edit)

Hello - it's not saving cookies. This is Chrome on Windows (I get the same in IE on Windows):

> save game1
Game saved to cookie GAME1.
Type RESTORE GAME1 to carry on from this point.

> restore game1
Cookie GAME1 not found, sorry.
(Type DIR to see a list of cookies.)

> dir
No cookies found.

I can see some itch.io cookies in Chrome settings.

Thanks for any ideas! Love the game!

**EDIT Save/restore seems to work fine in Portcullis and The Xylophoniad.

Robin Johnson3 years ago

I believe I have fixed this now, thank you! The game is so old it was using document.cookie rather than localStorage, and modern browsers don't seem to like the former any more.

Glad you're enjoying the game!

avoca9993 years ago

Yes I was just about to say either you've done something or I have! Working fine now!