Find a Legendary Needle

Prospectus

Find a Legendary Needle is a first-person farm simulator set in a golden autumn valley. Somewhere inside a giant haystack lies a legendary needle. Grab hay by hand or with a rake, pitchfork, golden trident or a roaring Hay Vac, sell it at the Hay Press, buy upgrades in the workshop and follow the Seeker Compass until the needle glints through the straw. Dig up glowing special straw and hidden treasures, send magpie helpers to work, blast craters with firecrackers and collect 12 legendary needles on your trophy shelves.

How it plays

Find the legendary needle hidden in the haystack. Aim at the hay and grab it to fill your backpack, then walk into the Hay Press to sell it for coins. Buy the Seeker Compass, tools and bigger backpacks in the workshop and follow the compass arrow; dig down where the needle glints. Desktop: WASD to move, mouse to look, left mouse button to grab, E to buy or open, Q to throw a firecracker, Space to jump. Mobile: stick on the left, swipe on the right to look, Grab button to collect hay.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a flexible screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for simulation holdings

• Learn the loop before optimising it. Every simulation is a circle — earn, spend, expand, earn more — and the players who last are the ones who found the circle's slow point early.
• Watch one full cycle without touching anything. A simulation confesses its priorities when left alone: whatever runs out first is what the designer wants you managing.
• Small inefficiencies compound faster than big ones. A route that wastes ten seconds every cycle costs more than a disaster that happens once, so audit the routine before the dramatic.

Find a Legendary Needle — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Find a Legendary Needle?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Find a Legendary Needle, exactly?

We file it on the Simulation shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Find a Legendary Needle on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Find a Legendary Needle is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Simulation shelf is one click away — The ledger's main hall: 302 simulations of everything from bus routes to burger counters to entire small lives. If it can be run, staffed, watered or worried over, somebody has simulated it and filed it here.