Harlequin Fair: Harbour Dawn

Harlequin Fair: Harbour Dawn

released on Apr 25, 2022

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Harlequin Fair: Harbour Dawn

released on Apr 25, 2022

An expansion for Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair

Return to Toronto's sullen streets — now raked by northern winter winds — in this free expansion campaign. Come back to the realm of the masquerade dreamer: come back to the Harlequin fair.


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Harlequin Fair: Harbour Dawn is the unexpected, borderline shadow-dropped free expansion pack for Oleander Garden's Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair. More of a challenge mode than a proper expansion, Harbour Dawn nonetheless carries more tricks up its sleeve than you'd expect. The expansion is much harder, with NPCs being more aggressive, requiring more aggressive min-maxing of your armor and tarot cards to succeed. There are a few more tiny areas, mostly in cyberspace that add to the surrealism of the game, but for the most part, you are trekking through the same levels largely unchanged. For Harbour Dawn's purposes this is fine, and considering how it's free, far shorter, and has far simpler completion requirements, I don't take too much issue with it. It's more Harlequin Fair, but when that game was so unique, is that a bad thing? The only issue I take with the expansion is the new final boss, which I find to be annoyingly combat-focused in a way that doesn't work in a game that has fairly mediocre combat to begin with. I eventually beat her, but it wasn't very fun. Ultimately, a solid expansion pack for those who loved Harlequin Fair and wanted more of it, though expect a far harder experience.