Against the Storm – Cheat: How to Enable Queen’s Hand Mode without Beating Adamantine Seal

For tryhards without trying hard. This is cheating (obviously). Incorrect use may destroy/corrupt your save. Use at your own risk.

How to Cheat

Note: Credit goes to doomleika

Enabling Queen’s Hand Mode

Your save is located at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Eremite Games\Against the Storm\ make sure you make a backup in case it corrupts the save.

Locate the Save

Open the file with any texteditor

• %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Eremite Games\Against the Storm\Profiles.save

Or type the following path into your file explorer %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Eremite Games\Against the Storm\ locate Profiles.save and open with a text editor(in built app from Windows will do)

Modify the Save

The text should look like this:

[
  {
    "id": null,
    "name": null,
    "lastPickTime": 1702053998138,
    "creationTime": 1665408074465,
    "ironmanEverWon": false,
    "isIronmanUnlocked": true,
    "isIronman": false,
    "isIronmanActive": false,
    "ironmanResult": false,
    "ironmanEndTime": 0,
    "ironmanWorldSeed": 0,
    "ironmanGamesWon": 0,
    "ironmanValidLosses": 0
  }
]

Change the isIronmanUnlocked from false to true:

[
  {
    "id": null,
    "name": null,
    "lastPickTime": 1702053998138,
    "creationTime": 1665408074465,
    "ironmanEverWon": false,
    "isIronmanUnlocked": true,
    "isIronman": false,
    "isIronmanActive": false,
    "ironmanResult": false,
    "ironmanEndTime": 0,
    "ironmanWorldSeed": 0,
    "ironmanGamesWon": 0,
    "ironmanValidLosses": 0
  }
]

Save the file. start the game.

Start the Queen’s Hand Mode

At title screen, click your profile on the top right, there should be a Queen’s hand tab at right, create a profile there.