Queensryche's Promised LandQueensryche's Promised Land

Game Details:  Adventure, 1996

Links:  Moby Games

Walkthrough Updated:  3/1/2026

Suggested Listening:  Help Me Out (Ash 25)

Queensryche's Promised Land is an abstract fantasy adventure game related to the progressive rock band Queensryche. The symbol of the band, the Triryche Totem Pole, is divided into 5 components are scattered around a series of different fantasy worlds, and you job is to reunite the pieces.

Forest

You will start looking up at the tall trees in the middle of the forest. You can safely explore the forest, with paths leading off in each direction, and can make your way back to the middle of the forest to be able to explore in another direction.

There are 5 separate worlds that can be accessed by exploring the paths in different directions. These can be completed in any order. In each of the worlds there are many things to explore, but the main goal is to locate the totem piece. Each world also has a disaster scenario that you can trigger and then solve. You will see the final scene once you have found all 5 totem pieces. You can use the pause menu to jump to any location you have visited previously.

Chris' World

Lighthouse

Totem Piece

Stand at the base of the stairs leading up to the lighthouse. Turn back around so you are facing away from the lighthouse. Walk forward but off to the left side twice, then turn left and pick up the totem piece.

Disaster Scenario

Head around the back of the lighthouse, then up the back stairs and inside. Go forward and look at a journal on the table to the left. When you open the journal you will see a list of numbers and a diagram - the only number that corresponds with the triangles on the diagram is 1999826. Turn right and play the guitar on the floor, then go through the mirror behind it.

You will now be inside the main part of the lighthouse. Step forward and pull the large switch on the wall to start the Oil Tanker game.

Click on the top left part of the display to see that you need to find and enter a 7-digit code. Turn left and go up the spiral staircase, then turn left some more and climb up the ladder to reach the top of the lighthouse. Approach the keypad and enter the code 1999826.

Michael's World

Obelisk Temple

Totem Piece

Go up the stairs on the outside of the temple. Don't head into the red tunnel, but instead climb up the stairs to the very top. Turn back around, then look in the left urn to find the totem piece.

Disaster Scenario

Go back down to the ground. Click on the lightning-bolt symbol on the pillar at the base of the stairs to start the Utility Room game.

Go up the stairs and enter the red tunnel on the front of the temple. Proceed along the corridor and enter the first room on the right, then turn left. Approach the computer terminal, and then match the words with their descriptions:

  • Mathematics: The summation of all things
  • Biology: The nature of life
  • Chemistry: Elemental combinations
  • Physics: The behavior of reality
  • Geology: Knowledge of the Earth
  • Architecture: Function as art, art as function
  • Astronomy: The question of the universe
  • Technology: Man's creation
  • Supernatural: Surpassing our understanding of nature
  • The Eternal Fire: The fire within us all
  • Incorporeal: Beyond physical existence
  • Crystals: A focus of the supernatural
  • Synchronicity: Non-causal relations
  • Transcendental: Beyond the mundane
  • Spirits: Manifestations of unseen forces
  • The Inner Eye: The organ of imagining
  • Yin/Yang: The opposites: order and chaos
  • Star of David: The symbol of faith to the people of Judaism
  • Blood of Life: The rivers of faith as old as the pyramids
  • The Raven: Spirit of the Earth before the white man came
  • Angels: Spirits of the good, protectors of the blessed and the meek
  • The Guiding Light: Enlightenment's answer reflects your own light
  • The Cross: Sacrifice and our persecution of the good

Eddie's World

Guitar Inside Jack-in-the-Box

Totem Piece

Make your way over to the turnstile, then turn left and go to the 4 control knobs. Turn back around to face the turnstile and pick up the ticket from the floor. Now approach the turnstile and click on the ticket slot to insert your ticket.

Go through and board the subway train. Turn right and approach the map on the wall. Click on the 4th destination from the top to find a sports bar. Go forward as far as you can, then turn right and click on the bar to be served a drink that contains the totem piece.

Disaster Scenario

In the subway train, go to the end opposite the map. Break the glass and press the button inside to start the Tuning Fork game.

Now go to the map and click on the top destination. Go forward into the room, then head around to the left. There is a screen here with 13 buttons beneath it. There are 6 videos you can trigger by clicking on the different spheres on the screen. Each video contains a hidden symbol, and you have to click the matching button while the video is playing:

A
B
C
D
E
F
E
C
A
F
B
D

Press the green buttons on the door to the left, then enter the elevator. In the next room you need to go to each of the 4 tuning pins and adjust them until you only hear two matching notes.

Scott's World

Floating Islands

Totem Piece

As you walk out onto the wooden platforms you will find an orange viewing device. Examine this and use it to zoom in on the floating city. Keep going straight ahead until you reach a red shop with a green door, then turn right twice. Go forward again 4 times, then turn back around. Click on the lit lamp on the left, and part of the city will turn into a wire-frame view. Click on it again to convert the rest of the city.

Click on the red building on the right to locate the totem piece.

Disaster Scenario

Click forward to leave the wire-frame view. Continue forward 5 times. Turn right twice. Now keep going forward to enter a tattoo parlor, and keep zooming in on the tattoo until you arrive back at the orange viewing device.

Examine the viewing device and look right, then forward, then right again, and zoom in on the space lab. Go in through the door to see a metal sign and start the Space Lab game.

Turn right and go through the gray door into a green room. Turn left and go through the door here, then continue through another gray door into a blue room. Turn left and go through the door here, then continue through yet another gray door into a dark room.

Examine the machine on the left, which has 10 blue and 10 pink buttons that look like this:

A
B
C
D
E
1
2
3
4
5
F
G
H
I
J
6
7
8
9
10

Press these pairs of buttons: A3, B10, C4, D9, E7, F1, G8, H5, I6, J2. These represent identical pairs of drum patterns. Each time you get one correct, the two halves of the brain on the display will get closer together.

Geoff's World

Boat

Totem Piece

Board the boat and click on the broken link in the chain around the helm to start sailing. You can examine the map, which is just above/behind the compass marker. To sail forward you click the main sail at the top of the screen, and to turn the boat you click the helm. Sail north, west and north twice. Turn to look to the right, then get onto the island.

Turn left to see a device with 3 rings. Click on the middle ring until you can see 2 thin straps on the left of the bottom ring. Now click the bottom ring until those 2 thin strips are also seen on the middle and top rings - the device will open, revealing the totem piece.

Disaster Scenario

Get back on the boat and examine the map again - notice the 5 buoys to the north. Sail to one of the buoys and click on it to start the drift net game. Now you need to sail to the other 4 buoys and click on them all as well.