Lost and Hound is a mystery adventure game designed to be fully blind-accessible, where you step into the paws of Biscuit, a strong-willed Corgi. Your heightened senses of hearing and smell are your primary tools as you work to find and save people in trouble, catch criminals, and unravel the truth behind seemingly impossible situations.
As Biscuit, your exceptional hearing allows you to access information beyond human perception. By pausing, you can listen in a straight line over great distances. While moving, you perceive your surroundings with sharp auditory detail, hearing through walls and even detecting heartbeats, enabling you to sense danger or track individuals from afar. Your superior sense of smell, represented in the game by a low, pleasant humming sound, allows you to follow scent trails, navigating complex environments much like finding your way through an invisible maze using subtle audio cues.
You'll travel the world as Biscuit, taking on many roles inspired by real-world working dogs. These tasks range from assisting in hospitals with seizure and cancer detection to herding sheep in the Australian outback. Your work as a K9 tracker will take you to diverse locales such as Japan, the Swiss Alps, and the American wilderness. Between main missions, optional mini-levels offer opportunities to earn extra money to fund further travels and explore more exotic locations.
Key features of Lost and Hound include:
- Play as Biscuit the Corgi: Embody a determined canine detective on a global adventure.
- Solve Mysteries and Aid Others: Engage in tasks like solving crimes, tracking down missing people, and assisting those in need.
- Utilize Heightened Senses: Use your advanced hearing abilities (detecting heartbeats, hearing through walls) to piece together clues, and follow subtle scent trails (represented by sound cues) with your keen sense of smell.
- Diverse Working Dog Roles: Experience various real-world working dog responsibilities, such as assisting with medical detection or providing emotional support to zoo animals.
- Global Adventures and Mini-Levels: Journey to different countries and complete optional mini-levels to earn funds for your K9 travels.
- Meet Animal Friends: Encounter and interact with other animal characters throughout your travels.
- Full Blind Accessibility: The game is designed to be entirely playable and enjoyable for blind users.
Lost and Hound offers a unique gameplay experience, centered on non-visual sensory information, making it an empowering and engaging adventure for all players, especially those who are blind.