HOUND

About HOUND

HOUND is a single player simulation game. It was developed by Nick Shesterin and was released on March 28, 2017. It received negative reviews from players.

Hound is not a game in a conservative way, but a powerful engine, you can play - a system that can create a new unique world for you to shape and conquer.

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Play Modes

Single-Player

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32%Audience ScoreBased on 47 reviews

music2 positive mentions

gameplay3 negative mentions

Unique and fascinating concept involving creating intelligent creatures and observing their evolution.
Interesting depth and complexity for players interested in neural networks and AI programming.
Appealing visual style and minimal, unnerving soundtrack that enhance the atmosphere.

Extremely unintuitive and confusing user interface with little to no helpful tutorials or instructions.
Frequent crashes, bugs, poor optimization leading to high CPU/GPU usage and lag.
Game appears unfinished and abandoned by developers with no meaningful updates or community support.

graphics
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
The game features a distinctive Y2K sci-fi art style with a unique aesthetic, but its graphics suffer from poor clarity and performance issues, running at low frame rates even on high-end PCs and appearing distorted or broken.
- “Good visual aesthetic to them, but their lack of basic clarity is problematic.”
- “The Y2K sci-fi art style.”
- “Music is good and I like the feel of the graphics.”
- “Good visual aesthetic, but the lack of basic clarity is problematic.”
- “It uses way too much processor and memory for the wireframe graphics.”
- “It runs at 10 fps on a new gaming PC, and the graphics literally look like your video card is dying.”
gameplay
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33% positive mentions, -33% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The gameplay is described as abstract and underdeveloped, with unintuitive controls that lack clear purpose or engaging results. While it incorporates evolution mechanics reminiscent of Karl Sims, it fails to effectively encourage or guide the main gameplay flow.
- “The Karl Sims-esque evolution mechanics.”
- “I was expecting something like Spore, but no... this is an abstract work in progress with controls you manipulate like a 3-year-old child, resulting in no apparent gameplay.”
- “The Karl Sims-esque evolution mechanics are present but not well integrated into the gameplay.”
- “A basic rule of video game design is to encourage the main gameplay flow of a title, which this game fails to do effectively.”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The music is minimalistic yet effectively unnerving, complementing the game's atmosphere well and enhancing the overall experience.
- “The minimal yet unnerving soundtrack.”
- “Music is good and I like the feel of the graphics.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game suffers from significant stability issues, often feeling buggy and outdated, reminiscent of an unstable Windows 98 program.
- “This 'game' looks and feels like a very buggy and very complicated Windows 98 program.”
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Users consistently report poor optimization, indicating performance issues and inefficient resource management.
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Users express feeling confused and overwhelmed, indicating the game evokes frustration rather than positive emotional engagement.