The Wild Detective: The Hound of the Foggy City game cover

The Wild Detective: The Hound of the Foggy City CD Key

Play as a private detective in Ferrogris, a fog-shrouded, steampunk city of animal citizens. Gather clues, scrutinize evidence, and spot lies through dialogue to build a logical case. Solve surreal mysteries that probe human nature, from murders to art thefts, beneath neon-smog and shadows.

Current Lowest Price

Eneba logo
Visit store

Release Date

Publisher/Developer

ZombieDogStudio, ColaCatGames

Reviews

Steam: -
Metacritic: -

The Wild Detective: The Hound of the Foggy City description

The Wild Detective: The Hound of the Foggy City

In a city swallowed by fog, you step into the pawprints of a private detective who lives for truth. This is a pure, logic-driven experience where patience guides every observation. At crime scenes lit by gaslamps, you examine clues in minute detail: a faint footprint, the shape of a wound, an instrument that vanished from the scene—no hint is too small to matter.

Discernment is a game in itself. You talk to a diverse cast of animal citizens, from wary merchants to guarded nobles, each with memories that can mislead or betray. Some answers bend under pressure, others hide behind ambiguity. Your challenge is to detect inconsistencies, weigh motives, and connect fragments into a believable, unbroken chain of events that reveals the truth beneath the fog.

Welcome to Ferrogris, the Fog City, a strange world where fur and gears coexist. Zebras from the Red Earth, roosters from the Western Kingdoms, polar bears from the Icecrown Plains gather to chase a shifting dream of power and progress. The city is both promise and temptation—where the first stock was issued, the first steam engine roared to life, and the first electric light bulb brightened a night that never truly ends.

These mysteries feel strange yet human. Why did the principal ballerina fall to her death in the dead of night? Why are renowned paintings stolen one after another? Why did a famed art collector vanish without a trace? When the nobles of the Upper Council stay silent, one wonders whether the culprit is a part of human nature, a collapse of morality, or perhaps society itself masking the crime.

In this case-driven world, you assemble evidence into a logical sequence that can stand up to scrutiny. Explore scenes, collect testimony, and log every clue in a case file, then confront suspects in careful, calculated dialogue. The truth you uncover will not only expose the criminal but illuminate the hidden mechanics of a society hovering between innovation and illusion.

The atmosphere blends noir tension with steampunk wonder: brass globes, gearwork, smoky skylines, and the steady clack of a meticulous logbook. The soundscape rewards careful listening and patient deduction. Here, justice is never simple, and every choice carries moral weight in a city where progress can mask a darker truth.

Private and immersive, The Hound of the Foggy City invites you to trace the scent of truth through fog, steam, and shadows until it leads you to a verdict that reshapes Ferrogris.