I’ve spent the last week clawing through this update, and I need to talk about it. For the uninitiated, Hounds of the Meteor is a parser-driven, text-based horror-romance (yes, you read that right) set aboard a failing deep-space research vessel. You play as a disgraced signal analyst assigned to a dying star designated “The Meteor.” Your job? Decode the psychic howls emanating from its accretion disk. The twist? Those howls are answering back .
January 6, 2025
If you’ve been anywhere near the indie interactive fiction or cult narrative game spaces lately, you’ve probably heard the howl. It’s low, resonant, and carries a strange metallic echo—like a hunting horn mixed with a dial-up modem. Hounds of the Meteor -v2024-12-29- By DogFactory
The game’s signature mechanic is the “Empathy Protocol”—a slider that lets you interpret the star’s signals as either , lamentations , or courtship calls . Your choice literally rewrites the ship’s logs, the crew’s dialogue, and even the layout of the corridors. What’s New in v2024-12-29? This isn’t a simple bug-fix patch. DogFactory has effectively released a director’s cut that changes the game’s emotional core. Here are the headline features: I’ve spent the last week clawing through this
🐕🐕🐕🐕 (4/5 Space Dogs) One dog deducted because the inventory system still eats your lighter fluid every time. Have you played the new build? Did you pet the Rust-Hound or run from it? Let me know in the comments—just don’t type the star’s true name. We’ve agreed not to do that anymore. Find more from DogFactory at [their itch.io page] (assuming it exists, or will exist, or has always existed). Decode the psychic howls emanating from its accretion disk
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