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Sea Hero Quest is an adventure game in which players can take the helm of a small ship, with which to try to hunt for elusive sea monsters. But this is not the most important part of the game. The most important thing is that while we play, we will be helping to fight against dementia, a disease that affects more than 45 million people. How is it possible? In short, the game will translate the information of the routes of our ship, in data that can help the investigation.Research aside, Sea Hero Quest is a very entertaining game. Players can move the boat on one side by pressing the left and right areas of the screen, and they can also accelerate by sliding up.

The objective of each level will be to cross all the buoys in the correct order, at the end of which we will normally find a monster. In fact, in some special levels we will have to hunt down this monster to ultimately photograph it.

SEA HERO QUEST VR is the world’s first VR game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia. One of the first symptoms of dementia is loss of navigational skills, and through our mobile game SEA HERO QUEST we have already gathered a substantial amount of data. Now science would love to deepen insights into how people navigate. In addition, the game succeeded where a conventional memory test failed, lead author Gillian Coughlan, MSc, from Norwich Medical School,.