Lost Horizon (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Animation Arts |
| Publisher(s) | Deep Silver |
| Distributor(s) | SouthPeak Games (North America) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | United Kingdom: September 17, 2010 Download: August 2010 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| GameRankings | 81.10% |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
Lost Horizon is a historical point-and-click adventure video game developed by Animation Arts and published by Deep Silver in 2010 for Microsoft Windows. On October 8, 2013, Animation Arts announced that a sequel for Lost Horizon is in development. Lost Horizon 2 was released on October 2, 2015 and it takes place 20 years after the events of the first game.
In 1936, in the Khembalung Valley in Tibet, a detachment of British soldiers, sent out on an expedition by the British government to map the country, are ambushed by soldiers of the Third Reich at a monastery when they attempt to aid the monks there. Richard Weston, the son of the governor in Hong Kong and the expedition's leader, loses most of his men in the fighting while protecting the head monk as he leads them to a secret chamber, including Thomas Finch, who becomes separated from both Richard and the monk when the chamber's door seals shut. Before he dies, the monk hands Richard a key and instructs him that it must not be found. Richard discovers that the chamber contains carvings and much more that are not Asian in origin. Despite what he sees, he works to find a way out, and uses the key on a stone pedestal in the chamber, creating a portal. Richard vanishes with the key when he passes through it, with the portal closing behind. A few hours later, when the Germans have finished securing the monastery, their leader, Hanna von Hagenhild, a German countess and a scientist in the Thule Society, orders that the expeditions' source for the maps of the region in Hong Kong is to be eliminated along with any notes, with Triads used to do the dirty work, in order to avoid further disruptions in their work.
A week later in Hong Kong, Fenton Paddock, the pilot of a cargo plane and formerly of the British Army after being dishonourably discharged, after narrowly escaping death at the hand of the Tong branch of the Triads, after interfering in their smuggling business, is summoned to Lord Weston, Hong Kong's governor. Fenton finds himself hired to look into Richard's disappearance along with the rest of his team as an outsider, as the British government can't afford to do so without causing a diplomatic incident with China. Seeking maps of Tibet from his former employee, Yen Wuang, along with his notes on an expedition he took in the area, Fenton encounters his niece, Kim, while searching for them, before being forced to take her with him when the Tong pursue them for the maps and notes. While en route to Tibet, Fenton explains to Kim why he was removed from the army, and why he is heading to Tibet. Before reaching a village on their route, a German fighter plane shoots them down. After recovering from the crash, the pair look to Yen's notes for a safe place to rest from the cold, learning that he had visited the region with a British explorer, a Professor Arthur Hayes, in 1922, seeking a monastery supposed to be a mere myth. Determined to find it but noticing a truck driving through the mountains, the pair discover a German encampment near to the monastery, and rescue Thomas in the process. When the pair make their way into the monastery and the secret chamber within it, Fenton and Kim learn that Richard disappeared through a gate within it, and that to get in themselves, they need a second key that is hidden in another part of the world. Hagenhild, however, captures them both, with plans to pursue Hayes who holds an item that is needed to find the second key on a special map in their possession. Fenton manages to escape, but loses Kim in the process of trying to rescue her, believing her to be dead.
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