Navigation skill as a
brain health metric.
Getting lost is one of the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer’s, yet it’s not actively measured.
We’re living the longest lives in human history, but at the same time offloading brain functions to AI and GPS.
Sea Hero Quest builds a personal record of your navigation skill with daily games.
Daily: You simply navigate by sailing a boat through maps designed with neuroscientists.
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Every 14 days: Earn a brain animal that reflects your navigation score.
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14Over time: Track your trend with a navigation score normalised against players worldwide.
Every game also adds valuable data to brain health research.
Every 2 minutes of play gives researchers the equivalent of 5 hours of lab data, powering next-generation discoveries about the brain.
Today’s game is built on the foundations of the original Sea Hero Quest, a citizen science success story where 4.3 million people came together, across 192 countries, to help scientists fight dementia.
Sea Hero Quest has now helped researchers publish 32 papers and has supported more than 200 studies across the globe to make new discoveries in Alzheimer’s, amnesia, aphantasia, rare diseases and many other conditions.
Already in the beta? Our WhatsApp community is where beta players share feedback and help shape the game.
We’re shaping the game for new players together with the people already playing it.
We know some of you want to dive into the research and get into the depths of how spatial navigation is an early indicator of brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.
We’re keeping a record of interesting publications and preprints on our papers page.
Co-developed with leading neuroscientists.
Sea Hero Quest is shaped with a panel of cognitive neuroscientists, behavioural researchers and clinicians from University of St Andrews, UCL, and CNRS, and an active network of researchers globally.
Hugo Spiers, Prof
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Vice Dean for Enterprise at University College London (UCL).
Antoine Coutrot, Tenured Researcher
CNRS researcher in computational, cognitive, and behavioural neuroscience.
James Ainge, Prof
Head of the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at University of St Andrews.
University College London (UCL)
Behavioural Neuroscience & Spatial Cognition
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Applied Machine Learning & Spatial Cognition
University of St Andrews
Psychology & Neuroscience
Understanding episodic memory through the lifespan
Made possible by
Sea Hero Quest has been supported by various stakeholders at different stages in its journey. As of today, GLITCHERS support the vast majority of the game’s continued design & development as a brain health metric.
Alzheimer’s Research UK
Past research support
Deutsche Telekom
Project initiator
GLITCHERS
IP owner, original designer, developer & publisher