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Dark Hope: A Puzzle Adventure

Dark Hope is a puzzle adventure game set in a steampunk world where electricity started and ended its existence with the light bulb. Towering clockwork puzzles and archaic symbols cover the halls. Strange rifts of light span the hallways.

Release
January 17, 2020
6 years and 280 days ago
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About the Game

Dark Hope is a puzzle adventure game set in a steampunk world where electricity started and ended its existence with the light bulb.

Strange rifts of light span the shadowed hallways.

Something lurks in the dark.

Your only hope of freedom is to find the truth about this strange abandoned facility.

You wake up in a hallway: No one is around. Where the exit once was is now darkness, and smoke fills the air...

Where are you?

...Where did everyone go?


The vast majority of the puzzles are environmental mechanical puzzles and discovering clues as to the nature of this strange facility.

Features
  • A first-person adventure full of environmental mechanical puzzles.
  • Discover clues as you solve puzzles to uncover the true nature of this strange facility.
  • Books! Tons and tons of books filled with lab notes, plans, and clues.
  • Buttons to push and valves to turn- In Dark Hope, the environment is the puzzle.
  • A challenging, atmospheric puzzle-adventure for those who don’t want to be spoon-fed.
  • Eerie and haunting atmosphere- What happened here? What will happen if you don’t figure that out?
  • Warning: Bring your own notebook and pen!

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