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Hopeguard

Hopeguard is a third-person dark fantasy game about loss and acceptance. You have been chosen to eliminate the Dragon Queen, but the confrontation will not go as expected. Journey through caves, ruins, and forests to solve environmental puzzles and fulfill your quest -but with a new perspective.

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Developer
Hopesquad Studio
Publisher
UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Release
February 28, 2025
1 year and 154 days ago
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Very Positive65 reviews80.0%

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About the Game

Your order of knights has been slaying dragons for generations. Now, only the Queen remains and you have been chosen to eradicate her. However, at the peak of the sacred forge, the confrontation will not go as expected…

Hopeguard is a third-person dark fantasy game centered on the themes of loss and acceptance.

Journey through caves, ruins and forests to solve environmental puzzles and fulfill your quest—but with a new perspective.

YOUR CORNERED NEMESIS

As the last of her kind, the Dragon Queen fights with the desperation of a dying breed. Could it be that she resists so fiercely to protect something precious?

WITNESS THE REMNANTS OF WAR

The Hopeguard knights have paid a heavy price in their ancestral hunt. Finding an alternative path through the ruins won’t always be easy.

MY FAITHFUL SHIELD!

You are trained to survive and your shield has saved your life countless times.

THE SACRED CRYSTALS GUIDE THE WAY

Ancient, dormant magical mechanisms can be reactivated, but they will clearly need to be realigned.

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