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Forgotten Hope

Black Hammer Studios · Games by IGE · 2021-05-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 12, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Forgotten Hope is a short, single-player narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers.

89%
positive of 93 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$3.99
steam price (US)

"What do you do when you are feeling alone? Rejected and feeling hopeless? When you feel like your life is not worth fighting for. And that it’s time to end it all?" Forgotten Hope is a short, first-person narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers. Our protagonist lives in a rural village, and she wakes up in a cave with no memory of who she is and how she got there. She needs to find her way out of the cave and walk around the countryside to find places to regain her lost memories - and figure out what e(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (40 reviews).
  • · Top 65% of 12,500 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 93 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
393920212025Week of 2021-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

3DCasualLinearMysteryAdventureNarrationMinimalistStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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