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Hope Lake

Far Mills · RunServer · 2016-06-03

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 20, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 547 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 547 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.87 at Steam (2023-02-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 25 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.872016-06-042026-07-272016-06-04 — best price $7.992016-08-26 — best price $4.992016-11-01 — best price $7.992017-01-02 — best price $7.992017-03-06 — best price $9.992017-06-19 — best price $7.992017-08-21 — best price $7.992017-10-24 — best price $9.992017-12-20 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $2.792018-10-26 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $2.392019-03-30 — best price $9.992019-08-05 — best price $7.992019-12-03 — best price $7.992020-04-06 — best price $3.992020-10-29 — best price $4.392020-12-22 — best price $3.592021-09-06 — best price $3.992021-12-22 — best price $2.392022-10-31 — best price $2.792022-12-23 — best price $1.992023-09-11 — best price $3.592023-12-07 — best price $9.992024-03-26 — best price $9.992024-08-26 — best price $7.992024-11-18 — best price $7.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $0.952026-03-16 — best price $7.992026-06-01 — best price $7.992026-07-27 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, Czech, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)82773%30

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CrimeIndieCasualPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveAtmosphericHidden ObjectPoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.