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The Desolate Hope

Scott Cawthon · 2014-05-05

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 25, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.

The Desolate Hope is an Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game released in 2014, priced at free-to-play, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 1819 reviews) and an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000.

6
playing now
93%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable. Developed during an age of ambition and wealth, the project was quickly abandoned when interest faded in the following years. The last transmission from Earth occurred more than thirty years ago. The Lun Infinus station contained five sentient computers, Derelicts, built with certain lev(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Dormant
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · No new reviews since week of 2025-02-01.
  • · Top 11% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2014-12-18) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120182026Week of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGIndieActionHorrorRobotsSci-fiSurrealAdventurePlatformer

Census log

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

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