The Desolate Hope overview

Overview

The Desolate Hope comes from Scott Cawthon and is published by Scott Cawthon. It arrived on Steam on May 5, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Desolate Hope's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 20:49:03 UTC, with a tracked peak near 29. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 92% positive across 1,780 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Desolate Hope is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Desolate Hope has sold up to 88,121 units and has 121 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $236,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Desolate Hope overview details

The Desolate Hope combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

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 levels of mobility in the case of emergency or need for relocation. Each of these Derelicts was to formulate their own plan for colonization based on thousands of hours of simulations. Given the amount of time that has passed however, the simulations have become very elaborate and bizarre. Meanwhile however, a mysterious computer virus has emerged. The virus of unknown origins has been slowly ravaging the Derelicts. Because of this, more and more CPU processing power has been needed for anti-virus measures, leaving less power for the simulations. Coffee is the last mobile resident of the station, a small service robot who spends his days keeping the station and the Derelicts operational as they perform their daily tasks. Since CPU power is slim, Coffee has been cutting corners to find ways around the virus. By using small subsystems and less vital CPU's scattered through the station in lesser devices, Coffee has designed a line of digital helpers, each simply called a D-Co, or "Digital Co…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Desolate Hope is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 20:49:03 UTC, a tracked peak of 29, and 92% positive reviews.

Overview tags

RPGAdventureFree to PlayRobotsIndiePlatformerActionSci-fiSingleplayer2DHorrorAtmosphericGreat SoundtrackSurrealStory Rich

Support and legal notes

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