The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

Skip · Narrative · 2020

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 39, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
5.1h
Value
$3.92/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
24.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.92
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
10,803 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 8570, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.

Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~24h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 5.1h main story
Holding it back
Value$3.92/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length5.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in February 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes ($29.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats The Quarry ($59.99, scores 38).

3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 339 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 5.1 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 4.7 times the campaign.

Players

23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1194630/the-dark-pictures-anthology-little-hope
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSupermassive Games
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe
GenreNarrative
Released2020