HOPE LEFT ME

HOPE LEFT ME

Worth it · Short indie · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.38.

Length
0.5h
Value
$3.98/hr
Reviews
96% positive
It needs 31% off ($1.38) to be a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
1042 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 2
Reviews
96%
933 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: Any, 317 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.
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
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ 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
Refunds2 of 328 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

August 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $1.59. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 4 years tracked here, most recently in November 2023. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 149 weeks ago. $1.38 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Carson House ($3.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats What Comes After ($4.99, scores 67).

Of the 328 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 751 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 91 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

76% start to 53% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

This Visual Novel is beautiful and bittersweet, if you like philosophy I would definitively recommend! Both characters are also incredibly likeable and the artstyle is very nice to look at, the OST is amazing as well and I definitely recommend the LP cut over the VN cut, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give this Visual Novel a try if you are interested or are willing to try it or just are getting to Visual Novels because it's...
EvidentlyScrambledRecommendedafter 4.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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HOPE LEFT ME scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2268470/hope-left-me
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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 28, price as of Oct 2.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAstrophysics
Publisher.orphans
GenreShort indie
Released2023
Achievements5