Hope Lake
Skip · Narrative · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 2.8h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 548 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
83% start to 63% rarestNo 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
Kicked the water, barn popped out of bubbles. Built a bridge, fell, turned into frog, wife digs it. Now nightly croon country quacks. Eight lilypads out of ten, dive in smiling!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A good simple game, which you be like. For big sale you can take her! This a little history about big problem, which can be played with you angry joke. Than need be a kind and good persons! Be careful with your actions always!
Well, it's 2026, and apparently the only fix for a game-breaking bug reported TEN FREAKIN' YEARS AGO, hours into the game, is to restart the entire game from the start. So yeah, don't buy it unless you enjoy frustration and rage. What an absolute waste of time. Bug = there's a chest that has two locks. You put in the keys, aaand then you can't select it to open it, because the place where you click to back out of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hope Lake scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/485690/hope-lakeReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.