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Hoping this Finds You Well
An experiment in letter writing, meant to evoke the distinctly sweet queerness of Victorian and Edwardian literature. Follow the correspondence of two professors, in the months before one of them makes a decision he'll never be able to take back.
What players say
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“Hoping this Finds You Well is a short, literature-inspired visual novel that turns written correspondence into the heart of both its storytelling and interaction. Developed and published by Alexis Royce, the game follows two professors whose relationship develops through letters…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedAchievement stats
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Latest official news
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Hoping this Finds You Well now available with Achievements and en Español!
We're espero que se encuentre bien - Hoping has been updated to ver 1.6.6, which includes a Spanish translation! You'll also be able to unlock one Steam achievement for reaching "that point" in the ga
Simplified Chinese Translation Available!
Hello everyone! Royce here with an update to version 1.6.1! There are a couple tiny bug fixes, but there's just the one big change worth talking about: Hoping This Finds You Well now has a Simplified
Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Pirates · Cute · Hand-drawn · Romance · Funny · Dating Sim · Historical · LGBTQ+ · Stylized · Magic · Text-Based (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain |
| Achievements | 1 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.6 Ghz Quad Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Storage: 1 GB available space