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The Desolate Hope
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 unin
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-08-12)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“this guy is great at making robots, i hope he makes a horror game with some”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“SCOTTTTTTTT!!!!!! REMAKE THIS GAME, AND MY MONEY IS YOURS!!”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“You can TELL this was made by Scott. Hell I mean even the robots you can tell Scott MADE THEM. This was a very interesting game that Scott made, I feel like if this game got popular and not FNAF then definitely we would be a very VERY different timeline that tbh... I wouldn't…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Adventure · Free to Play · Robots · Indie · Platformer · Action · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · 2D · Horror · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB Storage: 1 GB available space