The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is an adventure developed by Supermassive Games, released 30 October 2020 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 5.3 hrs to finish.
What The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is an adventure game developed by Supermassive Games and released in 2020. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Four college students and their professor are traveling by bus when a forced detour and a sudden crash strand them on the outskirts of Little Hope, an abandoned town in Massachusetts smothered in thick fog. With their driver missing and no way to call for help, the group ventures into the deserted streets, where they meet a wary local who warns them the place has long been empty. As they search for a way out, the fog repeatedly pulls them into visions of the town's 17th century past, where a manipulative reverend and a frightened young girl set the Andover and Salem witch trials in motion. The travelers come to realize that the accused townsfolk are eerie doppelgangers of themselves, and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 212 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD FX-8350, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 8570. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope launched on 30 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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