Little Hope
Developers | |
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Supermassive Games | |
Publishers | |
Bandai Namco Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 30, 2020 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 73 |
OpenCritic | 73 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | DLC |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Survival horror |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Horror, Supernatural |
Series | The Dark Pictures Anthology |
The Dark Pictures Anthology | |
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Man of Medan | 2019 |
Little Hope | 2020 |
House of Ashes | 2021 |
The Devil in Me | 2022 |
Little Hope is a survival horror game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
It is a sequel to Man of Medan released in 2019 as part of the The Dark Pictures Anthology. Little Hope features smoother dialogue transitions, faster walking animations and walking speed, and a wider range of camera usage compared to Man of Medan.
Announced in April 2020, Little Hope was planned to be released in summer 2020 but was delayed to fall 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.[1][2] It uses Unreal Engine 4 and was released on Steam on October 30, 2020.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GamersGate | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Curator's Cut | Available through pre-order only and set to become free for all users with a later update. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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Unlock | Curator's Cut unlocks an alternative story line. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\LittleHope\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1194630/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\LittleHope\Saved\SaveGames\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1194630/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Letterboxed to 21:9. See also Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | Pillarboxed to 21:9.[3] See Widescreen resolution for a workaround. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | [4] | ||
4K Ultra HD | Letterboxed to 21:9.[5] | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Fullscreen also available. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Scales with Texture Quality. Low (0x), Medium (2x), High (4x), Ultra (8x).[6] | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Available in 4 presets: Off, Medium, High, Ultra. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Toggle available to limit to 30 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | A toggle is available in the menu. |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Widescreen resolution
Use a Flawless Widescreen plugin to remove letterboxing or pillarboxing[citation needed] |
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Depth of field
Disable depth of field[7] |
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[SystemSettings] r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0 |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | From 0 to 100. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Separate options for camera, aiming, exploration and inspecting. Setting also affects controller input. |
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Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Some buttons cannot be remapped.[Note 3] | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Separate options for camera, aiming, exploration and inspecting. Setting also affects mouse input. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | Can be selected in the options menu to either show Xbox or DualShock prompts. | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | ||
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PlayStation button prompts | Can be selected in the options menu to either show Xbox or DualShock prompts. | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Separate sliders for Master, Music, Dialogue, SFX. | |
Surround sound | [8] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Arabic | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 5 | Co-op, Hot seat Playable through the "Movie Night" game mode with 2-5 players. |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 2 | Co-op |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | Ogg | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | 2020.06.2 |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-3470 AMD FX-8350 |
Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 80 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti AMD Radeon HD 8570 DirectX 12 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.24.3.0
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1194630/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1194630) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ Only buttons that are able to be remapped are : RB, RT, A,B,X,Y, Start and Back
References
- ↑ The Dark Pictures: Little Hope has been delayed - last accessed on 2020-10-31
- ↑ Announcing Little Hope, the Next Game in The Dark Pictures Anthology - last accessed on 2020-10-31
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- Tested using a custom resolution of 5760x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- Tested using a custom resolution of 2560x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- Tested using a custom resolution of 3840x2160.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- based off sg.TextureQuality=4 setting in GameUserSettings.ini and the official UE4 documentation.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
- Tested in 7.1 using SpecialK in conjunction with Razer Surround.