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Latest revision as of 23:09, 14 August 2023

The Desolate Hope
The Desolate Hope cover
Developers
Scott Cawthon
Engines
Clickteam Fusion 2.5
Release dates
Windows April 29, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Side view, Bird's-eye view
Genres Platform, RPG
Series The Desolate
The Desolate
The Desolate Room 2007
The Desolate Hope 2012

The Desolate Hope is a singleplayer side view and bird's-eye view platform and RPG game in the The Desolate series.

The game was first released as freeware on the developer's website in April 2012. Later, the game was released on Steam through Steam Greenlight on May 5, 2014.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
A single DRM-free executable.
Windows

Game data

Game does not feature any configuration files.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\tdh*.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/298180/pfx/[Note 2]
Save can be under "tdh1-3.txt".

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game renders at a 1280x720 resolution and scales using bilinear interpolation.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter. Window is resizable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse, touch State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Only used for vendors and conflicts.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
Only available during gameplay.
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Audio must be modified using Windows' volume mixer.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References