Hope Lake

The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree.

Hope Lake is a hidden object, adventure and casual game developed by Far Mills and Mysterytag and published by RunServer.
Released on June 03rd 2016 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, German, Czech, Polish and Russian.

It has received 502 reviews of which 365 were positive and 137 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 1.03€ on Steam and has a 87% discount.

The Steam community has classified Hope Lake into these genres:

Hidden Object Adventure Casual Indie Female Protagonist Point & Click Puzzle Mystery Detective Crime Atmospheric

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 1.4 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: Any

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Hope Lake is a captivating hidden object game that offers a gripping and dark story line. This is further enhanced by the numerous cut scenes which helps provide more intrigue into the story. My Grandmother use to play these type of games a lot, so I tend to have a soft spot for hidden object games and to be honest, this one would have stood out to her. Unlike many hidden object games that rely heavily and solely on finding hidden items as the core mechanic, Hope Lake blends it with a variety of puzzles, requiring you to gather items and objects throughout the game to unlock the puzzles and solve challenges to progress. The game's suspenseful narrative, centered around the mysterious disappearance of multiple female students, keeps you engaged, wanting more and eager to uncover the mystery. The only drawback was the mislabelling of items, which I am assuming was due to poor translation. This did make finding certain items challenging in a few stages. Overall, I loved this game and would highly recommend it to those who want a hidden object game but do not like the repetitive nature they can provide. This game has such a wide variety of different puzzles and objectives which keeps you constantly engaged and wanting more.

Oct. 2024

what can i say....the puzzles were lackluster. theres a lot of going back and forth, its frustrating. theres alot of eye spy. i mean it wasnt a bad game. it was unique. get it on sale. yeah im at a loss trying to write a review on this game.

Oct. 2024

There is an translation error in the fountain HOG with the word "trumpet" given to a pipe. Other than that I enjoy the game a lot.

July 2024

I first have to say that i never encountered such a bad translation for the HOS were a key is a wrench and a wrench is a key. And this is only one example for it. The game itself was pretty ok, sadly it had a few moments where you needed a tool that you had a bit earlier. Most of the minigames were really easy to handle, there was only one annoying puzzle that i skipped. The story was pretty nice and the overall graphics were really nice and cool. There were very few cutscenes, which was a bit sad, but not really bad. All in one a pretty nice game, if you dont look at the HOS translation for many objects, which i pretty much liked. I can really recommend it.

Jan. 2024

It's amazing! Hope Lake has a great and interesting story, and the atmosphere and soundtrack were enough to give me chills! It is the best hidden object game I've ever played! It was somewhat difficult because I had to go in and out of the entire big and wide map to find every clues and solve every puzzles, so it was so exciting. Also, the atmosphere of the mystery-thriller genre was very well realized. The difficulty of the puzzles was not easy, so it had the effect of increasing players interest of the game. That is, It is a somewhat difficult and complex game compared to other simple and easy hidden object games, making it easy for players to get into its gameplay. However, I don't know if the developers are clumsy in using English, but I am a little bit embarrassed because there were too many errors in usage of words and sentences. In addition, there are parts that are a bit less realistic and probable in the story composition. For example, there are parts in which an unarmed female detective boldly enters the house even though she saw a suspect is in there, and she knew she might be in danger. But the suspect continuously just runs away from the protagonist. Also, there were some other scenes that were not scientific and realistic. Nevertheless, it's a bit unreasonable to expect the full realism of such a story from a hidden object game, so I'd like to give it a good review. Personally, I think Hope Lake is a great game! If you buy it at a discount, you can enjoy the best.

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-87% 7.99€ 1.03€

6.9

365

137

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Developer

Far Mills, Mysterytag

Publisher

RunServer

Release 03 Jun 2016

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