Games Like Hope Deferred

Hope Deferred

Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.

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Psychopomp

98% 👍 OF 7.7K
About This Game

Your entire life has been a lie. There are catacombs under every home and building, stretching down for miles. Something calls you deeper into the labyrinth. Delve into the depths, and discover the monstrosities below.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Hidden Catacombs
  • …Fight With A Hammer
  • …Look, Speak, Touch
REL Jan 30, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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DarkEnd

52% 👍 OF 355
About This Game

Conquer the ever changing dungeons of DarkEnd and save the fall of humanity! Choose your heroes and venture into a world filled with numerous treasures, mysterious secrets and discover a haunting past in this 10+ hours of retro 2D Dungeon-Crawling!

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Psychopomp GOLD

98% 👍 OF 5.3K
About This Game

Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Surreal Catacombs
  • …Smash Threats With Hammers
  • …Solve Maze Puzzles
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Darkwood

95% 👍 OF 24K
About This Game

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …lock yourself in a lit room with three lamps, then watch the house shake, lights flicker, furniture slide around, and the door slam shut.
  • …set chain traps at your windows and beat an intruder to death while it hangs there, caught like it's on a leash.
  • …eat odd mushrooms and tainted meat for strange powers, then deal with nausea and hallucinations that might be real clues.
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The Witch's House MV

95% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Clue-Led Riddles
  • …Evade Lethal Traps
  • …Explore a Changing Manor
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Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo

97% 👍 OF 2.4K
About This Game

A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Guide Charlotte the Puppet
  • …Explore a Surreal School
  • …Solve Strange Puzzles
REL Nov 21, 2016 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Billionaire Lovers

95% 👍 OF 3.8K
About This Game

You’re a broke college graduate. Your rich, distant uncle has just shown up and given you 100 million dollars! And right at this moment, four handsome men come into your life. Could this be… the romance you’ve been waiting for!? But wait, there’s something behind their smiles that says otherwise…

Player reviews say you can…

  • …replay the story and have the entire experience change on your next run, revealing new scenes and structure.
  • …get hit with a gacha-style pressure sequence where the game glitches, you refuse the terms, and a bunny taunts your bank balance.
  • …inherit 100 million dollars and get pulled into a romance with four men who feel wrong from the start.
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my eyes deceive

80% 👍 OF 969
About This Game

Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Repeat Shelter Chores
  • …Explore Nightmares
  • …Choose Whether to Take Pills
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OFF

96% 👍 OF 3.5K
About This Game

“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …walk into a room of a sick child's paintings, realize your whole quest was built on his condition, and still have to confront and end him.
  • …poison bosses so hard you can win fights by keeping the status up.
  • …hunt down six secret Zodiac bosses that unlock after you purify zones, turning each "cleared" area into a new trail of tougher fights.
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Illusion Carnival

98% 👍 OF 7.4K
About This Game

A lost soul wanders through a whimsical, eerie pop-up book like amusement park. Dive into fun-filled stages, encounter unique characters, fend off spirit erosion, and uncover the park's hidden secrets. The enchanting yet dark Illusion Carnival begins now.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Pop-Up Stages
  • …Solve Carnival Riddles
  • …Fight with Papercraft
REL Jul 11, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →