History VideoGame / TheDesolateHope

* {{Cap}}: '''999,999,999 bits.''' Yep, that's just one away from a billion.

* Cap: '''999,999,999 bits.''' Yep, that's just one away from a billion.

* BenevolentAI: Despite the almost certainty that humanity doesn't care about them anymore, most of the Derelicts are still trying to do their jobs, abet in different ways. But they're still polite to you and say nothing but praises for Coffee, so no [[AIIsACrapshoot crapshooting]] here.

* PosthumousCharacter: Amos. [[spoiler: You can retrieve a chip off of him to help you in battles, however.]]

* DeathSeeker: Mirad is one, though replace 'death' with 'sleep mode', though it's the same to her. She explains that she can't activate her sleep mode because the people that made the Derelicts made sure that they couldn't activate it until they fulfill their mission, [[HumansAreBastards even making loopholes in their programming to make sure.]] Mirad would wish nothing more than to be able to rest once and for all. [[spoiler: She gets her wish at the end of the game.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Amos.

Available on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/298180/ Steam]] right now.

'''WARNING: This game features bright, flashing lights in its boss fights. If you have a record of seizures due to this, please for the love of God talk to a doctor before playing this game.'''

* PosthumousCharacter:Amos.

* PowersAsPrograms: Used literally, since you fight in cyberspace. Every buff, attack, and status inflection is a program; for example, the power that a boss uses to fill your screen with static is called 'Hackworm', and one that stuns your characters is called 'Sleep Mode'.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While it is undeniable that Coffee is a jerk to you (reprimanding you when you decode any post-boss data package and threatening you with deactivation), you do have to understand that he's in a sticky situation here: the mission he's on has been abandoned, he's literally the only one that can fix the Derelicts physical bodies, he has to fight off a virus that seems virtually unstoppable, ''and'' the power to the whole base is going to run out in about 15 days. So yeah, there's a lot of pressure on this guy. But still, the Derelicts tell you that he's their closest friend, and one of his first lines is a request to not kill the spider he befriended, Siegfried. [[spoiler: And his ultimate goal is to let an experimented on embryo live a normal, if simulated, life. Even if it means he'll most likely die in the process.]]

Created by Scott Cawthon, which a majority of you will know as the creator of {{VideoGame/Five Nights at Freddys}}, The Desolate Hope is a Metroidvania/Boss Game/Top-Down View Shooter/...well, it's [[GameplayRoulette a lot of things]], but its main focus is on the boss battles.

* PowersAsPrograms: Used literally, since you fight in cyberspace. Every buff, attack, and status inflection is a program; for example, the power that a boss uses to fill your screen with static is called 'Hackworm', and one that stuns your characters is called 'Sleep Mode'.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://the-desolate-hope.wikia.com/wiki/The_Desolate_Hope_Wiki Here you go.]]

* TheWikiRule:[[http://the-desolate-hope.wikia.com/wiki/The_Desolate_Hope_Wiki Here you go.]]

* PowersAsPrograms: Used literally, since you fight in cyberspace. Every buff, attack, and status inflection is a program; for example, the power that a boss uses to fill your screen with static is called 'Hackworm', and one that stuns your characters is called 'Sleep Mode'.

Created by Scott Cawthon, which a majority of you will know as the creator of {{VideoGame/Five Nights at Freddy's}}, The Desolate Hope is a Metroidvania/Boss Game/Top-Down View Shooter/...well, it's [[GameplayRoulette a lot of things]], but its main focus is on the boss battles.

Created by Scott Cawthon, which a majority of you will know as the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, The Desolate Hope is a Metroidvania/Boss Game/Top-Down View Shooter/...well, it's [[GameplayRoulette a lot of things]], but its main focus is on the boss battles.

* DoAndroidsDream: Malenz wonders about this, but also manages to ''[[InvertedTrope invert]]'' it too. She wonders if humans really has souls, but really so she can build a ''simulated afterlife'' for them. She tried making her own humans with emotions and thought, but they can barely last five seconds before going back into the code again.

'''WARNING: This game features bright, flashing lights in its boss fights. If you have a record of seizures due to this, please for the love of God talk to a doctor before playing this game'''

* DoAndroidsDream?: Malenz wonders about this, but also manages to ''[[InvertedTrope invert]]'' it too. She wonders if humans really has souls, but really so she can build a ''simulated afterlife'' for them. She tried making her own humans with emotions and thought, but they can barely last five seconds before going back into the code again.

* PowersAsPrograms: Used literally, since you fight in cyberspace. Every buff, attack, and status inflection is a program; for example, the power that a bosses uses to fill your screen with static is called 'Hackworm', and one that stuns your characters is called 'Sleep Mode'.

But all this is really just to prepare you for the boss battles, where digital representations of the bots come to battle a super-powerful aspect of the virus. It plays like a fast-paced JRPG battle, where you select options using your mouse. To prepare for these battles, you buy upgrades at the game's merchants using the bits you gather. As the bosses get harder and harder, you have to keep on grinding a grinding in order to keep up. Oh, and you only have a fortnight before the station permanently runs out of power. Are you the last hope in this desolate station? Only you can prove that...

* ArtificalHuman: Bio-Beta wants to recreate a better humanity (he has no idea if they're all dead or not, but by the time we get to meet him he really doesn't care if they are). Unfortunately, he only has two body samples to work with, so he's having...a little trouble with that. Now, where did that dang sample 217 go off to...

** If anything, Malenz can even be thought as a sort of [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of 'why' dark is no longer evil (or, in his case, realist): He was suppose to be the realist of the group, starting out with simulated miners mining simulated ore. But years of no contact with Earth and the virus ravaging at his systems made him realize that [[DespairEventHorizon all life is meaningless, because to him, all life wants you to die]]. So he retreated into a little fantasy world, like a little kid playing with toys, and doesn't really care if the virus destroys him or not. [[TheWoobie Poor guy]].

* Handwave: Why are there toys, paintings, snow globes, and clocks all over the ground right outside Lun Infinus? Because the last probes that humanity sent to the station were full of them. Why were they full of objects normally useless to simulation bots? Uhhhhh....

You control Coffee's body (NOT Coffee himself, he's devoting his CPU to much more important things, like flagging where the virus is). You start in Lun Infinus itself, and have to go inside each Derelicts' room in order to download yourself into their simulation. At first, you only have access to Malenz, but after you defeat your first boss virus then you get free access to the other robots: Mirad, Alphus, and Bio-Beta (Don't bother going into Amos' room, he broke down before he was able to get his simulation up. Doesn't stop his body from draining power though...)

* DoAndroidsDream?: Malenz wonders about this, but also manages to ''[[InvertedTrope invert]]'' it too. She wonders if humans really has souls, but really so she can build a ''simulated afterlife'' for them. So tried making her own humans with emotions and thought, but they can barely last five seconds before going back into the code again.