Don't Get Your Hopes Up overview

Overview

Don't Get Your Hopes Up comes from Krish Raghav and is published by Krish Raghav. It arrived on Steam on Sep 16, 2025, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Narrated Game Menus, and Playable without Timed Input. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Don't Get Your Hopes Up's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 26 August 2026 - 11:03:16 UTC, with a tracked peak near 7. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 97% positive across 58 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Don't Get Your Hopes Up is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Don't Get Your Hopes Up has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Don't Get Your Hopes Up overview details

Don't Get Your Hopes Up combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Don't Get Your Hopes Up is a short interactive comic about housing shortage and horror in architecture. Based on desperate apartment searches undertaken in 2022 and 2024, and drawing from a half decade of conversations about Amsterdam's housing crisis, the game moves between fiction, documentary, and social commentary. With disquiet and creeping unease, it dismantles the consoling fictions of abundance, and laments a feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. Short, emotional, and relatable (unless you're a landlord) Playtime: 40-60 minutes. Dive into a week of apartment hunting through the eyes of Krish and Yan, a couple looking to find an apartment in Amsterdam. Classic visual novel gameplay meets sparse, parallax comic book illustrations, with a few narrative and mechanical twists. View odd apartments and make tough decisions on renting and overbidding. Experience a moving story about precarity, solidarity, alienation, and the systems that keep us apart. A haunting post-punk soundscape Immerse yourself in a haunting, propulsive soundscape featuring music by Simon Frank and a special track by Rotterdam band Neighbours Burning Neighbours. A uniquely Amsterdam story that is resonant everywhere "EVERYTHING HAS TO CHANGE, FOR ANYTHING TO STAY THE SAME." Learn a wayward history of contemporary Amsterdam that is resonant globally. Play through a carefully constructed bricolage of references, ideas, speculations, and social commentary about the housing crisis that attempts to distill fleeting perceptions of an ambient present into coherent yet unsettling images.…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Don't Get Your Hopes Up is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Narrated Game Menus, and Playable without Timed Input, and is associated with Adventure and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 26 August 2026 - 11:03:16 UTC, a tracked peak of 7, and 97% positive reviews.

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