The Desolate Hope
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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
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Steam | A single DRM-free executable. |
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 | 8 |
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
- ↑ 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). - ↑ Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (298180) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.