Don't Get Your Hopes Up
A short interactive comic turning apartment hunting into psychological horror
Krish Raghav · Released Sep 16, 2025
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 95% of 73
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Jul 11, 2025
What is Don't Get Your Hopes Up?
This free, single-player visual novel follows Krish and Yan through a week of searching for a home in Amsterdam. You view unusual apartments and make decisions about renting and overbidding, with the story presented through sparse comic-book illustrations. A playthrough takes 40–60 minutes.
For you if...
- +you like philosophical stories about social and political issues
Not for you if...
- −you prefer action to reading and making narrative choices
What players say
95% of 73 reviews are positive
Players praise the writing and soundtrack, with several saying the story reflects their own struggles to find housing, including outside the Netherlands.
Screenshots and trailer
Don't Get Your Hopes Up system requirements
Minimum: DirectX 11 GPU, 2 GB RAM, 0.5 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
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- OS
- 7 or higher
- Processor
- 2.0 Ghz 64-bit Intel-compatible
- Graphics
- OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Does Don't Get Your Hopes Up have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Don't Get Your Hopes Up run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 9
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Don't Get Your Hopes Up use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam