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HOPE: Survival

Top-down co-op zombie survival for 1–8 players. Everything here downloads without sign-up.

Title: HOPE: Survival
Developer: Thirst Games Studio
Genre: Top-down co-op survival
Players: Solo or online co-op, 1–8 players
Platform: PC (Steam)
Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Release date: TBA
Price: TBA
Steam: Store page
Trailer: Watch on YouTube
Community: Discord
Press contact: Email

In one sentence

HOPE: Survival is a top-down co-op survival game for 1–8 players where the infected follow the noise you make — and when night falls, the horde comes for your base.

Short description

The world is broken. Humanity is fading. But hope still remains. Scavenge a quarantined island alone or with up to seven friends and turn your base into the last warm light in a dying world. Every gunshot draws the infected in. Some nights, the horde comes for the base. Hold until sunrise — every morning is a small victory.

Long description

HOPE: Survival is a top-down survival game set on a quarantined island, played solo or in online co-op for up to eight players.

Noise drives everything. Gunshots, explosions and the machines running at your base draw the infected in, so every fight trades firepower for attention. A thrown stone pulls a crowd away; one careless burst brings the whole street down on the squad.

Days are for scavenging and building: crafting stations, a furnace, extractors, garden beds, gates and traps. Some nights, the horde comes — each one hits harder than the last and grows with the group. Survival goes past a health bar: hunger, thirst, fatigue, temperature, bleeding, broken bones, and food that spoils.

Fight up close with melee combos or at range with firearms, a bow, grenades and molotovs. Fall in the field and you rise as one of the infected, still carrying your gear. Notes scattered across the island tell what happened here.

Key features

Solo or online co-op for 1–8 players.
Noise as a core mechanic: gunshots, explosions and machines attract the infected; stones lure them away.
Night hordes: they don't come every night, but each one hits harder than the last and grows with the squad.
Base building: crafting stations, furnace, extractors, garden beds, gates and traps.
Deep survival: hunger, thirst, fatigue, temperature, bleeding, broken bones, food spoilage.
Melee combos, firearms, bow, grenades and molotovs.
Fall in the field and rise as one of the infected — carrying your gear.
Environmental storytelling through notes; snow, fog, rain and storms.