Hopetown

Hopetown is a psychological RPG driven by story, depth, and danger. It’s also a game of wonder and color, where beauty can bloom in the rubble — and even the darkest moments hold flickers of light. You play a volatile journalist exiled to a mining town on the brink: of collapse, of reckoning, of something stranger than either. As you chase the story of your career (or its last gasp), it starts to merge with the story of your life, offering a chance to re-write who you are.

Just do it quick, before the end of the world.

A Place of Ruin and Wonder

Step into a world like ours, turned sideways — brought to life in a hand-crafted, painterly style. From glittering fields to mineshafts humming with myth and memory, this is a world of uncanny beauty, flickering tension, and layered histories — where every detail tells a story, and nothing is quite as it seems.

Everyone Has a Story

From miners to footballers, old friends to unreliable allies, the town’s denizens are richly drawn and quietly dangerous. Everyone carries secrets, contradictions, and beliefs — shaped by the world, and ready to shape it in return.

Conversations aren’t just for information — they’re how you navigate, connect, provoke, manipulate, and protect. What you say matters. What you don’t say might matter more.

Words Are Your Weapons 

Journalism isn't just what you do — it's how you'll play. Will you throw yourself into chaos as a Gonzo, turn sentiment into madness as a Conspiracist, bloviate your way through it all as a Pundit... or mix your own incendiary signature cocktail?

The truth is yours to make. Just be ready to live with it. Words are your weapons — and they might be your salvation, or your damnation.

The World as You See It

The world doesn’t just respond to your choices, it reflects your mind. This is Psychogeography: a narrative system where the boundary between inner self and outer world is porous. As you search for truth — out there and within — the town bends with you, warping around your beliefs, your instincts, your way of seeing.

What’s real is up for negotiation. And the map is written in your image.

Everything Is Connected

Every choice is a thread in a tangled web — tug one, and the whole tapestry shifts. Small moments ripple outward, reshaping lives, places, and possibilities far beyond their origin.

Everything transforms everything else, and so everything matters. Change the world, and you change yourself. Change yourself — and you might change everything. Just be careful what you set in motion.