You are Hope

Dual Decade

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About this game

"You are Hope" is based on a PC game made by Jason Rohrer.
This app is not from him though, and he is not at all involved in making it.
Our game and online world are separate from his, and contain changes and exclusive extra contents which we have made ourselves.

Your goal is to rebuild civilization from scratch, together with other players and across countless generations.

You are born either as a baby to one of the other players, or as a young woman if no suitable mother is found. Every minute of real time is one year in the game and your maximum age is 60 years. A single life is limited, but the things you make during your lifetime are left for your children and grandchildren once you are gone. Try to make life a little bit easier for those who come after you, so your family line will have a chance to prosper for generations to come.

Sometimes you will spawn alone in the wilderness. You need to build a fire to stay warm and trap rabbits to get meat and furs for clothes. A sharp stone may be your best friend in the beginning. Try to find a good spot to settle and grow some food, because other players may soon arrive as your children, and will need to be taken care of until they are grown enough to help you.

Sometimes you will be born in a sprawling city, with farmers, cooks, blacksmiths, shepherds and hunters. There will be clothes and equipment ready for you, prepared by players who may be your grandparents or distant relatives. Maybe you will gather some friends and set out to start a settlement of your own, maybe you will inherit a farm job from your uncle, or maybe you will slay bears and wolves. The choices are endless, but remember: unless you leave the world better after you have lived than when you arrived, you have not really achieved anything.

Every life you play will put you in contact with new players. Some are more experienced than you, some are less. Some will teach you and some will learn from you. Some may even be disruptive to the civilization you are building, and will need to be dealt with accordingly. It will be up to you and your fellow players to shape the world for a brief moment in time, before the following generations take over.

After your game life is over, you can look at your family tree and see how your descendants are doing. You can take pride in each of your younger relatives who survives into adulthood and in each new generation that follows you, knowing that you helped make it happen.

In the 1.7.0 release we added the Family Ties IAP, which adds observer mode and family chronicles. It is completely optional and is not required to play the game.

Ratings and reviews

The tutorial is pretty bad. It doesn't actually teach you how yo make anything. The only decent tutorial is making fire. This makes it so a new player sent to the wild is unable to do much at all. The game also starves you during the tutorial as well, making it even more difficult to learn. I love the concept of this game, but it is frustrating being hours into it and still knowing nothing.

The game is very great for a pick up put down whenever you got time to kill, it may just be a remake of another game but it has its own charm still and feels cozy with a very Friendly community. That being said I wish there were more ways to know about what there is in the game instead of needing to make the item first or figure out the book which is a bit of a maze but still very useful.

I was hooked by the idea. Only to be disappointed by the controls. While they are intuitive, they ( the control setup ) seem alien to me. I couldn't quite get my character to do what I wanted. Add the time sensitivity, and the whole experience was frustrating. Sorry devs. You obviously worked hard, it's just not for me.

What's new

Fixed a bug with missing text in the Book of Hints