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Action indie game HOPE 01 was released in 2026, developed and self-published by bending-boy-games. It launched at $11.99 and has 135 Steam reviews, with 93% positive feedback earning a Very Positive rating—a strong reception from a modest review base.
Overview
HOPE 01 is a 2026 Action game developed by Bending Boy Games and published by Bending Boy Games. On Steam it has gathered 209 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Bending Boy Games with publisher Bending Boy Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6,000 to 15,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, HOPE 01 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
209
Positive
95%
Steam appid
4562940
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.06K to 15K
units (median: 10K)
≈ $43K to $100K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for HOPE 01 at roughly 6,000 to 15,000 copies, with a median around 10,000, derived from its 209 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $72K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
6 observed days · window low $10.79Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.79 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $10.79 on 2026-09-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has HOPE 01 sold?
- indielist estimates HOPE 01 has sold between 6,270 and 14,630 units (median 10,450), derived from its 209 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed HOPE 01?
- HOPE 01 was developed by Bending Boy Games and published by Bending Boy Games.
- Who published HOPE 01?
- HOPE 01 was published by Bending Boy Games, developed by Bending Boy Games. See Bending Boy Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was HOPE 01 released?
- HOPE 01 was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does HOPE 01 have on Steam?
- HOPE 01 has 209 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is HOPE 01 worth playing?
- Steam players rate HOPE 01 95% positive across 209 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like HOPE 01 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bending Boy Games's other releases and Bending Boy Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where HOPE 01 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same HOPE 01 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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