Hope in the city demo hits Steam ahead of November 11 release

Lofty Sky and co-publisher NAGA Publishing released a new demo for Hope in the City on Steam during Next Fest. The update introduces Story Mode for a relaxed playthrough and Detective Mode for a higher challenge. It supports five languages, featuring full English voice acting alongside Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The team also polished apartment navigation, viewing angles, motion, and solved multiple issues.

This title tracks seventeen-year-old creator Hope Song searching for her mother and father in Shenyang, Northeast China, via notebook sketches. Lofty Sky says the full game launches on November 11, 2026, arriving one day later than initially planned. A special announcement will follow at the Golden Joystick Awards in London that evening. The title launches day one on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Steam, with pre-orders and pre-installs already live on Xbox.