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New Hope [v0.11.4] [YahBoi Blayke]

December 7, 2025F95

New Hope is an LGBTQI+ inclusive story starring Justin, an 18-year-old high school senior with two very big secrets. He’s gay and trying to hold onto his secrets until finally finishing senior year and moving off to college. But when he loses his songbook, things take an unexpected turn as Justin begins to message a mystery guy who shares the same secret.

Being gay isn’t the only thing Justin’s trying to hide, however.

Thread Updated: 2025-12-07

Release Date: 2025-10-09

Developer: Apollo Studios – Itch.io – Patreon – Discord

Censored: No

Version: 0.11.4

OS: Windows, Linux, Mac

Language: English

Genre:

3dcg, male protagonist, gay, dating sim. romance, masturbation, supernatural

Installation:

1. Extract and run.

Changelog:

v0.11

N/A

v0.10

– Bug and Typo fixes for V0.9 content

– Additional Sprites for all Characters

– Addition of Chapter 4

– Extended Changing Room scene with additional choices

– Extended Forest Search scene with choices and alternative scenes

– Updated dialogue / script

– New Music & SFX

v0.9

We’ve tried to add more detail into this chapter. This was one of the slower parts of the story, but I’m really excited for you all to see the new elements and story beats that have been added.

One major new feature is that you now have the ability to train Justin’s power. There are three skills available which you can train. Going forward, when presented with a task that requires the use of his powers, you’ll be given an option on how to proceed. Choose incorrectly, whether it be the practicality of that skill’s use or simply not training it well enough, then it could have dire consequences.

v0.8

So, we decided to remake New Hope in our new format. We’ve taken everything we’ve learned from our previous releases in this style and applied it to New Hope. Taking the best bits to ensure the change was seamless.

There are also some new features available in New Hope that we haven’t tried before! Some of these were actually shown in our Future Concept post we did for Hollow earlier last year.

Shall we do a breakdown of what features are now available?
Integrated Character Choices:

Instead of the black bars that would appear in the centre of the screen, choices are now integrated into the game world. How does this work? Here’s an example!

hoice scenarios will be flagged with the Apollo icon. In the first section of the game, these will be paired with little descriptors to help players understand how the scenes work.

Essentially, the first image will be displayed, and when the player moves their mouse over a certain area, it will pull through a section of the second image to notify that a choice option is available.

Object Interactions:

Object interactions have also been added. Some scenes in the game will now include moments for you to interact with objects. These will either give contextual scenes for more info about characters, settings and events – or they will push the narrative forward.

Justin’s Personality:

Justin can be easily overwhelmed and sometimes needs your help to make the right decisions. There are now key moments in the game where you can decide how Justin reacts to certain scenarios. In this example, you must help Justin decide how to respond to Spidey’s note.

Do you see Justin as being assertive or more apprehensive in his response? Alternatively, you can play this in a way that best suits your own personality and how you would react.

Character Sprites:

You’ll have seen these in various projects now. Sprites have been implemented to keep the game file size manageable. Using them in scenes that don’t require the cinematic perspective has helped us to develop these additional features mentioned above and also improve the quality of the cinematic shots that we do use.

v0.7

Hi hi hi! The long-awaited New Hope instalment is finally here! V0.6 closes Chapter 3 with a bang! Get ready for a wild ride because things are kicking up a gear!

v0.6.1

The long-awaited New Hope instalment is finally here! V0.6 closes Chapter 3 with a bang! Get ready for a wild ride because things are kicking up a gear! Give this post a like, and don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments section, or jump over to Discord and discuss all things New Hope in the dedicated New Hope V0.6 Spoiler channel!

Several typos updated
Bug that occurs during the conversation with Jeremy fixed
New splash screen instructing players to start a new game when playing a new update

v0.5.1

N/A

v0.5

Script edits correcting bugs encountered in V0.4 and early release of V0.5
Image file size reduction
Chapter select screen
Enhanced Music & SFX
Continuation of the Main Story
Continuation of the Character Routes (Ethan, Theo, and Eyal).

v0.4

Continuation of the main story arc
Expansion on the three routes for Ethan, Eyal and Theo
Over 2000 images now coded into the game
Music and SFX has been added
Bug & Typo fixes addressed from V0.3
Reduced CG file sizes. (I’m aiming to reduce them further to help with the game file size, however I’m looking for lossless options only as I don’t want to bring down the image quality.)

Don’t forget, when you download a new update you cannot load old saves.
Due to the episodic nature of releases – loading an old save will crash the game and cause you to miss content.
Please start a new game, and use the chapter select menu.

DOWNLOAD
Win/Linux: BUZZHEAVIER – DATANODES – MEGA – PIXELDRAIN – VIKINGFILE
Mac: BUZZHEAVIER – DATANODES – MEGA – PIXELDRAIN – VIKINGFILE
Android: BUZZHEAVIER – DATANODES – MEGA – PIXELDRAIN – VIKINGFILE