Your Parents Are Missing - Hope In The City Releases Its Demo - A Narrative Mystery Game Where Choices Truly Matter.
Follow 17-year-old Hope Song in a case to find her missing parents. Dive into an emotional, impactful demo where an artistic teenager finds herself in a personal crisis far beyond her years...
Toronto, Canada - August 10, 2026 - โ Lofty Sky Entertainment, based in Toronto, is excited to announce its Demo release for Hope in the City, its upcoming narrative mystery game during its participation in the Choice Matters Festival hosted by Telltale on August 10th and is also part of the official Busan Indie Connect selection in Korea.
Hope in the City's demo features the first act of the game. Explore the streets and back alleys of the Chinese city of Shenyang in search of her missing parents and step into the darkness lurking beneath the city's peaceful facade.
Hope In the City - Official Demo Release Trailer:
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We encourage press & creators to cover the demo first, but those who want can already put their name on the list for a full review key closer to release:
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About the game
Hope in the City is an impactful narrative mystery game made by the team behind the 2026 GDC Best in Play Winner Sky of Tides and the Annie Award-nominated Eternal Spring. When 17-year-old Hope Song comes home to find her parents gone, she refuses to wait for answers; she becomes the investigator herself.
Sketching clues into her notebook and connecting them into breakthroughs, Hope uncovers the dark secrets hiding just beneath her city's calm, familiar surface. Set in the Chinese city of Shenyang, explore its beautiful streets in a bold, colorful and stylized visual identity with an edge.
Dive into a deep narrative mystery where every sketch reveals a little more of the truth.
Key features
- Sketchbook-Based Investigation: Gather clues, record observations, and piece them together through sketches in Hope's notebook.
- Thought-Building Mechanic: Turn scattered observations into insights, then chain them into breakthroughs to advance the case.
- Complex Case Structure: Pursue leads in the order you choose as you dig into your parents' disappearance.
- Exploration-Driven Discovery: Explore a seemingly calm and beautiful city with a unique design to uncover the clues and secrets hidden beneath its surface.
- Story-Driven Progression: Custom cutscenes trigger as you solve the mystery, tying investigation progress directly to narrative reveals.
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About the Studio
Lofty Sky Games is a Toronto-based award-winning studio producing games, animation, VR, and documentary content. Our work has represented Canada at the Academy Awardsยฎ, won GDC Pitch and GDC Best in Play, and earned nominations from the Canadian Screen and Canadian Game Awards.
Copyright ยฉ 2026 Lofty Sky Games, All rights reserved.
Produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund and the support of Ontario Creates.
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