Hope In the City is a new narrative driven game in the same vein as Life Is Strange. You walk around and interact with things, piecing together evidence as you work to unravel the mystery of what happened to your Mom and Dad after your apartment was broken into. This guide will help you unlock the games 12 achievements and earn the Mythic achievement
Without spoiling anything here, Hope in the City is inspired by a real story and a game that is most definitely worth experiencing. It is also a relatively short experience and is currently on Xbox Game Pass. Clocking in at around 2 hours, it will be one of your easier completions.
Overview:
Total Achievements: 12
Completion Difficulty: 2/10
Estimated Completion Time: 2-3 hours
Missable Achievements: 9
Playthroughs Required: 1
Difficulty Based Achievements? No
Unobtainable/Glitched Achievements: None
Step 1: Play Through The Story
All of the Hope in the City achievements can be unlocked in a single playthrough, though most of the achievements are missable. Only 3 of the 12 achievements are story related that can’t be missed, though some of the missable achievements will be pretty easy to get on your own without a guide. The achievement lists and solutions below are in order (outside of the story related ones) so you can follow along.
The story can be slightly different depending on some of the things you do, but that shouldn’t change your ability to unlock all of the achievements in a single playthrough. The best advice is to create manual saves often.
Step 2: Mop Up
If you missed any on of the achievements you can go back and either replay the game or use one of your previous saves if you were using manual saves. A second run won’t take nearly as long since you will know what to do and can skip many things.
Overall this is a very easy completion and can be done in one sitting. Enjoy the game though because its narrative is worth the price of admission. Enjoy!
Achievement List & Solutions
| Achievement | Description | Location |
| Another Day | Leave school after helping a friend | Story Related, can’t be missed |
| Sleep it Off | Go to sleep full of doubts | Story Related, can’t be missed |
| Taking Off | Fly away from here | Story Related, end of game achievement |
| Location Services | Narrowly escape a shadowy pursuer | After meeting the strange man in the alley for the first time you will head back to the main street. You will get a prompt about a car following you. When leaving this area make sure to leave via the yellow subway tunnel next to the convenience store |
| Lucky Eavesdrop | That could have been trouble | If you haven’t used your thoughts to get the insight “were we robbed?” from inside the apartment make sure to do so. If you don’t have that ability you can also look at the security camera on the side of the convenience store to unlock the police station. Once at the police station just walk up the stairs to where 2 cops are talking. A dialogue will start and the achievement will unlock |
| The Books! | Remember to help a friend before it’s too late | When entering the admin room go to the left hand corner to get the address about the girl you are looking for. Do not interact with anything else after this and instead try to leave. When you try to leave Hope will prompt you about the books, unlocking the achievement |
| Second Thoughts | Avoid an encounter with your home intruder | After leaving school on the second day (after returning the books) head back to your neighborhood and head into your apartment. Hope will notice things are different. Look at the papers on the ground and then try and head down the hall to the bedrooms. Hope will suggest against it and you will then want to leave the apartment. Once on street level try and head back in again and Hope will say she’s not going back in and the achievement will unlock. |
| Access Granted | Convince woman to let you in to strange apartment | After speaking with your Aunt at the hospital and making a breakthrough about your mom and a major confrontation about Bai Yun’s family head back to the girls apartment. You will mention you mom to the girls mom and she will let you in |
| Man on the Run | Learn more about the man in the alley | After speaking with Bai Yun and her aunt Hope will wonder where to head next. Head back to the internet cafe in the alley in your neighborhood. You will see a man in a suit sitting at one of the computers. It is the man from the alley. Speak with him and once the dialogue is done you will unlock the achievement |
| Collateral Crush | Almost get caught in a police raid | After speaking with the mystery man head to the left more to find Lin Meng standing next to the desk area. Go through the dialog where she will tell you to stay away from Tang Wei. Go and speak to Tang Wei next and exhaust the dialogue with him too. Now you may leave the cafe and when you do a little scene will play showing the police raiding it. The achievement will unlock here |
| Off The Hook | Rein in that temper before it’s too late | After going back to the internet cafe for a second time head back to your Aunt’s house. Grab her keycard off the hook. Before leaving the apartment go to your Aunt’s bedroom door and interact. Some dialogue will take place and the achievement will unlock |
| Forced Admission | Find your way into the restricted area | After going back to the internet cafe for a second time head back to your Aunt’s house. Grab her keycard off the hook at her front door and then head back to the hospital. Use the keycard to get into the door in the back and the achievement will unlock |
We appreciate you checking out this guide, and hope it helped you with the achievement. Be sure to check out our other guides for the game below.
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