Contra Spem Spero

Contra Spem Spero is a narrative horror game that combines text-based exploration, visual novel storytelling, survival elements and puzzles. After your car breaks down on a deserted road, you set out on foot with only a journal and camera. The asphalt gradually becomes soil, and you find yourself in an endless night in a forest filled with unexplained things and terrifying creatures that were once human. They communicate with you through the photos you take.

Choices and endings

The story branches according to your choices, and multiple endings contribute to a fuller understanding of it. Encounters with lost humans, desperate creatures, wandering observers, mysterious entities and other beings can shape your future. The game leaves open whom you can trust in this place.

Survival and puzzles

You must keep track of your health, which is divided into two distinct bars. Different types of puzzles add variety to your exploration.

The forest

An interactive map helps you navigate 42 main locations and 13 secret ones. Dark, stylized photos capture each place you visit and creature you encounter; no encounter is meaningless.