Krish Raghav
@krishraghav.bsky.social
Bullshit comic book artist. Chaoyang Trap stagehand. Working on a comic book about Beijing underground music // krishcat.com
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Krish Raghav
@krishraghav.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out now! Free on Steam + @itch.io
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
Genuinely in disbelief that Don't Get Your Hopes Up is an official 2025 @indiegameawards.gg nominee!! I'm honoured to be alongside my personal game of the year @wednesdays-game.bsky.social in the category "Emotional Impact" ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Genuinely in disbelief that Don't Get Your Hopes Up is an official 2025 @indiegameawards.gg nominee!! I'm honoured to be alongside my personal game of the year @wednesdays-game.bsky.social in the category "Emotional Impact" ❤️
If your circumstances allow, I highly recommend thinking of your game as more than just a product on a storefront. "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" was always intended as a gift, a zine, an op-ed, like something crocheted with friends. The conversations and friendships it has sparked have changed my life ❤️
The social construction of economic "value" has never been clearer to me (for better and worse). So much cutting-edge digital game dev work today is happening outside the paradigm of "distribute an exe on Steam"... mods, fan games, ORGs, weird web experiments, IF, alt ctrl, game jams, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
If your circumstances allow, I highly recommend thinking of your game as more than just a product on a storefront. "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" was always intended as a gift, a zine, an op-ed, like something crocheted with friends. The conversations and friendships it has sparked have changed my life ❤️
Gosh I loved this so much. I'm usually a notorious skimmer but I really savoured the richness of detail here. One of my favourite books this year ❤️
My weirdo sci-fi slowburning romance debut novel More Bugs is available in eBook form now after getting some fresh blurbs and attention from year end lists... 👀 👽 🛸 #sff 💙📚
eBook: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Print: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Info: emreed.net/more_bugs
eBook: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Print: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Info: emreed.net/more_bugs
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gosh I loved this so much. I'm usually a notorious skimmer but I really savoured the richness of detail here. One of my favourite books this year ❤️
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If you want a short, spooky activity for the evening this (free!) surreal horror game about housing insecurity is funny, atmospheric, and probably too real for anyone who's looked for somewhere to live in a city in 2025
🎉 Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out Tue Sep 16!
A short game about housing shortage and horror in architecture. A wayward history of Amsterdam that has evaded archival capture. A weird, disquieting, experimental non-fiction piece.
Free on Steam / PWYW on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A short game about housing shortage and horror in architecture. A wayward history of Amsterdam that has evaded archival capture. A weird, disquieting, experimental non-fiction piece.
Free on Steam / PWYW on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you want a short, spooky activity for the evening this (free!) surreal horror game about housing insecurity is funny, atmospheric, and probably too real for anyone who's looked for somewhere to live in a city in 2025
Got my hopes up and am excited to reveal that I will be in Cape Town for @playtopia.bsky.social!! I am so excited to meet everyone and do everything. Say hi if you'll be around, and send me all your best Cape Town / Western Cape recs!
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Got my hopes up and am excited to reveal that I will be in Cape Town for @playtopia.bsky.social!! I am so excited to meet everyone and do everything. Say hi if you'll be around, and send me all your best Cape Town / Western Cape recs!
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I really enjoyed this! Super funny, biting (magical realist?) exploration of housing crisis in Amsterdam (but sadly very relatable beyond just the Netherlands). Recommended.
bsky.app/profile/kris...
bsky.app/profile/kris...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out now! Free on Steam + @itch.io
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I really enjoyed this! Super funny, biting (magical realist?) exploration of housing crisis in Amsterdam (but sadly very relatable beyond just the Netherlands). Recommended.
bsky.app/profile/kris...
bsky.app/profile/kris...
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You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Learn more on Don’t get your Hopes Up in our full review of this free game:
somanygames.co.uk/review/dont-...
Learn more on Don’t get your Hopes Up in our full review of this free game:
somanygames.co.uk/review/dont-...
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Learn more on Don’t get your Hopes Up in our full review of this free game:
somanygames.co.uk/review/dont-...
Learn more on Don’t get your Hopes Up in our full review of this free game:
somanygames.co.uk/review/dont-...
Replaying Anthology of the Killer to prepare for a zine fair this weekend
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Replaying Anthology of the Killer to prepare for a zine fair this weekend
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Krish Raghav ondervond hoe moeilijk het is om een huis te vinden. Het inspireerde hem tot het maken van Don't Get Your Hopes Up. Zijn eerste game ooit.
#gamedev #indiedev #dutchgames
#gamedev #indiedev #dutchgames
Amsterdamse woningnood inspireert comic book artist tot game
Krish Raghav ondervond hoe moeilijk het is om een huis te vinden. Het inspireerde hem tot het maken van Don't Get Your Hopes Up. Zijn eerste game ooit.
www.control-online.nl
October 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Krish Raghav ondervond hoe moeilijk het is om een huis te vinden. Het inspireerde hem tot het maken van Don't Get Your Hopes Up. Zijn eerste game ooit.
#gamedev #indiedev #dutchgames
#gamedev #indiedev #dutchgames
For Bandcamp Friday, highly recommend checking out Simon's new album (which partly soundtracks Don't Get Your Hopes Up!). Out now on digital and cassette via Nocturnal Technology: nocturnaltechnology.bandcamp.com/album/victim...
VICTIM OF A NEW AGE, by Simon Frank
9 track album
nocturnaltechnology.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
For Bandcamp Friday, highly recommend checking out Simon's new album (which partly soundtracks Don't Get Your Hopes Up!). Out now on digital and cassette via Nocturnal Technology: nocturnaltechnology.bandcamp.com/album/victim...
Please consider "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" for your spooky season coverage! A free 40 min game about the horrors of the Amsterdam housing market, with elements of cosmic and psychological horror. A disquieting, demented experience that is all-too-real.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Please consider "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" for your spooky season coverage! A free 40 min game about the horrors of the Amsterdam housing market, with elements of cosmic and psychological horror. A disquieting, demented experience that is all-too-real.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
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11. Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Lovely little game of househunting in Amsterdam turned into a demented fever dream. A lot of delightful local touches if you know the city but should be relatable to anyone who's interacted with a major city property market in the last decade. Completely free on Steam!
Lovely little game of househunting in Amsterdam turned into a demented fever dream. A lot of delightful local touches if you know the city but should be relatable to anyone who's interacted with a major city property market in the last decade. Completely free on Steam!
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
11. Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Lovely little game of househunting in Amsterdam turned into a demented fever dream. A lot of delightful local touches if you know the city but should be relatable to anyone who's interacted with a major city property market in the last decade. Completely free on Steam!
Lovely little game of househunting in Amsterdam turned into a demented fever dream. A lot of delightful local touches if you know the city but should be relatable to anyone who's interacted with a major city property market in the last decade. Completely free on Steam!
I love that a significant source of traffic to Don't Get Your Hopes Up is, presumably, people dropping the link in their workplace group chats.
September 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I love that a significant source of traffic to Don't Get Your Hopes Up is, presumably, people dropping the link in their workplace group chats.
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Finally finished Don't Get Your Hopes Up (store.steampowered.com/app/3795490) by @krishraghav.bsky.social all I have to say is pls play it yourself! Without spoiling the experience too much here are my favourite moments in the game with minimal context
1. This was a brutal read, I audibly gasped
1. This was a brutal read, I audibly gasped
September 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Finally finished Don't Get Your Hopes Up (store.steampowered.com/app/3795490) by @krishraghav.bsky.social all I have to say is pls play it yourself! Without spoiling the experience too much here are my favourite moments in the game with minimal context
1. This was a brutal read, I audibly gasped
1. This was a brutal read, I audibly gasped
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I really, really loved this bite-sized narrative 'horror' game last night. Do yourself a favour and check out Don't Get Your Hopes Up. www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is all architectural horror, human warmth, and unnervingly stoic pigeons
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is a short interactive comic about Amsterdam's housing shortage and architectural horror.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I really, really loved this bite-sized narrative 'horror' game last night. Do yourself a favour and check out Don't Get Your Hopes Up. www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
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Housing horror story: Amsterdam’s rental market is a video game www.dutchnews.nl?p=257626
Housing horror story: Amsterdam’s rental market is a video game
www.dutchnews.nl
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Housing horror story: Amsterdam’s rental market is a video game www.dutchnews.nl?p=257626
Amazing as always from @nathanelamar.bsky.social and @gbienvenu.bsky.social! If anyone wants a good CD-Rip of that 琴努里 album I'm happy to share :)
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Zine “Do You Like Chinese Music” + Playlist
Last July, with my esteemed colleague and friend Grégoire Bienvenu, who wrote his PhD on Chinese hip-hop and host the fabulous podcast “Chine Yuefu” (in French), we decided to write a zine on Chinese ...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Amazing as always from @nathanelamar.bsky.social and @gbienvenu.bsky.social! If anyone wants a good CD-Rip of that 琴努里 album I'm happy to share :)
Surprise featured in Het Parool over the weekend, with my game's possible alternate title in the headline.
"GAME OVER: De Amsterdamse woningmarkt"
"GAME OVER: De Amsterdamse woningmarkt"
Game over de Amsterdamse woningmarkt: ‘Je strijdt tegen een soort onzichtbare vijand’
Game over de Amsterdamse woningmarkt: ‘Je strijdt tegen een soort onzichtbare vijand’
De gekte op de Amsterdamse woningmarkt is nu ook in gamevorm gegoten. Don’t get your hopes up is de veelzeggende naam van een game waarin je binnen een week een woning moet zien te vinden. En net zoals in het echt ligt teleurstelling altijd op de loer.
www.parool.nl
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Surprise featured in Het Parool over the weekend, with my game's possible alternate title in the headline.
"GAME OVER: De Amsterdamse woningmarkt"
"GAME OVER: De Amsterdamse woningmarkt"
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Don't Get Your Hopes Up (@krishraghav.bsky.social)
"You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam.
Your once-confident search is morphing into panic.
Nothing is available. Anything will do.
Anything. "
PWYC - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2025/09/21/d...
"You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam.
Your once-confident search is morphing into panic.
Nothing is available. Anything will do.
Anything. "
PWYC - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2025/09/21/d...
September 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Don't Get Your Hopes Up (@krishraghav.bsky.social)
"You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam.
Your once-confident search is morphing into panic.
Nothing is available. Anything will do.
Anything. "
PWYC - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2025/09/21/d...
"You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam.
Your once-confident search is morphing into panic.
Nothing is available. Anything will do.
Anything. "
PWYC - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2025/09/21/d...
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plans to actually enjoy this city fell through, so i played @krishraghav.bsky.social's Don't Get Your Hopes Up instead!
i've been struggling to love amsterdam recently and it feels good to see that others do too. oh, the things we endure to live in a city with cool birds and good (non-dutch) food!
i've been struggling to love amsterdam recently and it feels good to see that others do too. oh, the things we endure to live in a city with cool birds and good (non-dutch) food!
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
plans to actually enjoy this city fell through, so i played @krishraghav.bsky.social's Don't Get Your Hopes Up instead!
i've been struggling to love amsterdam recently and it feels good to see that others do too. oh, the things we endure to live in a city with cool birds and good (non-dutch) food!
i've been struggling to love amsterdam recently and it feels good to see that others do too. oh, the things we endure to live in a city with cool birds and good (non-dutch) food!
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from the game devs of colour expo: a whole free game! both *painfully* familiar (does anywhere not? have a housing crisis currently?) and meaningfully specific as a story store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up on Steam
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
store.steampowered.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
from the game devs of colour expo: a whole free game! both *painfully* familiar (does anywhere not? have a housing crisis currently?) and meaningfully specific as a story store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
Featured on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social today, with an absolutely wonderful writeup and analysis by Nic Reuben:
"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is all architectural horror, human warmth, and unnervingly stoic pigeons
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is a short interactive comic about Amsterdam's housing shortage and architectural horror.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Featured on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social today, with an absolutely wonderful writeup and analysis by Nic Reuben:
"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
Thanks for featuring Don't Get Your Hopes Up! ❤️
We're back to almost 20 games being showcased! Many have unusual premises! One is an adventure game that has a jellyfish who wants to destroy the world!
cheapretrogaming.com/2025/09/19/f...
#FreeGames #indiegames #adventure #pointandclick #hackandslash #actiongames #2dgames #platformer
cheapretrogaming.com/2025/09/19/f...
#FreeGames #indiegames #adventure #pointandclick #hackandslash #actiongames #2dgames #platformer
Friday’s Free Games! Games With Unique Premises Are the Highlight This Week!
Today we’re back to a larger assortment of titles, with almost 20 games being showcased! Many of these have unusual premises! One is an adventure game that has a jellyfish who wants to destro…
cheapretrogaming.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thanks for featuring Don't Get Your Hopes Up! ❤️
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out now! Free on Steam + @itch.io
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out now! Free on Steam + @itch.io
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A 40-60 minute experience about the horror of the Amsterdam housing market, and that feeling of home that's always just beyond reach. A mix of fiction, non-fiction, and social commentary.
🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...