Point Hope

Misleading rooms

The game splits some rooms differently from how they look. It matters for the Ouija Board, Ghost Orbs and the ghost room.

• There’s only one route from floor to floor: no shortcuts and no alternate paths.
• The lantern room is split into two rooms: Lantern Room Bottom (Floor 9) and Lantern Room Top (Floor 10).
• The Balcony sits level with Lantern Room Top, but the game counts it as Floor 9, along with Lantern Room Bottom. Of its two doors, the one facing the sea is much closer to the stairs down to Lantern Room Bottom.
• The Bathroom Hallway, the Master Bedroom Hallway and the Child Bedroom Hallway are separate rooms. Neither they nor the Balcony can be the ghost’s favorite room.
• From almost any room the ghost can make a short roam to another floor; the exceptions are the Living Room and the Entry Bathroom.

Hiding spots

• Almost half of the hiding spots are on the ground floor (the Living Room, the Entry Hallway and the Entry Bathroom), but hiding there is risky: because of a bug, the ghost sometimes walks into hiding spots on its own, during hunts or outside them. If it’s roaming nearby, keep Incense ready.
• Before a hunt starts, note which floors have hiding spots and which ones you can reach without passing where the ghost usually is.

Where to loop the ghost

• Some floors have a solid pillar in the middle: loop the ghost around it to recover stamina and break line of sight before you run for the stairs.
• The spiral stairs break line of sight right away: going up or down one flight is often enough to lose it.

Cursed possessions

Where each cursed possession spawns when the contract has one.

• Haunted Mirror

  Next to a cupboard in the Dining Room.

• Music Box

  On the vanity table in the Master Bedroom.

• Ouija Board

  On a shelf in the Games Room.

• Summoning Circle

  On the Bathroom floor.

• Tarot Cards

  On the table between the two couches in the Living Room.

• Voodoo Doll

  On a wooden chest of drawers in the Child Bedroom.

• Monkey Paw

  On the desk with the wooden horse in the Maintenance Room.

Tips

• The fuse box can only spawn at the entrance, in the Kitchen, in the Games Room or in the Master Bedroom Hallway.
• Reaching the upper floors takes a long time, sanity drains fast and, as a medium map, it allows few lights on at once. If the ghost room is near the top, use Firelights and leave the hallway lights on along the way (about six or seven, to leave some margin before the fuse box trips).
• Lantern Room Top and the Balcony have no lights, so there’s no way to slow your sanity drain there.
• During a hunt, changing floors is dangerous: there’s only one route, and when the ghost is on another floor its sounds are muffled.
• There’s a box with a single match on the fireplace in the Games Room, in case you forgot the Igniter for Incense or a Firelight.
• Bone: They spawn randomly where the ghost can walk, only in rooms that can be its favorite room, and never in Lantern Room Top. They don’t spawn in the Maintenance Room either, because it has no area for bones.

Trivia

• It’s the first map tied to a real place: the plaque at the front door says the lighthouse was built in Massachusetts in 1802.
• The maritime signal flags in the Child Bedroom spell “GET OUT,” and the same room has two Blåhaj shark plushies.
• It has an easter egg that awards the “Ferryman of the Drowned” ID Card: pot three pool balls in order, put a cogwheel in the lantern cabinet, ring the bell at the entrance three times and shine a UV Light on the lighthouse lantern.