Krish Raghav
LightNews LightNews
banner
krishraghav.bsky.social
Krish Raghav
@krishraghav.bsky.social
580 followers 430 following 130 posts
Bullshit comic book artist. Chaoyang Trap stagehand. Working on a comic book about Beijing underground music // krishcat.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
krishraghav.bsky.social
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/...
krishraghav.bsky.social
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 ❤️
dayofthemutants.bsky.social Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · Feb 17
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
eReader devices and a paperback book showing the cover of More Bugs, a cool and creepy illustration of a person pulling away the side of their face to show a large beetle crawling out. Has a quote from David Lewis, writing in Strange Horizons' 2024 in review: "a psychologically rich love story with subcutaneous insectoids who are all at once unsettling and touchingly romantic." and a blurb from Eve Harms, author of Transmuted: "An insightful and thought-provoking portrait of suburban alienation and longing with a delightful dash of body horror. Through engrossing prose, Reed stealthily weaves the impossible and everyday to reveal the suffocating dread of our personal histories."
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
shockandaudrey.bsky.social
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
krishraghav.bsky.social Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social · Sep 9
🎉 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 poster for the videogame "Don't Get Your Hopes Up", revealing a release date of September 16, 2025. The game will be free to play on Steam and itch.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
krishraghav.bsky.social
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!
A beautiful, colourful laurel says "Official Selection, Playtopia 2025" for the game Don't Get Your Hopes Up
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
doougle.net
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...
krishraghav.bsky.social 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/...
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
somanygames.co.uk
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-...
This image shows the games main logo. Consisting of building at different angles with a pair of eyes under the games title. The following quote from our review is also included: “it is a deeply engaging, vital, eye-opening piece of work, chock-full of empathy and critical thinking."
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
krishraghav.bsky.social
Replaying Anthology of the Killer to prepare for a zine fair this weekend
A screenshot from Anthology of the Killer episode 5. Two horror nurses are reading a zine and commenting that it is. "Truly heinous document" on account of mentions of "Cannibal Blood Feast" and "More Knife Murders". The protagonist BB replies, distraught: "Those are BANDS!!! It's called a scene report!!"
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
controlmagazine.bsky.social
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
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
krishraghav.bsky.social
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
krishraghav.bsky.social
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/...
A screenshot from the game Don't Get Your Hopes Up shows the protagonists texting each other about a cursed apartment Review on Steam for the game Don't Get Your Hopes Up, which reads: "Simultaneously Kafkaesque yet dismally grounded depiction of the horrors of the housing market, which very succinctly puts into words the same despair I've personally been overwhelmed by when increasingly lowering my standards browsing available rentals on Willow." Review on Steam for Don't Get Your Hopes Up, whivh reads: "Very atmospheric, short experience. The endless basements house is my favorite. Rentable apartments have a liminal space vibe anyways, so why not go with the extreme version of it?" A poster for the game Don't Get Your Hopes Up, showcasing its selection for the Game Devs of Color 2025 expo.
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
liamdeane.bsky.social
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!
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
krishraghav.bsky.social
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.
A screenshot showing sources of traffic to the game Don't Get Your Hopes Up on itch.io. the sources indicate incoming hits from Microsoft Teams and Slack apps.
September 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
zogzhu.bsky.social
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
September 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
playhilltop.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Krish Raghav
dutchnewsnl.bsky.social
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
krishraghav.bsky.social
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 :)
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
krishraghav.bsky.social
Surprise featured in Het Parool over the weekend, with my game's possible alternate title in the headline.

"GAME OVER: De Amsterdamse woningmarkt"
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
warpdoor.com
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...
September 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
500rats.bsky.social
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!
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
velcrocyborg.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Krish Raghav
rockpapershotgun.bsky.social
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 10:51 AM
krishraghav.bsky.social
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...
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
krishraghav.bsky.social
Thanks for featuring Don't Get Your Hopes Up! ❤️
September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
krishraghav.bsky.social
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/...
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
shockandaudrey.bsky.social
A game my extremely talented friend made, about the horrors of finding housing in our city, is available to play today! The art and music is killer and Krish should be raking in cash for it, but instead it is free. Check it out!
krishraghav.bsky.social Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social · Sep 9
🎉 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 poster for the videogame "Don't Get Your Hopes Up", revealing a release date of September 16, 2025. The game will be free to play on Steam and itch.
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Krish Raghav
zogzhu.bsky.social
A handcrafted, nonfiction game about real lived human experience that is also free to play?! Yess
krishraghav.bsky.social Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social · Sep 9
🎉 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 poster for the videogame "Don't Get Your Hopes Up", revealing a release date of September 16, 2025. The game will be free to play on Steam and itch.
September 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM