Bending Boy Games is a self-publishing independent developer. Its Steam release HOPE 01 is a single-player extraction survival RPG that entered the Steam 250 week chart at #37 with a score of 7.40 from 98 reviews at 94 percent positive.

The studio’s stated design angle is the extraction loop stripped of PvP: the loot-or-lose-it stakes stay, the other players do not.