Hi everybody!!! Ivan's here!

HARD TIMES GOES FREE TO PLAY

The great news here is that starting from 1st february 2020 Hard Times is going to be released as a Free to Play game. Open and free for everyone to play. I'm gonna close the Early Access phase, in which copies were sold and every single cent of any revenue coming from it have been donated to L'Alternativa Onlus to support their projects with homeless people in our town. We managed to raise quite a nice amount and supported this year's program distributing blankets and general assistance and legal support to homeless people with the help of you buying the game. As i said many times before i chose not to get a single cent from the game revenues, and if you bought the game 100% of your money (except taxes and steam revenues) are going to charity. So you still have time until the end of january to buy Hard Times and support homeless help programs with a little money. Otherwise you can wait for february and have the chance to play the game for free, as it will become free to play for everyone. In this way I hope to be able to expand the community of players and, perhaps, find new stimuli to develop new tools for modding and new support and content for the game. In the meantime, there are also new projects in the pipeline and new adventures are at the start, so there is no shortage of things to do. Precise plans for the future, however, there are none, we navigate - as always - on sight, we go where the wind takes us and, tomorrow, blessed is he who still has an eye! Happy New Year to everyone!

[ 2020-01-07 09:21:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.

You will have to look into junk, beg for money, escape corrupt policemen and citizens maniac about decorum. You will feel hunger and cold. You will suffer in the long rainy nights and be glad when you can get a decent meal.

You will have to learn to build your own tools by yourself, craft and recycle objects to gain resources. You will make artifacts of all kinds, including furniture, work benchs, kitchens, beds, cardboard boxes, storage containers for your little treasures and much more.

You will probably have to give up your innocence to survive. Small thefts and looting will become a gesture of self-preservation, beyond any moral judgment. You will know the thrill of introducing into an abandoned property to take possession of it.

You can choose whether to become a squatter and build your base in the city, live in a homeless camp or move your stuff daily with a cart to sleep every night in a different place.

You will be hunting for rats and fishing radioactive fish to cook them in the live fire of an old rusty bin. You will contract illnesses, use drugs and experience on your skin as cold and indifferent the great metropolis can be for those who live Hard Times.






### 10% of all revenues created by this game will be donated to "L'alternativa Onlus" a charity ngo organization, active in homeless people support programs in the Ostia Lido (Rome - Italy) territory. ###