Hobo: Tough Life on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.
Hobo: Tough Life is a survival, open world and multiplayer game
developed and published by Perun Creative.
Released on April 12th 2021 is available on Windows and Linux
in 9 languages: English, Czech, Simplified Chinese, German, Polish, Russian, French, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.
It has received 8,651 reviews of which 7,307 were positive and 1,344 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. đ
The game is currently priced at 28.99⏠on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 660 / AMD Radeon 7850
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Linux
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 660 / AMD Radeon 7850
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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This game hates you. When you launch it, it won't patiently explain you how to play to itself; it won't show you dull hints about important functions, about your inventory, about your character's needs and how to fulfill them. No. Oh, no. It'll look at you with a contemptuous smirk, silently asking you: âWhat the heck are you doing here, you little snot? I didnât ask you to come. Get lost.â Your clothes will be constantly ripping and stinking. You'll have no money, and as soon as you get some â you'll be beaten up by thugs and a good 1/3 of your earnings will be stolen. You'll be cold, sick, hungry and nauseous because you ate some dubious scraps mixed with cigarette butts, youâll barely scrape together enough cash to pee in a stall instead of your own pants, suffer from all the possible addictions because youâll desperately try to keep your spirits below zero, and no one around you will ultimately give a damn about you because you smell worse than the nearest dumpster. And it's all gonna make you want to die. And you will die. Inevitably. The first day or, if you're lucky, the second. Third day at the most. And then many, many more times after that. You will feel with every fiber of your soul how the game is torturing you with true sadistic satisfaction. And itâs happening on the normal difficulty mode, when there are still hardcore and hardcore+, which terrifies you by its mere existence. And many people, as practice shows, quit the game after about 5 to 10 hours of play, being tired of fighting with the exhausting, merciless survival mode, because their nerves are frayed by the fact that all the items that were earned with blood and sweat were lost to NPCs once again after another character's death, there is no money to buy them back (and it looks like wonât ever be), and the character themself is also continuously on their last legs in constantly worsening weather conditions. The game will even grin when you decide to leave after another death and will mockingly offer you a âRage quitâ button underneath the polite âExit to windowsâ button, which effectively does the same thing. But if you hit rock bottom, come to terms with the frailty of existence and learn what to do to die not every 3 in-game hours but at least every 10, the game will reveal itself to you from a completely unexpected angle. Non-ironically, I will say that it's been a long time since I've encountered such an amazing, engaging RPG. And who would have thought that such a plot jewel would be hidden underneath a completely, flat out insane survival game about hobos? The plot of this game is something else in the best way possible. Avoiding spoilers, quests there made me laugh like a seagull, and cry, and sympathize with the characters I had to deal with, sometimes even with the fiercest scumbags, because the game on your own skin shows what they experience on a daily basis. In the cruel world everyone survives however they can. In the end, the fact that you have to fight hard against the survival mode to get this treasure in the form of Hobo: Tough Life 's storyline is a price worth paying. There's a real soul to this story and these characters. I explored every corner of this game, completed seemingly every quest and, honestly, I haven't felt so sorry to part with the game world in a long time. I feel like I'm seeing Frodo off to Valinor (Furgrim wouldâve appreciated the comparison). I guess my 160+ hours of playing and all the Steam achievements received would be a very eloquent declaration of love. Yes, it feels like the game is a bit unfinished. It's far from raw, it's fully playable, but it feels like the beta level, especially in terms of graphics. The music theme is gorgeous, though. The game itself does not crash, rarely â some bugs with the interface occur, but everything can be solved by pressing Alt+F4 or the button that helps you escape from textures in the menu. The game's autosave works properly and I never once lost progress when exiting on Alt+F4. The controls are nice, the crafting system is part of the âthe game hates youâ thesis, but once you get used to it you realize there's nothing wrong with it. For me, it was a downside that you quickly hit a glass ceiling while crafting â there are so many cool interesting items and recipes in the game, but you have no need to learn and use them. For example, in my hardcore playthrough I didn't get further than crafting and using food from the first two or three recipes, and there are eight of them, if not more. It feels like the developers planned to develop the game further so that these items would one day be needed to match the increasing difficulty level, but now it feels like there's no need for them, and that's sad. I really wish the developers had continued to polish this diamond. Because if it's shining now, what could be waiting for us if they finished their creation, showed us the Little Side and the Old Town and gave us much more space to feel authority as the newly elected Beggar King? The game has a lot of potential, it already has a lot of interesting things to offer and is definitely worthy of attention. I wish such projects didn't freeze halfway through. If any of the developers reads this one day â you guys are incredibly cool, thank you for such an awesome game. You have my heart. If Hobo: Tough Life will get an update someday, I'll be among the first people rushing to play it. 12 weaponized gnomes out of 10.
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Don't listen to people claiming that game is "abandoned" or unfinished. Could this game be more and have more content? Sure, but the game most definitely isn't unfinished. Developers finished this game and went working on other project(s). There's plenty to do (for a hobo). There's mini-games, side quests, main quest/main story, even skills and perks, and it all has it's head and tail. It's a cool little janky winter-time hobo simulator with neat atmosphere. I especially recommend it on sale.
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This is a very tough review. On one hand, it's not only a hard game, but also a grind that can leave you softlocked from achieving your "goals", on the other hand it's literally called "hobo: tough life" - so you should expect it being tough solely due to its name. On one hand you have a detailed and a nice city fully of NPCs, quests and interactions, on the other hand you have plenty of characters and places that seem like have been unfinished and were originally supposed to have a bigger role - e.g. the lady whose dog got lost and her "stuck" trust, Victor, Mahony and others whose trust has no meaning nor purpose, the unrelated quest regarding the golem, 2 missing blueprints, and other minor things. This is a masterpiece stuck in time - no further updates, improvements or deserved closure of all gaming aspects, but a very interesting experience nonetheless. I used save backups often so I could speedrun the achievements and story as well as I could, but if you're not careful, expect to play much longer than I played - if you want to unlock all the achievements and complete all the quests....
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Devs should come back to this one, Its pretty fun it just needs polishing around the edges. I feel if they were to add mod support this game would blow up more.
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Surprised the game is this good. Expected a more goofy fun arcade approach like Bum Simulator, but this one is more in depth. The survival element is done very good in terms of the homeless world. Your first hours won't be the easiest, but once you've figured it all out, the game is an absolute blast. Highly recommend
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Developer
Perun Creative
Publisher
Perun Creative
Release
12 Apr 2021
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