CHANGE: попробуйте выжить на улице

Some bugs, but moderators are still continuing to improve the game for those who comment/report bugs.
From my understanding the game still has updates that add items and perks into the game.
Is does have a level of difficulty that is challenging but manageable with consistency.
Each character has different buffs/debuffs that requires the player to alter their playing style and the map is randomly generated with an option to move to a new area if desired.
All in all, a good game.

Hard decision to make, wish steam had a third middle option for a rating, but I would not recommend this game in its current state for the price. There are WAY too many bugs that cause the game to feel like an absolute slog and there is really only a single path to "victory" for each character so it gets very repetitive despite the leveling and unlocking perks/items. It lacks balance across what is offered with some aspects feeling way more developed than others. Some aspects and components of the game seem like stand-ins that feel like dead ends and probably should have been dropped.

The UI/UX is super frustrating causing misclicks often and is a recipe for RSI. Using a wacom tablet caused the character to just perma walk in one direction so it had to be unplugged. There are so many race conditions for clicking on events during closing times of locations and the 9:00pm curfew (also why not use 24H?) that can crash the game if a popup appears while another event is happening.

There is variety in the dialogue and events through the first playthrough and then it feels like you have really seen everything. I think the narrative could use some tweaking to compress the playthrough and items should be unlocked faster while you play or allow to unlock all items. Also auto-gather scrap like when you have the library book perk should be a default as this is one of the most tedious aspects of the experience.

I understand that the point of the experience is to convey the POV of someone suffering from being unhoused and how difficult he struggle is and it succeeds sometimes, but the grind detracts from the overall experience. Maybe something more like Jones in the Fast Lane would have been more compelling while preserving the message.

Overall there are way too many game breaking bugs and mistakes in the game to warrant a recommend. I found myself exhausted after the first playthrough after having to force quit so many times to get things working again. I started a second playthrough trying to roleplay a different character, but there is really only one logical path to getting your character out of poverty, so it felt very much like the same experience and the unlocked features did not add much as it felt like repackaging the same assets. There are some great things in here and the vision feels expansive, but also rushed and all the loose ends should have absolutely been tied before releasing a DLC to what amounts to an incomplete and frustrating experience.

I would recommend this game if some of the more tedious bugs and UI/UX issues were fixed or if there were an accelerated and less grindy mode.

Top 10 games. You can play this forever with tons of replayability value, game is long and extremely fun. Must play. An RPG where you explore the whole world and have to deal with managing currency buying good items and not being robbed killed or frozen by the weather if you manage to not die due to depression. Everytime you beat the game or die you unlock more things for the next playthrough which each time adds tons of things, you play as a homeless survivor and there are tons of different characters with stories and various abilities and perks to play with.

Amazing game, which believe it or not, it's extremely pleasant to play on the Deck. My only complaint is the LGHDTVBBQ+ tag since I don't see anything regarding pride events in the game, which is a relief and the fact that it doesn't have cloud save, so I can't transfer my progress onto other platforms other than my Deck. Other than that, the game is an amazing sim of which the devs showed lots of love for with their numerous updates and to be honest, I'm still amazed after pirating the first ever version of the game and jumping onto the bought Steam one, it was really an eye-opening experience.

Why does Change disturb us?
First I found the concept of playing an homeless weird and cringe, like it did not have respect for them. But after some reflexion, I realised that the most played games are about soldiers in real wars dying in trenches, without me batting an eye, and I started to realize the importance of Change: breaking the taboo of homeless people, and discover their life in a playful way.

A good sensibilisation game with a surprisingly addicting gameplay, a lot of content that you can unlock and make you reevaluate the perception of what is begging and searching for a home each night, with the fear of losing anything on a unfair event.

Sadly, there is a lot of bugs that are never gonna get patched, and that are ruin a lot of fun, but you can still enjoy it. It just stopped me from keep playing after unlocking the true ending.

A very good lesson shaped in a videogame nontheless.

This game does a lot of good things in terms of portraying the scraping by aspect of being homeless and having things working against you as you struggle to get back on your feet, but this game has a fatal flaw that can ruin your entire playthrough. Because the areas you're in are randomly generated and have random events, you are often faced with multiple things that drain your happiness stat back to back to back, such as you "had a bad night" in the shelter so your happiness dropped, then you beg for money and someone is unkind to you and you lose more happiness, then your hot drink which keeps you warm in winter wears off and now you're freezing and have to watch your happiness drain as you walk past a dozen buildings that can't warm up in, the areas are randomly generated so the nearest warming spot can be obnoxiously far away. And that's not even the fatal flaw I mentioned earlier, the fatal flaw is a negative status effect called depression that you get if your happiness stays below a certain threshold for too long. Depression drains your happiness each day you have it, but the only way to get rid of it is to keep your happiness above a certain threshold for several days. The problem is that there are too many things pulling your happiness down (including the passage of time) and there aren't enough ways to increase your happiness. You basically wind up in this downward spiral you're also locked out of doing things to better yourself like studying (which also warms you in cold weather) and working (which brings in money so that you can buy food so that you aren't starving which also makes your happiness go down). I tried looking up how to deal with this and there was a guy that raised the same issues back in 2019, so it's been 5 years and the issue hasn't been fixed. I get that the game is trying to convey the struggle, but because of the randomness of things in the game you can sometimes be put in an impossible bind which ruins the playthrough you're on which can be several hours of time lost.

This game is one of the best, in my top three. This game is so adicting and has a lot of modes to complete if you really like it. It also has a lot of meaning and each story was from homeless. REAL PEOPLE. It is also kind of sad because it simulates what real homeless would go through everyday. I'd recommend to people who really like games with meaning and choice games.

It's a roguelike, you can do a permadeath challenge (despite having Challenges in-game too) it has certainly opened my eye as I found out we lose happiness AND hunger quickly in a day. I've had my circumstances with money and starvation, to purchase games funnily enough. Yeah, I could relate to it a lot, I suppose.

Overall, decent game to waste your time on. I meant it in a good way. Regardless, I had encountered a bug where I couldn't enter a shelter because a homeless man is in front of it and forced me into a confrontation whenever I tried to enter the shelter.

I tried to go into main menu and return to fix the bug. However, I couldn't afford losing progress as I've spent the entire day already. Ended up spending the night outside.

That doesn't diminish the fact that this game is good. I highly recommend being homeless while playing this game for an IMMERSIVE experience. Definitely not joking.

I nice rouge like resource management game. Its pretty easy to beat, but its a fun game to figure out. The primary mechanic is balancing hunger and hope with money. It can be very slow getting going but picks up its pace. If you like resource management games you will probably enjoy this.