Hobo Tough Life is on Steam Greenlight
It’s a survival RPG situated into a city environment. The game is supposed to be tough. You will have to deal with hunger, hostile environment, human unconcern and with forthcoming winter.
It's not just survival. We want to be storytellers as well. We will tell stories inspired by those less fortunate from real life, but also stories somewhat romanticized. We want to balance those approaches, because we are not trying to make some sort of realistic simulation, but after all we want to create a game.
You can support us on Steam Greenlight now:
We have recently made our trailer public. Here it is:
More about the game:
Game features:
- Attractive city environment to explore
- Tough gameplay with survival elements
- Branching main story with side-stories and quests
- Non-linear gameplay with replaying possibility
- RPG approach with surprising elements
Game description:
Explore
Hobo Tough Life is a lot about exploration. You will have a city consisting of several diverse parts at your disposal. But we are talking also about other kinds of exploration. You will have to find out certain game mechanics. You will meet a lot of characters. A lot of places and situations will be somewhat challenging to find.
Experience
Our game is not just survival. We want to tell you interesting stories. The city isn’t empty concrete desert, but a place filled with characters. You will be given possibility to maintain or destroy relationships with people, to get known in certain parts of city. You will also interact with figures like local authorities, ordinary people etc.
Survive
Our game will be RPG with survival elements. The game is supposed to be tough. Beside things like hunger you will have to deal with slowly coming winter. Also sandbox character of game can be challenging. Your actions have always consequences. It is possible to ruin things.
You can find more about our game on: www.hoborpg.com
I've already done this in real life, not interested in playing a game about it.
Out of all the ****** "simulators" that hits steam greenlight this game actually looks promising because:
1. The word Simulator isn't used
2. Looks like you put some proper though and effort into its design
If this is done with enough tact, it could really open up people's eyes to what it's like to being homeless. The decisions that are faced to survive in an urban environment...
Remember the Homeless Simulator game from Postal 2
well looks like it's real now
I like the concept, and if done like a proper survival game, where you need to fight/steal/scam your way through a particularly hard day, this could be good.
However I have some initial concerns (based on these screenshots), most hobos don't have near $236 (or whatever currency you're using) to use, what would the hobo be able to do with this money anyway? Is the goal of the game to establish yourself as a regular citizen or maybe even amass a small fortune considering you won't be paying the fat tax man?