Games like Hard Times

If Hard Times left you wanting something dark and replayable, you have options. Start with these games when you are ready.

Hobo: Tough Life
An urban survival RPG where you play a homeless person in Praslav, a cold Central European city bracing for winter. Scavenge, beg, steal, build a hideout, befriend the street's factions, and try to unite them under one Homeless King. Play alone or in online co-op with up to four.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Tense
84% of 8,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$7.49
Garbage
A fighting sim with management and building, played from the bottom of a grim city. You train bums, keep them fed and warm, build a camp out of trash and let auto battles settle your grudges. Dark, funny and meaner than it looks.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
66% of 1,009 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Homeless Life Simulator
You’ve lost everything. Live as a homeless survivor on the streets. Fight to stay alive, rebuild your life, and see if you can climb from the streets to become the richest in the city.
Dark, Replayable
68% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Urban Survival
Urban Survival is an open world Survival game, in a city setting. Survive the harsh elements of life on the streets. Find supplies for crafting make-shift weapons and shelters. Learn to cook using what you've got. Build a base of operations, grow your gang, and become a nomad king.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Survive the streets of a randomly generated city, one hard choice at a time. Pick one of five characters, manage hunger, warmth, happiness and reputation, beg, study, work and hope, and try to build a way out. A researched, emotional survival game where every run plays out differently.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
91% of 2,636 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99
Obenseuer
Obenseuer drops you in a quarantined district with an unfinished tenement in your name. Fix it up, rent rooms to odd locals, farm turnips, brew something strong, and poke at the district's dark secrets while trying to stay fed, sane, and out of jail.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Tense
94% of 2,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 527$24.99
Homeless Simulator
Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Atmospheric
58% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Bum Simulator
Bum Simulator is a first-person sandbox where you live on the streets of Bumsville: scavenge for scraps, brew dubious mixtures, build a cardboard empire and throw pigeons at people. Fully upgraded, those pigeons become a pigeonado. There is an actual story, a shopping cart named Carl, and chaos waiting to happen.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
88% of 4,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$19.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days to live with what you grabbed. Scavenge the city, fortify your home, farm, cook, keep the lights on, and hold the door when the horde arrives. Death just sends your memories into the next run.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Tense
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Hard Time
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
Dark, Replayable, Tense
89% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Rem Survival
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Tense
75% of 723 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Home Behind
A refugee walks 1500 kilometers through a country torn apart by civil war, searching for a lost daughter. Home Behind is a side-scrolling survival game about hunger, thirst, weather and hard choices, where every run plays out differently and every decision costs something.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable, Tense
83% of 5,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$5.99

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Build a quiet life in Cedar Shores: work, cook, decorate and drive through an open town that never rushes you.

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Bum Simulator

Scavenge the streets, build a home out of scraps and let a fully upgraded pigeon flock loose on the neighborhood.

$19.99

City 20

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and…

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HumanitZ

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INCUR Survival

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…

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CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience

Survive the streets of a randomly generated city, one hard choice at a time.

$19.99

Alien Squatter

You are a homeless extraterrestrial living in a futuristic version of Japan. Struggle to survive in this new style of RPG.

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Obenseuer

Obenseuer drops you in a quarantined district with an unfinished tenement in your name.

$24.99

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Sinner Maker

Run a village of flawed little souls after the Rapture, juggling homes, food, love lives and sins to earn your way into heaven.

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Homeless Life Simulator

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Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained.

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You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience.

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To Pixelia

Start over in a colorful pixel city, pick a career from dozens of paths, and shape each day at your own pace, with a farm waiting if you need quiet.

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Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Keep a fragile group of survivors fed, armed and moving through a grim, tense story where every choice can cost a life.

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The Last Plague: Blight

Craft, build and stay healthy in a sick open world, alone or with a friend, while a mysterious plague closes in.

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City 20

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Hard Time III

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