Games like Hard Times
If Hard Times is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drug Dealer Simulator, Kenshi and Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Hard Times: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Hard Times also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Drug Dealer Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hard Times.
Top pick for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hard Times.
Second-strongest match for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hard Times.
Third-strongest match for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hard Times.
Ranked #4 for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Hard Times.
Ranked #5 for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
The Forest
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Ranked #6 for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Hard Times.
Ranked #7 for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Hard Times.
Ranked #8 for Hard Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Frequently asked about Hard Times
- Is Hard Times free to play?
- Yes — Hard Times is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Hard Times?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard Times are Drug Dealer Simulator, Kenshi, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation.
- Who developed Hard Times?
- Hard Times was developed by Radical Fiction.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hard Times.
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