Hobo: Tough Life
Fair · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 39.3h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 84% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 / AMD Radeon 7850, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in March 2026. 55 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Medieval Dynasty ($34.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Night of the Dead ($29.99, scores 44).
Players rate it 84 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 27 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 838 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 39.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 80, 2.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
82% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
124 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
"Hobo: Tough Life" is a superb game, a very focused experience where everything is developed around a single idea and the player is always spending their time on something thematic that reinforces the core concept of the game. The game world itself is a challenge and a reward to the player, exploration will result in a consistant flow of difficult to find resources or new methods to trade for supplies. One of the...
It's a fun survival game for a while and not that hard as many comments say. At the beginning it's exciting to explore, upgrading gear and shelter, but in the long run it gets tedious to progress in the story. Unlocking new character options and progressing requires lots of running around the map and ultimately got too boring for me to finish the game. There is a transit system to help with that, but doesn't...
Deeply unfun game, normal mode is wildly too easy and hardcore mode is hard in all the wrong ways. Each system reinforces one anothers' penalties until you're suddenly dying from everything all at once, and crafting/building takes ten times what it ought to take. Meanwhile on normal mode, you're just kind of allowed to succeed on everything without trying. Feels like the dev doesn't understand how to make a...
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Cite this score
Hobo: Tough Life scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/632300/hobo-tough-lifeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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