CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256mb Graphics card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.79. That was October 2024. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 挂机神话 ($1.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Pathway ($15.99, scores 43).
Of the 495 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 31, 6.2 times as much.
The drop-off
77% start to 10% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
41 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Got the true ending... very confused. But outside of the confusing ending, I got a lot out of this game, love rogue likes and this was a challenging game for sure. The replay value of this game is immense, but each playthrough will cost you around 1-3 hours. 3 hour playthroughs more at first, then once you get the hang of things it becomes easier, but the more challenging the longer it takes to get out of the "rut"...
This is a very meaningful game with a message it executes well. The bugs artfully sprinkled throughout, such as run-ruining instances where no matter what you do you get locked out of residency, for example, are a subtle nod to the fact that as a homeless person, you can do everything right and still get screwed over. But seriously it's a great game that is also fun but the bugs WILL inevitably piss you right off...
just unlocked the true ending but have yet to unlock all items and stuff. at first i thought that change: a homeless experience looked kind of bad? but the cute dog on the picture caught my eye. so i bought and played it and was hooked within 1 hour. i love the system with the perks, maladies etc, i love the realism, the park/shelter/nighttime events, the accurate representations of how people interact with the...
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Cite this score
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/926140/change-a-homeless-survival-experienceReviews 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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