CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience (v2025.06.11 & ALL DLC)

A cold, indifferent city turns every spare coin, warm meal, and safe place to sleep into a meaningful decision. CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience is a roguelike-leaning survival drama about enduring life on the streets long enough to build a route toward stability. Its randomly generated urban layout, shifting circumstances, and harsh seasonal pressure create a tense but thoughtful experience rather than a power fantasy. The tone is sober and empathetic, asking players to confront how quickly small setbacks can become disasters when they have nowhere secure to go.

Each day presents a limited supply of time and energy, forcing choices between begging, searching for useful items, working toward education, maintaining hygiene, or protecting mental wellbeing. Hunger, happiness, health, crime risk, street reputation, and study progress all influence available opportunities, while encounters can offer help, demand difficult compromises, or derail a carefully planned run. Nights are especially dangerous, with winter weather and unsafe streets making shelter a priority instead of an afterthought. Character perks and scavenged equipment gradually improve survival chances, but progress remains fragile; one bad decision or unlucky event can undo a promising day.

What separates CHANGE from conventional survival games is its focus on social systems and personal dignity rather than crafting bigger bases or defeating stronger enemies. The city feels like a puzzle of routines, services, locations, and people to learn across repeated attempts, while the roguelike structure keeps familiar strategies from becoming completely safe. Pixel-art presentation makes it approachable, but the underlying subject matter stays serious and occasionally uncomfortable. Players who enjoy the resource pressure of roguelikes such as FTL or the grim decision-making of This War of Mine will find a distinctive, emotionally grounded challenge here, though newcomers should expect failure to be part of learning how to survive.