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CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience is a survival game set in a randomly generated city, with roguelike elements. You explore, find items and kindness, earn perks and develop a character as you try to survive and escape homelessness. The game’s events and opportunities change based on how you play, with hundreds of perks, items and events to discover.

Characters and relationships

Choose from five characters, each with their own background story and maladies, and shape their story through your choices. You can meet companions and build a reputation or friendships with other homeless people and the police. Your actions also affect your happiness, including when you encounter a dog on the streets and decide how to respond.

Daily survival

Manage hunger, hygiene, happiness, crime levels, street reputation, study levels and other stats. You can beg and depend on others’ kindness, look for shelter, turn to drink at the risk of addiction, or make progress in other ways. You have limited time each day, and a bad event on the dangerous night streets can end a run, especially in winter.

You can spend nights in police stations, parks or shelters; visit bars, the clinic and the library; recycle scrap; and explore new areas and buildings. Find food, survival tools, clothing and other items, and unlock additional items for future playthroughs as you progress.

Stories and events

The game includes “night events” that draw on stories from people who have experienced sleeping rough. Its portrayal of homelessness is based on research and is intended to communicate the challenges of the experience through an engaging, empathetic game. Some aspects of sleeping rough are abstracted for gameplay. Each playthrough differs, and further ways to explore CHANGE become available as you play.

The game also features an emotionally composed soundtrack.