CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience , Simulating Life on the Street

Disclosure: This game copy was bought by the reviewer.

I will say right up front, the game is repetitive beyond measure. You will basically ask for money, pick up litter, and buy food to stay alive. You are thrust onto the streets and must live long enough to get 300 dollars and hold down a job. While this is easily done once you learn about the hostels and get a few key items, the amount of money needed to purchase items compared to what you get from begging makes it a slow crawl to the finish (took me 2 hours to complete the second attempt seen in this video). All of this is intentional for the message/subject matter depicted, but it is still a game at the end of the day. The character lacks any real development outside the backstory of how they became homeless, so we have to use the situation rather than the character to empathize with. There will be more causes, more homeless types down the line, but right now, the game is short and holds no real replay value.