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Hardship

Also known as Hardship, h, hardship

Hardship is a set on a dynamic world in a strange solar system. Build your city, Design your buildings and progress through an in-depth technology tree. Gather resources, craft tools, manage citizens’ needs, and battle the elements.

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17 May 2026

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StorePublished 07 Jan 2026

Hardship: Now With 15% More Survival (Thanks to the Tutorial!)

Hardship: Now With 15% More Survival (Thanks to the Tutorial!) Hello everyone! It’s been six months. Six months of silence, six months of coffee induced hallucinations, and six months of wondering why I decided to build…

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July 2025
Performance, UI and bugs I've been hard at work over the past month, focusing mainly on performance optimizations, UI, alongside bug fixing and some refactoring, sadly nothing too fancy to show this month but some core…6 changesFixPerformanceStore19 Jul 2025
June 2025
New Models I decided to buy some assets to bring the game visuals to where I wanted them, I believe in the short term this will save me a ton of time making assets in blender and allow me to spend more time on the syste…1 changeServerPatch notes18 Jun 2025
May 2025
Visual ReworkOrthographic Design I've been working on refining the visual style of my city-building game, and I’ve decided to transition to a cleaner, orthographic-ish look. This update brings a sharper and more structured visual id…Event3 changesGameplayUI/audio30 May 2025
It Begins!I’m Marcus, the solo developer behind Hardship and I am excited to bring to life my dream game. It still needs quite a bit of work but I am beyond confident that I can bring my vision to reality along side a hopefully g…Announcement17 May 2025

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