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Ok so at first I found it pretty funny and a bit fun to play, but by the time I bought all the upgrade it's just a slog fest. the game is waaaaaaaay too slow. 

For example, there's a job you can get once you get a Bachelor's Degree that gives you 400$ a day (for now ignore the energy needed). to get a Master's Degree, you need 1,000,000$. assuming you're living in a homeless shelter and don't have the guitar, you need 2,500 days to get a Master Degree, and since each day needs 2 clicks (1 click to skip day and 1 click to confirm to work), that's 5,000 individual clicks. Not to mention there is 0 automation and you have to click on 2 different place so no way to mash quickly. 

The guitar doesn't help much either. I'm able to max out the mastery for Busking and eyeballing the amount of cash you get, you got around 300$ ~ 700$. Also, you can't button mash here either since there's about a half a second cooldown.

There's other things I have opinions on, but I'll just give my personal suggestions that would help make the game feel less slow:

  • Either reduce the amount of cash you need for Degrees or increase the cash you can earn in the late game with more upgrades (like "Increase earning from Busking by 50%" for example).
    • Cash earning is just way too slow and you feel like you're walking through mud just to buy 1 upgrade (aka. X's Degree).
  • If you don't want to reduce the cost to get the different Degrees, add a way to have automation.
    • You need some automation if you plan to keep the cost the same, it'll help make the game feels less tiring to play and buying the upgrade feels like an achievement instead of a burden.
  • Give more details on what mastery does.
    • The market where you sell things from the dumpster tells you how much extra cash you're earning, add that to begging and busking.
  • Add a setting menu.
    • The music is fun at first, now I just want it to stop. Especially with how slow the game is, the music just ends up making you more annoyed.

tl:dr; The game was interesting at first, but just way too slow later on with the required cash you need to continue is way too high while the way to earn more cash & the amount of cash you earn is way too low.

Sorry for the long feedback but I feel like this can be very funny and fun game to play and I'm just sad it ended up being annoying to play instead.

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Yea automation wasn't really my idea when making this version of the game, check the other comment someone left with the exact same frustration. I definitely appreciate the feedback though! I kind of figured late game would be slow and grindy, because that was where my original idea for the game came to an end and I was sort of just adding features for the sake of it.

Then I realized that if I kept doing that I would never post the game because there would always be something I could add or improve upon. I may patch this game in the future, but a more likely option is that I will make Hobo Sim 2, as I have a ton of ideas already for this game.

Regardless thank you for your feedback! I genuinly mean that,  didn't think anyone would play, let alone actually give me critical feedback. I really want to make a Hobo Sim 2 and make it the perfect hobo game.

I see, in that case I hope the development for the 2nd sim goes well. This has good potential and the excessive grind in the end just ruins it. looking forward to the release of your new and improved hobo sim!

I just updated Hobo Sim surprisingly, some stuff has changed!