Dear players! We're pleased to inform you that "Life is Hard Demo" is now available on Steam!
"Life is Hard Demo" contains only the tutorial for the game process, splited into 4 parts: "Manufacturing and building", "Rural economy", "Religion and magic" and "Battles".
By the way, we've almost forgot to tell you about new tutorial! Recently we had released a small update, which brought a replacement for the the current tutorial into the game.
We've completely reworked the tutorial, separated it from the main gameplay and, as we mentioned earlier, splitted it into four thematic parts.
Hares!
Dear players! We have some great news for you and eager to share them!
We've recently released an update, the main innovation of which are... hares! Currently they have only a decorative role. At night they're hiding into burrows and at winter and spring they're changing their skin. Aren't they cute?
Also we've started to rework the voiceover as we found it not suitable for the current atmosphere.
Many players asked to add an ability to speed up the time. In today's update this feature was introduced along with an ability to stop the time.
The results of recent optimization have appeared to be very good, but there're still some FPS freezes. We will fix them in futher updates.
New Steam Trading Cards!
Dear players! We're glad to inform you that we've updated our Steam Trading Cards with new beautiful artworks!
Fish day
None of my business
Wrong target
Friendly fire
Is anyone there?
Testing optimization.
We've started to optimize the game and the first stable build is now available in the main branch. You can expect freezes and FPS drops sometimes, but now the expected performance is 80-100 FPS.
If there is something you don't like in this update please let us know about it in the comments.
Also if you don't want surprises you should switch the beta branch to 'previous'.
Automation and so on.
Dear players! We've recently rolled out another intermediate update, which resolves a lot of issues of different aspects.
Many problems of save & load system were fixed (fixed, not optimized) on some systems. Also the tutorial has extended for a bit, so now you can see appearance of messages, when you construct some buildings. As previously announced, it has been added an ability to automate the work of farms, so players can focus on the researches of game world.
Very soon we expect the release of another update which increases game performance by 20-30% and allows you to play "Life is Hard" even on slow computers. We've also detected several bugs that we haven't fixed in this update, so if you found them — you are welcome on our forums.
Bugs & optimization
Firstly, I'd like to thank you all for your amazing feedback.
We apologize for the amount of bugs you had to deal with when playing. Please, report all the bugs you find. Now we are working hard on optimization to make Life is Hard have at least 60 frames per second performance. The bugfix will be available for downloading on the 15th of April or later. The save & load system shall become at least twice faster too.
Secondly, we continue to add new content to the game. Our artists are currently working on new locations (work is still in progress):
I don't want to spoil everything, the only thing I may say is that horseback riding will become possible.
