Hard Work

Hard Work (ZarioSide)

ZarioSide · July 20, 2018 · Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Crafting, Resource Management

Buy Hard Work from Steam at $4.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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$4.99
lowest tracked $3.99
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Hard Work price by region

Hard Work costs €3.99 in Europe (EUR), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$5.69 in Canada, NZ$6.29 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$10.89 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Hard Work offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.69 CA$5.69 — 1
New Zealand NZ$6.29 NZ$6.29 — 1
Australia A$7.50 A$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$10.89 R$10.89 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Hard Work

Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.

Start with little money and a small lot to build start your factory.
Buy the necessary equipment and employ your factory workers to reach profit.
Place your equipment at the right place and the production line will be able to make as much profit as possible.
A business can have different kind of struggles and you should be prepared to face them.

Create your own factory and see how successful you can be!

Key features:


• Hire workers, fire workers, give them a raise or don't and they'll probably quit

• Order materials(like wood, plastic, metal etc)
• Supply your factory with materials
• Convert materials to a final product
• Pack your finished product and stack the boxes on a pallet
• Wrap your pallets with the pallet Wrap Machine
• There's a forklift
• A leveling system that gives you bonus funds every 24h depending on your profit margins

Hard Work — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Oct 20, 2018
Oh dear... Do [b]not[b] buy this. Hard Work is really early access. Really [i]really[/i] early. We're talking pre-pre-alpha. I'm confused about what you're looking to get from an early access release, ZarioSide. There's an absolute minimum amount of content, and the controls and UI fight you every step of the way. (Why are camera controls locked when you have the build menu open??). The next steps of development are obvious, so you can't be looking for feedback. Nothing here (in-game and dev log) demonstrates any intention bringing this game up to a playable state in the future... So you can't be trying to generate funds for future development. I hate to be so critical, but it feels like you're really not that interested in creating a decent product. So I can't shake this feeling that you're more interested in [b]getting money[/b] than you are in game development. I really wish you the best of luck, and I certainly don't want to disuade you. I desperately hope I'm wrong. Please prove me wrong.
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 19, 2018
Well I coudnt get the game to work past a few steps....
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 28, 2020
Abandoned, concept holds some promise but there just isn't anything here to play as is, and it doesn't seem there ever will be.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 18, 2020
Very Bad and unstable game. was looking for something different than the normal stuff. that game is not even early access material! Run away! please do not buy that game!!!
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 30, 2022
Abandoned
Recommended Aug 13, 2018
I like the concept and the feel of the game. Setting up and running a factory to build products and controlling every aspect of production is pretty nifty. A list of bugs and observations I've found. - Item interaction has some bugs. - Employees get stuck on a pallet or a whole pallet of goods gets buggy and any employee that tries to interact with it gets stuck. - After wrapping a pallet of finished product, its easy to unwrap it when trying to load it into the truck and it has to rewrapped. - Sometimes employees get stuck on each other at shift change at the time clock. - Raw materials used for making products have no pricing that I've seen and completed products don't either, it's hard to figure out a business plan without pricing. - There needs to be more detail with the "quests" that come up to build a certain amount of products in a specified time period and an actual time for the time period rather than a number. - There's also a burglar that shows up at 2am every morning and will steal something. Kind of annoying. Still figuring out about the walls that can be built, but there are no doors that can be built for building entry, so I wonder if employees can get it w…

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