About the Game
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! A fully developed police role challenges you to tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living. Explore it with a wider range of vehicles, as well as animals and hundreds of fully interactive props & weapons. A combat system perfected by wrestling is further enhanced by mind-blowing gunplay that allows you to shoot at ANY moment! Reinforced by a creative crafting system, you've only ever run out of ammo when you've run out of ideas.
All now presented with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate, with a wide variety of camera angles to fine-tune to your liking. Feel the consequences of your actions with grotesque scarring and severed limbs, as you fight to keep yours intact for as long as possible! Rub shoulders with hundreds of other characters, and stake your reputation on saying the right words to get through each day that unfolds in real-time. A new dialogue system allows YOU to initiate conversations instead waiting for the drama to come to you.
Upon earning access to the inbuilt editor, you can save your changes to each character to make the world your own. To prepare for a life of crime, you can also blow off steam in a special "Fight Scene" mode - where you select WHO fights WHERE and with WHAT to see who survives! This even extends to multiplayer opportunities, where other controllers can choose any other character on the scene to either help or hinder.
All now presented with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate, with a wide variety of camera angles to fine-tune to your liking. Feel the consequences of your actions with grotesque scarring and severed limbs, as you fight to keep yours intact for as long as possible! Rub shoulders with hundreds of other characters, and stake your reputation on saying the right words to get through each day that unfolds in real-time. A new dialogue system allows YOU to initiate conversations instead waiting for the drama to come to you.
Upon earning access to the inbuilt editor, you can save your changes to each character to make the world your own. To prepare for a life of crime, you can also blow off steam in a special "Fight Scene" mode - where you select WHO fights WHERE and with WHAT to see who survives! This even extends to multiplayer opportunities, where other controllers can choose any other character on the scene to either help or hinder.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build v1.0.2
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Latest on Steam: Build 21619994
Update available
- Nervous breakdowns once again cause you to "lose control" of your character.
- Fixed an issue that prevented backpacks being worn from scene to scene.
- The map transitions between scenes are now optional (but remain strongly recommended if your spec cannot load scenes instantly!).
- New female flesh at #16-18 and new male flesh at #22-23.
- New head shave at #18.
- Robots feel the cold 50% less than a human.
- Surviving as a cyborg cop is rarer.
- Fights can no longer end from exhausting yourself after your own move.
- Cannot catch objects while handcuffed.
- Improved delivery of a rare betrayal storyline.
- Improved AI is better at finding alternate routes.
- Being underwater makes you 25% colder.
- Cars are parked properly in Fight Scenes.
- Selecting the wrestling arena for a Fight Scene now shows the ring.
- Adapted the timing of floods for 60fps.
- Ironically, the game console prop is available on every platform except Switch.
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- Fixed an issue that prevented backpacks being worn from scene to scene.
- The map transitions between scenes are now optional (but remain strongly recommended if your spec cannot load scenes instantly!).
- New female flesh at #16-18 and new male flesh at #22-23.
- New head shave at #18.
- Robots feel the cold 50% less than a human.
- Surviving as a cyborg cop is rarer.
- Fights can no longer end from exhausting yourself after your own move.
- Cannot catch objects while handcuffed.
- Improved delivery of a rare betrayal storyline.
- Improved AI is better at finding alternate routes.
- Being underwater makes you 25% colder.
- Cars are parked properly in Fight Scenes.
- Selecting the wrestling arena for a Fight Scene now shows the ring.
- Adapted the timing of floods for 60fps.
- Ironically, the game console prop is available on every platform except Switch.
- You can increase the "Population" to 200% for twice as much content in Fight Scenes! Characters are added/removed as quickly as you can tap the button - whereas holding it now takes you to a screen where you can hand-pick all characters by name. This function can be accessed instantly with a middle mouse click, and right clicks instantly remove a specific character.
- Fight Scene camera preferences are saved & restored for next time.
- New "Extended" particle FX option takes longer to remove splatters or eliminated opponents.
- Character outlines are now optional under "Display".
- Fixed an issue that may have caused extra controllers to not have their meters displayed.
- More intuitive target selection is more interested in those nearby (in the direction you hold) instead of randomly browsing through every single character, and dead opponents are more likely to be disregarded.
- More assertive AI is better at judging ranges in combat (especially with weapons), and considers jumping more often to get around furniture.
- Swinging weapons can become entangled (relative to the "Skill" and timing of the defender).
- New falling animations include slumping forwards or backwards against a wall.
- Lots of new gestures.
- New Middle Eastern headwear at #46.
- New female singlets at flesh #14-15.
- Slightly improved camera logic to peer in/out the police station car park.
- Alternate left-handed slap and lower slaps with either hand.
- Dropping objects from a crouching state no longer attempts to hand them over.
- Furniture can no longer be thrown through the far sides of a window without smashing it.
- Needing the toilet distracts you from attacking/grappling.
- The hands you attack with can be scarred with less risk of actually being severed.
- People with no arms favour kicks, etc.
- Having no arms makes it harder (but not impossible) to get back up to your feet.
- Missing arm limbs increase the chances of falling while climbing.
- No shivering animation while sleeping.
- Joining a gang changes your costume in real-time.
- Water is bluer and less transparent.
- Flame throwers render better at shorter distances and withdraw more slowly.
- The jury reacts to the prosecution & defence as well as the verdict.
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- Fight Scene camera preferences are saved & restored for next time.
- New "Extended" particle FX option takes longer to remove splatters or eliminated opponents.
- Character outlines are now optional under "Display".
- Fixed an issue that may have caused extra controllers to not have their meters displayed.
- More intuitive target selection is more interested in those nearby (in the direction you hold) instead of randomly browsing through every single character, and dead opponents are more likely to be disregarded.
- More assertive AI is better at judging ranges in combat (especially with weapons), and considers jumping more often to get around furniture.
- Swinging weapons can become entangled (relative to the "Skill" and timing of the defender).
- New falling animations include slumping forwards or backwards against a wall.
- Lots of new gestures.
- New Middle Eastern headwear at #46.
- New female singlets at flesh #14-15.
- Slightly improved camera logic to peer in/out the police station car park.
- Alternate left-handed slap and lower slaps with either hand.
- Dropping objects from a crouching state no longer attempts to hand them over.
- Furniture can no longer be thrown through the far sides of a window without smashing it.
- Needing the toilet distracts you from attacking/grappling.
- The hands you attack with can be scarred with less risk of actually being severed.
- People with no arms favour kicks, etc.
- Having no arms makes it harder (but not impossible) to get back up to your feet.
- Missing arm limbs increase the chances of falling while climbing.
- No shivering animation while sleeping.
- Joining a gang changes your costume in real-time.
- Water is bluer and less transparent.
- Flame throwers render better at shorter distances and withdraw more slowly.
- The jury reacts to the prosecution & defence as well as the verdict.
- The amber health drain is now optional (and turned off by default), so you're more responsible for making yourself tired enough to sleep through the night.
- Vacant gang leaders are replaced by another member, but your active reign is less likely to be replaced without warning.
- Correct dialogue for denying you're part of a gang, and leaving risks criticism from other members.
- Defeated opponents can be offered a chance to survive by joining a gang.
- Gang members can be questioned about their affiliation.
- Syringe liquid is drained correctly.
- Objects in your cell are more likely to be considered your property instead of disappearing for no reason.
- Non-existent moves cannot be "fashionable".
- Prevented illogical move transitions during an arrest.
- Wanted criminals are more likely to resist arrest upon being grabbed.
- Improved logic when copying costumes between genders.
- Improved consistency in how severed limbs heal.
- Weight missions are not set if your stats leave no room for improvement.
- Backing out of restarting no longer confuses the game in progress.
- Missing limbs reduce a character's weight.
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- Vacant gang leaders are replaced by another member, but your active reign is less likely to be replaced without warning.
- Correct dialogue for denying you're part of a gang, and leaving risks criticism from other members.
- Defeated opponents can be offered a chance to survive by joining a gang.
- Gang members can be questioned about their affiliation.
- Syringe liquid is drained correctly.
- Objects in your cell are more likely to be considered your property instead of disappearing for no reason.
- Non-existent moves cannot be "fashionable".
- Prevented illogical move transitions during an arrest.
- Wanted criminals are more likely to resist arrest upon being grabbed.
- Improved logic when copying costumes between genders.
- Improved consistency in how severed limbs heal.
- Weight missions are not set if your stats leave no room for improvement.
- Backing out of restarting no longer confuses the game in progress.
- Missing limbs reduce a character's weight.
Thanks to some of the more constructive feedback, we were already able to iron out a lot of teething problems:
- New missions involve delivering furniture, smashing furniture, and gaining/losing weight.
- Missions may ask that something be delivered to a specific cell.
- An extreme punishment involves having your limbs cut off!
- People with no legs are encouraged to go to hospital to restore them.
- Dying fades more gradually into the Hall Of Fame with melancholy music.
- Headless people are always assumed to be dead (and are properly eliminated from fight scenes).
- Gun fatalities are correctly attributed to the shooter.
- Discovered dead bodies are less likely to result in your arrest unless they were witnessed at the time.
- Deceased characters can no longer appear as jurors (and therefore no longer get revived!).
- Only changing a character's role from "Deceased" restores their missing limbs in the editor.
- The game no longer crashes when somebody wears multiple layers that could have prison numbers written on them. Only the top layer qualifies while the underneath layer can be painted any colour.
- Prison costume overrides can be previewed in the editor as soon as you navigate away from the "Costumes" tab or change their home block.
- Abusing the wristband layer to access an upper arm sleeve still paints it the correct prison colour.
- Hypocritical arrests are no longer criticized repeatedly.
- Wardens are less likely to be accused of "assaulting" or "robbing" a wanted criminal (although it's not impossible to be accused of going too far).
- "Assault" charges are escalated to "Murder" if the victim dies later.
- Arresting officers no longer lose the weapons they were carrying after a court case.
- Detentions are longer and enforced more strictly, but detained prisoners aren't asked to go anywhere else.
- Nobody knows where people in parts unknown ("Location 0") are when asked.
- You cannot spam sleep to fast-forward time when you're full of energy.
- It's forbidden to change your facial structure if you don't have hundreds of dollars to pay for the surgery.
- Flying/falling over the prison lockers is more likely to land you back into the middle.
- Phones vibrate more to be visible from a distance.
- Wardens can be criticized for sleeping at work instead of at home!
- Computers can reveal the personal information of other characters depending on the hacker's "Skill"!
- Civilians that get stuck inside the prison (i.e. fired officers) are no longer prevented from leaving (access is only blocked from the outside).
- Jumping (or stepping) into the police station windows no longer glitches through them.
- Looking at a prisoner helps to chase them out of a location (or into their cell) to lock it down.
- New arcade cabinet design.
- Objects don't always return to the exact same place they were taken from.
- Slight changes to the default characters (with more realistic ages).
- Washing in a sink cleans all limbs instead of just the hands (but half as quickly as a shower would).
- Restored the risk of a bad reaction to alcohol.
- Adrenaline rushes boost your health.
- Generated characters reset any lost limbs instead of inheriting them.
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- New missions involve delivering furniture, smashing furniture, and gaining/losing weight.
- Missions may ask that something be delivered to a specific cell.
- An extreme punishment involves having your limbs cut off!
- People with no legs are encouraged to go to hospital to restore them.
- Dying fades more gradually into the Hall Of Fame with melancholy music.
- Headless people are always assumed to be dead (and are properly eliminated from fight scenes).
- Gun fatalities are correctly attributed to the shooter.
- Discovered dead bodies are less likely to result in your arrest unless they were witnessed at the time.
- Deceased characters can no longer appear as jurors (and therefore no longer get revived!).
- Only changing a character's role from "Deceased" restores their missing limbs in the editor.
- The game no longer crashes when somebody wears multiple layers that could have prison numbers written on them. Only the top layer qualifies while the underneath layer can be painted any colour.
- Prison costume overrides can be previewed in the editor as soon as you navigate away from the "Costumes" tab or change their home block.
- Abusing the wristband layer to access an upper arm sleeve still paints it the correct prison colour.
- Hypocritical arrests are no longer criticized repeatedly.
- Wardens are less likely to be accused of "assaulting" or "robbing" a wanted criminal (although it's not impossible to be accused of going too far).
- "Assault" charges are escalated to "Murder" if the victim dies later.
- Arresting officers no longer lose the weapons they were carrying after a court case.
- Detentions are longer and enforced more strictly, but detained prisoners aren't asked to go anywhere else.
- Nobody knows where people in parts unknown ("Location 0") are when asked.
- You cannot spam sleep to fast-forward time when you're full of energy.
- It's forbidden to change your facial structure if you don't have hundreds of dollars to pay for the surgery.
- Flying/falling over the prison lockers is more likely to land you back into the middle.
- Phones vibrate more to be visible from a distance.
- Wardens can be criticized for sleeping at work instead of at home!
- Computers can reveal the personal information of other characters depending on the hacker's "Skill"!
- Civilians that get stuck inside the prison (i.e. fired officers) are no longer prevented from leaving (access is only blocked from the outside).
- Jumping (or stepping) into the police station windows no longer glitches through them.
- Looking at a prisoner helps to chase them out of a location (or into their cell) to lock it down.
- New arcade cabinet design.
- Objects don't always return to the exact same place they were taken from.
- Slight changes to the default characters (with more realistic ages).
- Washing in a sink cleans all limbs instead of just the hands (but half as quickly as a shower would).
- Restored the risk of a bad reaction to alcohol.
- Adrenaline rushes boost your health.
- Generated characters reset any lost limbs instead of inheriting them.
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Uploaded Sep 30, 2024
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System Requirements
OS
Windows 10
CPU
Intel(R) Celeron(TM) 1.1gHz
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
DirectX 11 compatible video card
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .RAR file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Hard Time III.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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Size
522 MB
Build
v1.0.2
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