Hardwar

Hardwar is a trade-and-upgrade game set on Titan’s cratered colony of (Misplaced) Optimism, where you take salvage, escort and delivery jobs, build reputation and upgrade your ship while trying to escape.

The time is set after the future, on Titan’s last crater cluster, a colony called (Misplaced) Optimism. It is a hostile place of mining operations, artificial oxygen refineries, and dwindling resources, where corporations and mutant underworld cartels compete for what remains.

You play an operative trying to earn money and get off Titan. Work centers on trade, delivery, escort, salvage, and later more dangerous jobs such as bounty, assassination, and demolition. Reputation and credit are needed to improve the Moth, your ship and main asset.

The city’s lightwells power ships and craters, but they are contested. As your Moth is upgraded with better software, hardware, and firepower, you gain more cargo capacity and more enemies. Loyalty is rare, and serious criminal behavior can bring payback.