QuadrupleQ

Status update - Episode 5

Added 2025-05-24 14:19:25 +0000 UTC

Hello friends,

It's been a busy few weeks, but I've made some decent progress. I have mostly been working on the animations and I'm currently at around 1600+ renders and 95+ animations.

I'm almost done with the lewd scenes, just a few more animations to go. After that I still have a few story scenes that require a bunch of renders, then there's the phone stuff, secret scenes, testing etc. Currently I'm expecting episode 5 to release somewhere in August. Could be sooner, could be later, just depends on how development goes in the coming period.

On another note, I already posted about this on the Discord, but last Monday the Steam page of Having a HARD Time got removed for any players in Russia. This is because Roskomnadzor (Russian agency for monitoring, controlling and censoring media) found the game to be in violation of Russian requirements, most likely due to the game's LGBTQ+ themes.

Essentially this means one of the following:

If you do not live in Russia, this does not affect you and nothing changes for you.
If you live in Russia and you already own the game on Steam, you will not be able to visit the store page anymore, but you will still be able to play the game and download all future updates through your Steam library. Basically, by the time that all episodes have been released you will have the full game, just like the other Steam players.
If you live in Russia and do not own the game on Steam, you will not be able to purchase the game there so long as your Steam region is Russia.

For anyone that falls in the last category, hopefully Patreon or Itch.io can still work for you. Unfortunately, this situation appears to be out of my hands.

Have a good weekend everyone,

~ Quadruple-Q