Can't progress past second day.

[Vortyrion]

I'm on my second day and I can't progress pass it. The time froze at 02:00AM and don't change. I don't have money to pay for my room and don't have an option to negotiate something about it. I don't have a dialogue option with Kim to end our day or anything different from the regular options. And I can't use the bench, because Kim is with me. Is that a bug or I am missing something?

[Nokturnal]

It's a bug and/or design flaw that they definitely need to fix.

Apparently someone said if you finish up the "P-ssing Contest" Task by talking to Kim, it'll allow you to click on your Door to your room to allow you to send Kim away and sleep. Though I'm pretty sure I finished that task and still couldn't debrief Kim/sleep.

[Du-Vu]

Have you exhausted all dialogue with Garte? Asked Joyce for money? Sold everything you can sell at the pawn shop? I've heard Cuno can also let you stay in his shack, but I don't know what's required for that.

[Felix]

I think it's a bug. I was able to sell enough postcards to get up to 20 real. Is the pawnshop an option for you?

I think I read another post that mentioned going through Kim's dialogue about the 'pissing contest' resolved this bug.

[Brother PaciFist]

I dont know what i am doing wrong. My character is swiming in real and has a free room on day 3.

Kim gives you help if you ARE a good cop.

The lady at the boat gives you money if you ask nice on day 1. Volition check

Garte the cafetaria manage lets you sleep for free if you threaten him nicely on day 1.

The union boss claire gives you money to get over the 2 start days, because he is a nice guy and you want to be friends with him. Dont you? You can do an additional side quest for him later. and another on day 3. for money.

You can collect tarde with the plastic bag found before the book store. There are many items hidden in the game world that can be sold for money or not.

There are thought constructs that give some money, like liberal thought. 1 real per liberal dialogue option.

I dont have money problems and bought nearly everything on the market, except the track shoes.

Have fun.

[DynamiteBonaparte]

bought the game on GoG. same problem here. im stuck at night time and i cant move the clock foward (no matter what i do). cant get into my hotel room and Kim wont leave. i hope they fix this bug soon. great game but this bug is game breaking.

[Vortyrion]

I think the game either should have some kind of end game condition instead of that 02:00 AM time freeze (It's really feel like a bug even if it's design decision)
Or the game should give you other options that will inflict some kind of penalties if you do not manage to get the money.
Looks strange to me that you can decide to be a Hobocop, but not sleep on a bench or something similar. (I didn't embrace the Hobocop though and that is why I think didn't get the option to ask Joyce for money)

I was trying to role play a character that will not take bribes, beg or steal anything that is not nailed and that got me locked second night. I used all the relatively honest ways to get money to pay for the first night.
It's a shame, I fell so much freedom in everything else in that game.
I have to replay the whole second day in order let Kim sell his awesome rims for me the first night. At least was touchy moment :-)

The game is awesome I don't mind to much to have to replay the whole day, but still I think that this is one aspect that the game can improve. :-)

Btw I bought the game from GoG :)

[DynamiteBonaparte]

lets hope this "bug" will get the attention of the devs. im sure normally Kim should be like "lets call it a day" and go to sleep and then we should be able to sleep rough on one of the various benches placed in the game world. i also did some new things in the game and the clock doesnt move foward and im sure that is definitely not a design choice but a bug since it normally does move foward when you have new dialogue or explore new areas. i managed to get to 02:14 AM but not further. really cool game and i dig playing a bukowskian character. i like that im not forced to play another power trip fantasy trope. its refreshing. cant identify much with somebody like Gerald of Rivia the white wolf and slayer of men and conqueror of babes or some other knight in shining armor trying to save the world or rule it with near superhuman power. an impressive first effort and easily one of the coolest and most edgy rpgs i have played so far.

i really hope i dont have to replay the second day. i did a lot of stuff and made a lot of mistakes and i dont want to have to redo both which i certainly would try to do because i stand by my decisions. good or bad :P

[Hideous]

I encountered the same issue. It was past 2 am on second day and suddenly there was nothing I could do to advance the game. So I went to look for help and I found the following thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/632470/discussions/0/1609400247620378701/

Apparently if its past 2 am on second day and you don't have enough money you are bit out of luck and need to reload. Alternatively there is instructions how to edit the save and add the missing money, which I ended up doing, since I didn't want to replay several hours.

I do love the game, but what I found bit frustrating is if money early on is this important why there are so many quest you can complete with the help of money, since without buying the items needed I would have had enough money. Sure enough those might be bad choices but let me keep on playing with the bad choices instead of having to reload.

[Aria Athena]

You only need to pay for day 2. You can't sleep on a bench even without Kim and the issue seems to be the cold. Afterwards there is an old lady that let's you sleep for free in a shack.

[Lruce_Bee]

Yeah, me and my wife were around 23 hours invested & at day 2, trying to figure out how the hell we could get to sleep to dump your partner and get back to the body to collect the boots etc. We just couldn't collect enough money to get to sleep for the night, so we were wandering around for hours hoping to pick up a stash of cash, loose bottles etc to collect and sell for enough money to pay the hotel manager.
It dawned on us both after wasting 2 or 3 hours that it wasn't going to happen and that the game was in a critical fail state loop. No way of proceeding whatsoever. This is a fatal QA bug that should have been picked up during testing or at least give the player some way of getting to sleep in order to proceed. There is absolutely no indication that you are actually stuck. No visual clues, no messages or hints telling you what you need to do.
The only way to remedy this situation, was to edit the save file that allows you to increase you wallet with enough cash to pay the hotel manager for the room for the night. Absolutely game breaking bug imo and spoiled the flow and progression of the game to the point of being incredibly frustrating. A very serious bug that definitely needs addressing.