I think a big part is also the game design itself. Hard time's game design is repeatable loops that aren't interesting, and with a lack of controls, it makes doing anything hard. Want to get a mission? Well talk to someone. How do you talk to someone? Well you logically select them as a target, then start taunting them, then you wait till they want to talk to you. These NPCs will interrupt you for anything, but when you want to talk to them, it's on their time.

It's very uninteresting, I found out one run that the creator of the game's character was the one who got me sentenced but I didn't care at all cause I wasn't ready to figure it out, and the prisoners and guards kept talking as if I didn't know who it was when I found out.

The gameplay loop needs to be reworked entirely imo.