http://homehorror.com/

Oh my god. I just played through this game finally, after having gotten it with the Indie Royale Halloween bundle.

It's chilling. I recommend it entirely. It's pixelly, but it's one of the best gamifications of the term "psychological thriller" I've ever played.

Anyone else here played it?

I got it on Steam, but I have yet to play it. Since it's DRM free I have the game sitting on my thumbdrive; I think I will try running it on WINE later. It looks promising enough, actually.

How creepy is it? I want to try it sometime as I also got the Indie Royale, but haven't had a chance yet.

Well, it's about an hour long, and it goes back to the old horror philosophy of "give the viewer/reader/player just enough to guess his way around the rest and watch him squirm in horror when he connects the dots we've given him."

EDIT: They recommend you play through it all at once, even though it saves, and I agree. I played through it all at once, but it's clear that if you quit and come back, there's a disconnect with the immersion factor that would ruin it.

I got it from Steam, and finished twice. It's a great indie game and I got two different endings :)

By the way, I have an extra Steam key for this game, and I'll give it as a prize for my next "Small Giveaway" in the next couple of days (too many giveaways right now...)

I actually don't want to replay it. My ending was vague, and I feel like it was intentionally so, so I'd like to keep the sanctity of it intact, myself.

But I understand the curiosity. Quite a bit, in fact.

Interesting, I'll move this to near the top of my endless backlog.

I know it sounds weird, but I like buying indie bundles for a few games that look interesting, then later on finding a gem in them.

I played it through several times recently. Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed. The problem with combining "choose your own adventure" with "mystery" is that if you have to set up your clues so that any of several possible outcomes could make sense... the end result is that none of them really make sense. I have no objection to ambiguity and "making up your own explanation", but Home just... never came together for me. It felt more like a confused mess than a mystery.

Another big problem I had was that the game's script didn't always react faithfully to my in-game choices - it would sometimes assume that I had seen or done things that I had deliberately avoided that run-through, or would fail to acknowledge things that I had done. In a game where the narrative thread basically is the gameplay, that kind of jarring, immersion-breaking continuity error is just inexcusable.

I really wanted to like this game, and it did build a decent atmosphere on the first play-through, but it never paid off for me. But, it's short, so if you already own it, play it and make up your own mind.

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