Your Home is a visible novel that’s the closest recreation I’ve performed to studying an precise ebook.
In Your Home, you play as Debbie, a woman who receives a mysterious postcard on her birthday with an deal with and a key. The deal with results in a mansion that’s full of secrets and techniques and puzzles so that you can remedy, and the sport’s presentation does lots to promote the sensation of curling up on the sofa with an excellent thriller novel.
A lot of the way you work together with the sport is by studying via pages of textual content to know what room you’re in, what’s happening, what you possibly can work together with, and the place you possibly can go subsequent. As you scroll down the “web page” you’re studying, sure phrases, rooms, or places will present up in daring. Click on on these, and one thing will occur, whether or not it’s extra textual content showing on the web page or a bit animation that exhibits Debbie shifting from one room to a different. While you attain a useless finish, you’ll normally be supplied a hyperlink again to a hub space like a lounge.
Many pages even have attractive photos in a noir comedian fashion you can click on on to analyze in additional element or work together with to unravel puzzles. One had me word the variety of consonants and vowels in a reputation underneath an image to entry a secret space; in one other, I needed to click on on lavatory tiles aligned with buildings on a map to uncover a secret.
As you flip backwards and forwards between the totally different areas to seek for clues and suppose via puzzles, it actually feels such as you’re leaping between totally different sections from a bodily ebook. The sport even has a slim side ratio that helps you are feeling such as you’re studying a paper web page.
The sport is brief, which I preferred; I completed my playthrough in about three hours. (Although I did depend on a number of in-game hints, which can have helped me get via the sport sooner.) The plot, whereas attention-grabbing on a moment-by-moment foundation, wasn’t notably surprising or revolutionary. I additionally thought issues wrapped up a bit too neatly on the finish.
However Your Home’s choose-your-own journey ambiance was wonderful, and the puzzles have been satisfying to determine. I’d fortunately “learn” one other recreation prefer it.
Your Home is on the market now on PC, iOS, and Android.