Home Sweet Home is pretty linear and most doors, stairways, and windows will be inaccessible to Tim. Unfortunately, most solutions will be to find an item that grants access to a path and move to the next complication. To find an escape, he’ll need to do all of these things, plus hide, in order to avoid dangers and solve puzzles or situations. Tim can run, crouch, use a flashlight, and pick things up in order to proceed.

Gameplay is super simple, and the game design is even simpler. Our protagonist is then bounced around from location to location seemingly by magic, and, with a nice helping of creepy flashbacks to their old apartment, he discovers that Jane is indeed around. Immediately, it’s clear this isn’t a normal house, and the situation isn’t as it seems. Once Tim escapes by hiding in a locker, he sees this girl disappear through a blood red hole in the wall. She also has the least threatening weapon imaginable in the form of a long box cutter, but this spirit definitely uses it to make your skin crawl. Just then, a female figure appears with dark pale skin, shoulder length, black hair, crazy eyes, and blood all over her mouth. As he stumbles through the opening level with the goal of escaping, he remembers he had a girlfriend/wife named Jane. Again, I know it’s not terribly original.

Home Sweet Home follows Tim as he wakes up in a house with no clear memory of where he was before today. With its issues, it’s not going to redefine the horror genre, but this book shouldn’t be judged by its cover. Sure, there is a stereotypical ghost girl walking around and looking to kill you, but Home Sweet Home separates itself from the expected. Well after the first level, this title takes a sharp right turn into Thai mythology that I didn’t see coming. When I first got a review copy for Home Sweet Home, I described it to a few friends as a horror game where you wake up in a house with no memory and a loved one has to be found.

There’s always a surprise when a game is more than meets the eye after you dig into it.

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