Home
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Home is an adventure developed by Benjamin Rivers, released 16 June 2012 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS. The main story takes about 1.4 hrs to finish.
What Home is
Home is an adventure game developed by Benjamin Rivers and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Game Maker Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. While initial consoles were dedicated units with only a few games fixed into the electronic circuits of the system, most consoles since support the use of swappable game media, either through game cartridges, optical discs, or through digital distribution to internal storage. As of 2025, there have been nine console generations, with the current leading manufacturers being Atari, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, colloquially known as the "big four".
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Home holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and Graphics card with 256 MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Home launched on 16 June 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Spec Ops: The Line and Spelunky. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Home yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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