No Place Like Home Reviews

cozy love it

Really nice game! Cozy and fun!

This is a great game! You are not forced to sleep. You hear that? You can farm and work the map ALL night long! If you are a fan of cleaning, farming, and crafting games, this is for you. There is a lot of it. The game can usually be found as part of a sale with other fun games which make for a nice discount. Have fun!

Highly recommend. The farming and exploration vibes are cozy, and there's not too much to seriously challenge you. That said, I have some pointers. - NEVER use the last of any of your crops. You can replenish using bird feeders, but once you're out of crops and there's no more trash piles to loot, you're fucked. - Get used to the idea that you'll come back to an area later. That's fine, and you'll thank yourself for waiting. - GET THE BUFFS FROM RUDY. Seriously, you can save yourself a ton of frustrating searching around if you buy the extra loot and extra crops buffs from Rudy as soon as you can.

controls are a bit weird and i feel like there is something missing, but i paid like $1 for that so its ok

I wanted to enjoy this game, but it just has too many problems. For starters, there are no real characters in the game; just shopkeepers who don't have any personality. They’re there to give you quests and sell things. There are about 4 people, and instead of creating any other NPCs, they simply copy and paste the same character in three different spots. Not the same looking character with a different name, the exact same character just unexplainably in 3 different locations. Another issue is with the animals and enemies. Rather than spawning randomly, there are only a limited number of them in specific locations. Oddly enough, if you have too many animals on your farm—like more than 20 chickens—the game starts to lag. Given there is a set number, the developers could just cap the number of animals that exist to prevent this, but instead, there are way more than you’ll need. There’s a helper robot meant to gather items from your animals later on, but it doesn’t work well. It gets stuck on things around the map, so you might have 30 eggs ready for collection, but the bot might only gather a handful because it keeps crashing into stuff. It's frustrating instead of helpful. There’s a cooking feature too, but it is pointless. You really only need one recipe to make a "rocket chicken" that defeats enemies in one hit—except for the final boss, who you get infinite rocket chickens to use against. This is on the game's "hardest" difficulty; I don't know what the lower difficulties are like. An interesting feature is that you can place items anywhere, and you should because your farm lags. So once I realized this, and I was looking at a stack of 50 orange trees in my bag that I didn't want to clutter my farm with, I went and made an orchard in an area that made money laughably easy to get. Additionally, the game has issues with its environment. Your character can't jump and often gets caught on the landscape, even when you’re just trying to walk around. Overall, this game needed a lot more refinement before it was released. Despite spending a long time in early access, it doesn’t feel complete. You can see where the effort dropped off in different areas, especially when it comes to navigating through confusing tunnels in the first region, which shows some potential, but no such love is given to any other area of the game. Don't play this game, it's not good and it's obvious by the end of it's creation even the creators didn't care about it.

Honestly, the game starts off relatively fun. However, the game play loop quickly becomes very boring. It's not really anything more than fetch quests and an ungodly grind to pick up the trash in your way to get to the next objective. Eventually you stop caring about anything. The only challenge of this game is trying to stay awake. This next critique is a bit of a spoiler. It seems like the devs just gave up at the last stage of the game. They just give you an unlimited number of bombs to trivialize the entire last act, final boss included. The story was also pretty abysmal. If you like boringly simple farm sims, this is probably your game.

the controls really shouldn't feel this weird. fun concept but ultimately not for me

**TLDR; Fun but quickly repetitive, not worth full price** The game is really fun in the beginning. I started with the option to make everything for free because I wanted to play at my own pace and stay stress-free. But after playing for a while it became very repetitive. The world feels empty and honestly there’s so much potential here but it’s clear the game has been abandoned. The farming mechanics are clunky and frustrating. Crop placement is awkward, especially when playing with a controller. Storage is another headache, chests hold so little that you’re constantly crafting more only for them to fill up almost instantly, organizing them became a NIGHTMARE. As much as I wanted to give this a positive review, it really needs a lot of polishing and updates to be a game worth $20. If you’re still curious about the game, I’d recommend waiting for a sale, otherwise it’s hard to justify the price. Also, on a personal note, it gave me intense migraines and motion sickness, even after enabling all the comfort settings 😞

I got about 10 hours in, i was enjoying it for the most part. A little buggy and super grindy but relaxing if you don't mind that kind of thing. I finally found corn seeds after searching everywhere. You need them for one of the upgrades. Only found 4. I grew them and put them in the bird feeder to give me more seeds. They disappeared completely. I put my last corn in there, the same thing happened. I picked up the bird feeder thinking, maybe the glitch is where it's at (literally where it is at the very beginning of the game automatically.) My corn still did not appear. I picked up the grandpa birdfeeder too. Everything disappeared from my inventory. You cannot replace grandpa's birdfeeder. I requested a refund because i am not going to put more time into it if it's just going to delete my stuff. I don't normally leave reviews, let alone negative ones, but that really pmo. I doubt i'll get a refund because i have more than a couple of hours in playtime.