Home Sweet Home Reviews

I LOVE IT

Good game

Scary and fun except for the last part

The last 25% of this game is an absolute STINKER! The stanley knife ghost isnt scary theyre ANNOYING. a small inconvenience will set you back 20 MINUTES. and the game ends on a CLIFFHANGER for NO REASON. I DISAVOW

[h1]Overrated game. Boring and tedious with repetitive sequences. Looks 10 years older than it is.[/h1] [i]Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.[/i] [h2]Story[/h2] You play as Tim, and you are looking for your missing wife Jane and you have to go through nightmarish environments to find her. [h2]Gameplay[/h2] Home Sweet Home is a single-player, first-person survival horror and puzzle game. You have no weapons, only a flashlight. You have to avoid and sneak around enemies to progress. There are lockers that you can hide in as well. If you get caught you have a chance to escape with a QTE, but you will take some damage. The game has the same type of gameplay as Outlast, where you have to sneak and find items to progress, but Outlast is so much better. [h2]Environment & Scares[/h2] The game focuses on horror elements drawn from Thai folklore. During the majority of the game, there is a ghostly thai girl with a boxcutter that is walking around that you have to avoid. There are some cheap jump scares, but the game focuses a lot on stressful chase sequences if you are spotted. The environment does have an eerie atmosphere, and would have worked better if the enemies were scarier. [h2]Visual Design & Sound Design[/h2] The game is from 2017, but it looks like it’s 10 years older than that. It looks pretty bad playing this in 2025. The sound design was not the best either, and sometimes it was hard to hear where some sounds came from. The sound effects were not very scary and the voice acting was not that good. [h2]Constructive Criticism[/h2] I thought this game was pretty boring. The stealth sequences were boring and very annoying if it’s a long one and you die at the end. The game does not have enough checkpoints, so you have to restart the whole stealth section when you die. This just made it frustrating and tedious, and not scary. If it was a cutscene at the start of the section, you have to rewatch that as well, you can’t skip it. The Thai girl was not very scary, and it looked kinda ridiculous when she caught you. It wasn’t scary, it just made me laugh. The Preta entity was not scary either and looked like a giant terminator that was just annoying. When the Thai girl spotted me and started chasing me I tried to run away, closing doors behind me to slow her down while I was searching for a locker to hide in. This did not work very well, as she always caught me. She was too fast and the doors did not seem to slow her down, which was annoying. The environment and these Thai girl sequences got very repetitive. This game actually bored me so much that I quit after 2 hours and fast-forwarded the game on a YouTube walkthrough, and I’m glad I did because it was just more of the same, boring, tedious sequences. [h2]The Verdict[/h2] I have played many horror games, many really good ones. Home Sweet Home is not the worst horror game I have played but far from the best. I think I’ve been a bit spoiled from all the good horror games made by Frictional Games and others like Outlast, Madison, Visage and more. I know that this is an Indie game, but I’ve played so much better. People who think this is a good horror game can't have high standards. [h2]Rating: 3/10[/h2]