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BancyCo · 2012-08-31

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Oct 28, 2014 (PlayStation Vita), Aug 07, 2013 (Mac), Oct 08, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 15, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Jun 16, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 20, 2013 (iOS)

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, Indie game released in 2012, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 1775 reviews).

0
playing now
67%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
3.94★
PlayStation Store rating (3,778 ratings)
1.4h
to beat · rushed 1.7h · completionist 3h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Home is a 2012 horror adventure indie video game developed and published by BancyCo. It was first released for Microsoft Windows on June 1, 2012. It was ported to Mac OS X and iOS in 2013, and to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2014. In 2020, it was released for Nintendo Switch as Home: Postmortem Edition, with an added behind-the-scenes tour mode.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 71k–142k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,776 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2013-10-29) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.742015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-05-20 — best price $0.742015-08-28 — best price $1.792015-11-26 — best price $2.002016-05-10 — best price $1.012016-10-28 — best price $1.192017-05-11 — best price $1.492017-10-27 — best price $1.492018-01-11 — best price $1.492018-06-21 — best price $1.012018-10-30 — best price $1.492019-01-10 — best price $2.392019-06-25 — best price $0.982019-11-13 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $0.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992021-01-14 — best price $0.992021-04-30 — best price $2.492021-08-20 — best price $2.492021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-09-06 — best price $4.992022-11-04 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-07-07 — best price $4.992023-10-16 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $0.742024-09-02 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $0.742025-03-13 — best price $0.742025-10-27 — best price $0.742025-12-18 — best price $0.742026-06-18 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2512026-06-01 — 2 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 3 pageviews2026-06-21 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 6 pageviews2026-06-29 — 4 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 4 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 11 pageviews2026-08-28 — 5 pageviews2026-09-01 — 10 pageviews2026-09-05 — 9 pageviews2026-09-09 — 8 pageviews2026-09-13 — 9 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-21 — 9 pageviews2026-09-25 — 13 pageviews2026-09-29 — 25 pageviews2026-10-03 — 14 pageviews2026-10-07 — 7 pageviews2026-10-10 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
9%
earned "Cause and effect"
5.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3100%1

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieShortHorrorMysteryThrillerAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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