Skip to main content

On Sale: GamesAssetsToolsTabletopComics
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
A jam submission

Homeward 2View game page

Spiritual successor to Gone Home for Awful Summer Jam 2018
Submitted by level2wizard — 18 minutes, 35 seconds before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

Homeward 2's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Community Choice#571.5852.333

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Elevator pitch
Do you hate fun and love misery? You will enjoy the awesome world of text-based adventure games.

Describe how your game adheres to the theme
This is a spiritual successor to Gone Home that, if we'd gotten an earlier start, would have had some Doom/Eryx influences shine through as well.

Hopefully the 'depressed kid comes home' theme is nice and strong.

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

Submitted

I got lost in this one, wasn't really sure what to do beyond looking at a locked door and wondering why it was still locked after I used the key on it.

I liked the humour in some of the silly interactions I was trying in it, however. 

Host(+1)

This game has been disqualified for not having enough gameplay content to warrant judging.

--Awful Jams Staff

Developer

Fair.

Submitted(+1)

I love fun and don't care much for misery, unless it's someone else's. This game is super short. I can't even say I had a bad time, it's only two screens long. I played it twice to make sure. Why is the download so big?

Developer

Comes packed with its own Java runtime environment so it can run out-of-the-box on Windows.

I could provide a separate download that's just the jar, for people who already have Java installed, but I was trying to play it safe by the jam rules

Submitted

Smart thinking.