Home: A Quarantine Story

Home: A Quarantine Story

Kyle Muntz · 2020 · Adventure, Visual Novel, Story Rich, Point & Click, Interactive Fiction

PC
Positive80% · 15
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About Home: A Quarantine Story

A young woman visits her family for the first time in four years—and accidentally infects them with COVID-19. Now, trapped at home in the midst of a pandemic, with her grandmother close to death, accusations and old tensions rise to the surface. Explore her family home, get to know her family members, and, if you’re lucky, attempt to survive the only thing more dangerous than the virus: her mother.

The second game by novelist Kyle Muntz, “Home: A Quarantine Story” doesn’t focus on combat or puzzles. In their place is a realistic, three-hour narrative that emphasizes subtle characterization, emotional complexity, and themes drawn from daily life. For fans of To the Moon, Gone Home, or Night in the Woods.

*A relatable cast of characters that capture everything you love (and hate) about family.

*Carefully designed environments that feel real, lived in, and full of personality.

*Vivid descriptions of everyday objects and the memories they evoke, written in a style reminiscent of literary fiction.

*A delicately textured atmosphere where every shift in mood feels important.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 26, 2024
7 found this helpful
Not recommended May 20, 2023
It's a terribly depressing story of a woman who was living in an apartment and he comes to visit her family home. She gets verbally abused by both parents. I like the siblings. Is forced to work hard labor as a pregnant person and is emotionally manipulated into staying by both parents. Even though all they do is yell at her and tell her she's lazy.
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Not recommended Feb 26, 2026
[h1]#tinygamereview[/h1] [code] The soul of a visual novel, trapped in and RPGMaker body, that dreamt of becoming a novella [/code] 🟨 [b]MISMATCHED[/b] 🟨 [hr][/hr] 🎮 🟥[b]Gameplay:[/b] nothing to really speak of; the actual [i]"gameplay"[/i] is like any RPGMaker-esque, and it didn't seem to lean in to being "point-and-click" (I instinctively played it with a controller because of how it looks). Most of the (sadly-inconsequential, but interesting nevertheless) background is told through inspecting random objects and environmental details in the way that, for example, switching between interaction cursors was [i]made for[/i], but are absent from, here. 📖 🟩[b]Narrative:[/b] its strongest point, hampered by what feels like a mismatched medium. A "true" point-and-click with snappier textboxes (and some edits for length) could have worked better; a visual novel, even moreso. Heck, I'd read this as a [i]novella[/i]. 🔊 🟧[b]Audio:[/b] vibey instrumentals, but not memorable 🖼️ 🟨[b]Visuals:[/b] felt like the setting/era, aesthetic, and visual style were less-than-coherent; dialogue fit the setting, backgrounds and sprites (which [i]I[/i] thought were independently-[i]gorgeous[/i]) lo…
Recommended Nov 15, 2025
Игра 'Home: A Quarantine Story' - это небольшая, но атмосферная визуальная новелла, которая очень хорошо отражает опыт переживания карантина. Сюжет прост: вы оказываетесь заперты дома из-за загадочной болезни и должны прожить день за днем, принимая решения, которые влияют на ваше психическое состояние и отношения с близкими. Что мне понравилось: реалистичное изображение рутины, тревожности и скуки карантина. Диалоги хорошо написаны, персонажи кажутся живыми, а их истории вызывают сочувствие. Музыкальное сопровождение и визуальный стиль создают гнетущую, но при этом уютную атмосферу. Нелинейность повествования и несколько концовок заставляют задуматься о принятых решениях. Однако, игра довольна короткая. Хотелось бы больше глубины в исследовании персонажей и их мотивов. Некоторые концовки кажутся обрывистыми. Тем не менее, за свою цену это отличный способ прочувствовать и осмыслить пережитый опыт пандемии. Рекомендую тем, кто ищет в играх не только развлечение, но и возможность для рефлексии.
Recommended Mar 6, 2023
[h1]Before I played Home: A Quarantine Story, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Not recommended Dec 3, 2022
Sound: 6 Graphics: 7 Story: 6 Gameplay: 7 Commands: 7 Fun: 5 Time to load / lag: 9 Bugs / Problems: 6 Final (my score, my rules - these is not math, punk) - 5

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