Waking Up: Way Back Home

Waking Up: Way Back Home

Nostalgic Brains · September 19, 2023 · Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Exploration, Puzzle Platformer

Waking Up: Way Back Home is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Very Positive91% · 95
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Waking Up: Way Back Home price

Waking Up: Way Back Home is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Waking Up: Way Back Home

A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!

Waking Up: Way Back Home — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Oct 11, 2025
Roby basically does what every kid has thought about at some point — sneaks somewhere he shouldn't, convinced it's a good idea, and immediately makes everything worse. The difference is that his version of getting caught means crash-landing on an alien planet instead of getting grounded. What works is that the game doesn't try to be more than that. It's a kid trying to find his dad, moving through a strange place, solving things as he goes. No pressure, no countdown, just the story doing its thing at its own pace.
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Recommended Oct 4, 2026
amazing short game, vibrant and beautiful graphics and sceneries. fun and enjoyable little story about human survival with puzzles not so complicated (in this case it's a bonus to not distract from the story)
Recommended Apr 23, 2025
Waking Up: Way Back Home is a nice little free game that I really enjoyed! A game with a decent small story really cool art style, very cartoonist and stylised, with a really amazing colour pallet. The gameplay is OK and although the game seems optimised for controller it plays pretty well with keyboard. Fully recommend it, after all is free, so why not give it a go!
Recommended Feb 26, 2025
its fun! but feels like the tutorial is longer than the game. firstly i though its a demo. hope there'll be more
Recommended Feb 23, 2025
Un juego corto, sencillo pero entretenido. Es de esos jueguitos que te pueden dar 30 min agradables, si bien se nota que no tiene grandes pretenciones la pequeña historia que cuenta es curiosa, por cierto no me esperaba el giro del final. Tal vez me hubiera gustado que los gases no fueran insta kill pero bueno tampoco me voy a poner de tiquismiquis.
Recommended Jan 14, 2025
The game is short but well made. The design ideas for various objects are better than some space survival games. They are as unique as the objects that are in extraterrestrials. Let's play.

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