Back Home

Season 2 - 0.201.02 The new episode is a new game, called Back Home, season 2. It starts where you ended season 1, in Elena’s remote Artist’s residence. If you can’t quite remember what happened before, don’t worry. There’s a recap in the game that will tell you. It contains new, better images, based on the events you have witnessed. So it is worth to take a look, but you can skip it if it all sounds too familiar to you After starting season 2, the game will ask you to load the save you made at the end of the last episode, right after the dream sequence. Where it says “please, save your game here”. Warning: you will see other saves as well. If you try to load some other save, that was made before the point I mentioned, you will get an exception. Don’t try this, it’s annoying. If you don’t have the save, or can’t find it, there’s no problem. I have included several presets you can start with by answering a couple of questions. In that case, some of the unique choices you’ve made before may be lost, of course. And they may influence the game. Some players, especially on Mac, may get a warning that a save is loaded that was made on another computer. There’s no worry, that computer was mine. So please ignore it. Season 2, episode 1 is the beginning of several story lines that will ultimately lead to several endings. There’s a substantial part included of one of these story lines (the one featuring Robbie). The other story lines will follow later. I think it would be a good idea to save your game at strategic points, to be able to play the others when they come available. Please pay attention whenever you see a light bulb appear in the top right corner. By clicking on it, you will get hints. S1 v0.4.p4.3 Episode 12 covers the fourth part of the fourth day of your voyage back home, hence the serial number 0.4.p4.x of this release. It contains the full story from the beginning up to episode 12. It’s available for PC and Mac. I haven’t tested the Mac version though. This release is the end of season 1. There will be a second, final season. Development of it has started already. To play the final season, keeping all the choices you made in season one, it is adamant that you save your game by the end of the episode. You will get a notification for that. You can load this saved game into the second season. A preview version of the first part of episode 12 has been released earlier on Patreon only. Saves made in this preview release should work if you only want to see the rest of episode 12. If not, please let me know. Episode 12 contains 945 new images and 62 new animations. Some old images and animations in previous episodes have been freshened up. You probably won’t notice the difference, but I do. There are three different routes to play the story of episode 12. Well, actually four. You can focus on Giulia, Victoria, or Elena. The fourth one is to focus on neither of them. Not the most attractive option, in my opinion. If you didn’t get intimate with Giulia on the second night of your voyage, Giulia won’t be interested much, so you won’t get her route as an option. You can’t play them all at the same time, so save your game regularly if you want to explore different options. If you played more than one route and want to know where each route will lead you in season two, you must make a save for every route. As usual: if a light bulb appears in the top right corner of your screen, you can click on it to get a hint. If there are blanks in the photo album, you can probably find them in parts of the story you haven’t played yet. S1 v0.4.p3.02 Episode 11 is the third part of the fourth day of you journey back home. Most of it takes place in Elena's house and... on television. When you arrive in Elena’s living room, there will be a bit of free roam. Look around, watch the art on the walls, open doors and windows. Some places you can go more than once and find different things. There’s only one way out. I hope I’ve made it obvious enough so you will find it. Moving your cursor over some of the paintings will reveal a bit of information about it. Mainly the title and the listed price. I will probably use this in the episode after this one. Don't look just in the living room. There is art in other rooms as well. The new episode has 546 new images and 32 new animations. That is not even including the many custom made works of art you will find on Elena’s walls. There are two branches in the story and a few variations at the end . I hope you like playing it as much as I liked making it. S1 v0.4 p2.2 There are 352 new images and 24 new animations in the game, plus a few new entries in the phone that include images as well. S1 v0.4 p1.1 There are 424 new images and 29 animations S1 v0.3 p4.1 The new episode is finally there for everyone to enjoy. It has been hard labour. There are 864 new images and 46 new animations, or somewhere near. S1 v0.3 p3.2 There are 414 new images (or somewhere near) and 11 new animations. S1 v0.3 p2.1 There are 313 new images and 9 new animations. S1 v0.3 p1.1 This is the 5th release of Back Home so far. S1 v0.2.1 Bugfix Bugfix S1 v0.2.1 There are 424 new images, or somewhere near and 22 new animations, making it the largest release so far. S1 v0.1.2b There are about 265 new images and 10 new animations. An issue with an image in the photo album, where the return-button wasn’t visible, has been solved. You can check the address book in the phone, but you can’t actually do anything with it yet. The story is available both in English and in Dutch. S1 v0.1.2a There are about 260 new images, 4 animations and 4 possible new entries in your photo album. Both the English and the Dutch text have been proofread to get out the worst mistakes. Pre-Release Initial Release