YOUR HOUSE

A really cool spiritual successor to Device 6, Simogo's mystery text adventure on mobile. Your House has some really enjoyable moments of interactivity and gameplay, but ultimately the puzzles felt lackluster and boring, and the final chapter felt lazy, not to mention a puzzle involving diamond buttons fully broke on me, halting my progress. I wish the story was also told through playing the game and solving the puzzles, but instead much of the major story beats are told in cutscenes BETWEEN the puzzles, which feels forced and strangely paced. I can see a world where this style of game works with the gorgeous art design, but this iteration isn't worth it yet.

It's a shame this game only has 16 reviews. The creativity with which it handles the limitations of the chosen medium (black text on a white page) is astounding and playful, the visuals transport a very specific and unique mood, the writing and themes are timely and smart. If you like escape-room-style puzzles, stories about strong personalities and 90s pop culture, this game is for you. One of my highlights of 2025 for sure.

[i]Your House[/i] is a nice little puzzle-adventure that reminds me most readily of [i]Device 6[/i], Simogo's mid-2010s text adventure for iOS. What I mean by this is simple: the game is primarily a text adventure that you interact with by clicking bolded "links" in the narrative text (you can see this in a few of the screenshots, though most emphasize the graphical scenes which also make up the game). I found the use of text art pretty cool at times, particularly in the narrowing passages of the underground catacombs and the reflex-based minigames. The art style for the graphical scenes is this charming cross-hatched comic book style with few colours used boldly. Really quite charming. The non-text puzzles are generally pretty fun, though for my taste I prefer diegetic puzzles, meaning puzzles that make sense within the narrative of the world, and here the puzzles often involve a kind of non-linear association between various bits of information. To give an example that is very nearly an actual puzzle: suppose if you had some photographs of buildings. Some of the photographs had Xes drawn on them. Then, separately, you found a map of a city, which had the names of buildings. Now, matching the photographs to the names, you see the location of the Xes on the map. Now, your bathroom tiles can be pressed, and you need to press the ones whose location in your bathroom match the buildings on the map. It's not that it's a bad puzzle, but it's maybe a little game-y for me. The hint system is fairly generous, though if I'm being honest, of the three times I used hints, two were me having all the information and just not understanding the non-linear leap I was being asked, and one was what I take to be basically a joke puzzle (I did laugh, it was a funny one). On the story side, I think the premise of a young lonely woman mysteriously inheriting a house filled with hidden passages is pretty interesting, but as with the puzzles I thought the story was a bit abstract. Hitchcock had a term called a "macguffin" to refer to an object that motivates the literal events of the plot but that does not require any particular thought or explanation, and I feel like the game was a bit of a Macguffin chase -- your object is to explore the house, and you're mostly doing that to find things that don't really matter so you can explore the house some more so you can find more things that don't matter. All of the puzzles, documents, and objects all have a connection to the mysterious person who bequeathed the house, but the storytelling doesn't give us much of an emotional connection as to why we should care about them (or her). So on that level I enjoyed the game more as a proof of concept for some fun puzzles and a great little text engine than I did the actual story being told. But looking at the developer's previous games, it does look like this one is a significant expansion of their engine and asset production process, and so I'm confident the next one will be able to iterate even further :)

My Wife (she VA'd a character) and I played through this game in an afternoon and It was very fun! The puzzles were challenging, but not so challenging that we needed to look anything up outside of the game. I do wish that the tools carried over from chapter to chapter, so that each puzzle could build on the tools that you find in the other chapters, but it certainly doesn't take away from the fun of the game at all.

Unenjoyable. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy my time with this game at all. It didn’t start strong with a premise that I found unengaging, getting invited to a house that is full of mysteries and puzzles told mostly through cutscenes between the different chapters. I’ll say what I enjoyed first: the art style was pretty neat, and the premise of it all being in a book with the writing was clever and added some uniqueness; however, it did get quite annoying. When you had to navigate to different areas, you had to specifically click the text that brought you there in the book; this often meant spending time scrolling to get to the right word, which ended up being very tedious. Much of the game is, unfortunately, tedious, inflated by this process of moving between things. The biggest offense is that overall, it was just wholly uninteresting. I was never gripped by the story of the mysterious mansion and the invitation to it; each area also had a transition scene, further adding to this feeling. I found myself dreading continuing, and this feeling persisted. [h1]★★☆☆☆[/h1]

too buggy and full of escape room logic. the interactive text parts were neat but the rest leaves a lot to be desired.

I like the pop-art art style, but this is basically a book with pretty pictures. It is more text-based than picture-based. You find bold text to click; sometimes you can click on a picture too. It is a mobile game best played on a similar device. I can recommend, but know what you expect before you buy it.

un jeu qui ne paye pas de mine au début, mais une très belle surprise. j'adore ce jeu, un véritable coup de coeur. Si vous êtes friand des jeux à énigmes sous forme de livre, les livres sous forme de jeux et un passionné des casses têtes qui prennent bien la tête, alors vous allez être servi. Merci aux développeurs !!

Although I found the game fairly interesting at first, with its text-based mechanics and intriguing story hook, I was mostly bored by the time I finished it. Neither the puzzles nor the story offered anything special. Exploring the house by clicking on words in the book and then watching a short animation quickly became repetitive and frustrating.