Description
"Back Home" is a story-driven rpg with several shorter episodes, all building on one storyline.
When Chess' best friend is left to die, he immediately sets out to fulfill an ancient ritual, ultimately reviving Julian in the form of a guardian creature, a Woodwalker.
While living together, Chess is soon certain that Julian has completely lost his memory of being a human, despite him still showing remnants of his old behaviour. Hoping to find a way to return Julian's memories while also trying to keep the Woodwalker a secret from the villagers that shun him, Chess starts his plan to help Julian slowly revive the forest around their home and return the fae and guardians back to the land.
Gameplay
A lot of the game involves piecing parts of several background stories together by exploring your surroundings. There are smaller quests, some optional, some needed to advance, where you can explore different reactions by taking along Julian or leaving him at home. The game does offer you the possibility to make your own decisions at times, but there are choices where you can't advance if you don't give in to a certain choice.
Each episode of the game has a small split ending that gives the player more information. While it is easy to acquire, you can't randomly enter the patth to the secret ending. Only by having found the split ending in the prologue can you find the split ending in the first episode, only by finding the split in the first episode can you find it in the second, on so on...
Characters
Prologue
The prologue of the game is finished already and uploaded!
It's shorter than the episodes will be, but it already shows what the episodes would be like.
Download it here, free
If you are interested, please try the game!
I'm very curious about any bugs you might find or problems you get stuck with, as well as your opinion on the story or characters, or generally any feedback as to what you like or dislike. Please feel free to message me or write a comment to this post about anything you'd like to say. Feedback, positive or negative, is always appreciated