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How to Make it Home

by bodypoetic

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Estimated play time: 5 minutes (based on 1 vote)
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About the Story

How To Make It Home is a text game in which the player navigates an urban landscape at night. It’s about alienation, cities, wildlife, and helplessness. The world is dark and you are a misanthropic type, not fully human, beast, or spirit but some amalgam of them all, seeking to carve out a home in a place that feels unfamiliar. Your decisions illuminate your path, as you traverse the grease and heat of the city’s intestines, writhe in the grass, hiss at glaring streetlights, and wonder at mysterious creatures. Take a journey or two and see what you become. The night is calling, time to go. Perfect for fans of poetry, interactive fiction, nighttime walks, idly picking at scabs, or coding with Javascript frameworks. This project was made using Undum.

(Blurb by Rachel Stuckey. First published for the Welcome to My Home Page web residency, at the Museum of Human Achievement.)

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How to Make It Home is a game that takes you on a oneiric tour through an abrasive, stinking world, filled with dust and quivering flesh. [...] How to Make It Home is an interactive fiction of rare artfulness, beauty, and thoroughgoingness.
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Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System of 2025 by MathBrush
This poll is part of the 2025 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best game of 2025 written in an uncommon system. Voting is open to all IFDB...

Underrated (literally) games by Tabitha
I want to see the games you love that have flown under the radar--add your favorite works of IF with fewer than five IFDB ratings! Hopefully this poll will help more people discover and enjoy them.

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