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Homebody
Developer Game Grumps
An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy) From the Steam store page
284 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
90
LovedLoved
176 positive · 19 negative
95% range 85–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 176 | 19 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 29 | 4 | 47 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
649 of 695 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
90% recommend · 173 yes, 19 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 192 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (697 of 744 positive).
Players praise the game's psychological depth and emotional impact, especially its exploration of anxiety and depression. [1][2][3] Many find the puzzles clever and well-integrated, though some become frustrating without hints. [4][5][6] Some reviewers note the horror is more atmospheric than scary, with a focus on tension and story. [7][8][9]
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- [15]
I have mixed feelings on this game. It has a very strong start, but as things go on it becomes quite annoying and tedious. The wandering killer largely only exists to ruin runs where you are trying to do multiple timed puzzles and is otherwise a non-entity. The puzzles aren't bad overall, but if you get a little stuck it becomes immediately incredibly frustrating as you wander the house avoiding the annoying …
- [1]
Horror in Your Own Head. An extremely niche yet underrated and strangely nostalgic P&C horror gem that I stumbled upon in 2023 and hold dear to my heart. I think I bought it at full price with #NoRegrets. Buckle in, because hooo boy, this is going to take a few paragraphs outta me. Perhaps I bought Homebody because it reminded me of a lovechild between Groundhog Day, Mulholland Drive, The Cabin in the Woods, House …
- [2]
I knew this game was about anxiety and depression when i started, as it says in the warning before you play this game, but even then i did not expect this to affect me so emotionally. It left me crying for a few minutes after i finished it for reasons i can't or don't really want to put into words in this review. The game play itself was very enjoyable. Felt like an old PS1 type horror game with a few different ways …
- [5]
To put it simply: it's the best horror puzzle game I've played over the past decade, right before Crow Country. Homebody is reinventing the retro-horror game genre by far. The puzzle and level design are a great fit for the real-time system that serves both the exploration part and the survival one. You'll never have any weapon to fight back, but your best arm is your logic and the knowledge of the space you'll …
- [4]
AN ABSOLUTE GEM. Unique, clever, creative, fun, intriguing and titillating as all hell. It's ironic how some seasoned puzzle-game developers could only DREAM of making puzzles that makes this much sense. There's a part with a lamp that's a liiittle convoluted, but the use of a walkthrough/tips in-game through characters is so organically scripted, it's easy to trust that you'll find the solution in the game. …
Summarised from 34 of the 264 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Homebody talk about clever and logical puzzles with in-game hints; those who didn't talk about some puzzles become tedious and frustrating. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 284 · most liked firstI'd been wanting to do fanart for the indie horror game, Homebody for a while now. That's a game that's gonna stick in my mind for a while not specifically because of the scares but the way it explored isolation, ocd, and being unable to talk to people about what's really going on with you.
positive · AI labelView post →⚠️THE SCHEDULE I MADE REAL FAST CUS I FORGOT ABOUT IT⚠️ 🛗 PLAYING ROBLOX REGRETEVATOR IN 30 MINUTES! ⌛️ SATURDAY - Game Grumps' Homebody 💙 SUNDAY - Chill Reading of Cringe Gacha Stories! 🎨 also featured art by @topazscorpio.bsky.social !
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you heard of Homebody? Because this is a game that has infested my thinking for literal years at this point. I'm kind of at a loss for words for finally being done with this project. I hope you enjoy it. youtu.be/mnnPxHW4jP4
positive · AI labelView post →When we thought about the environments in Homebody, we weren’t afraid of variety. Even though the game takes place in an old house, the story called for bizarre locations. There’s a charm in retro horror games where the places you’d visit were often wildly unique despite a linear/contained story.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have mixed feelings on this game. It has a very strong start, but as things go on it becomes quite annoying and tedious. The wandering killer largely only exists to ruin runs where you are trying to do multiple timed puzzles and is otherwise a non-entity. The puzzles aren't bad overall, but if you get a little stuck it becomes immediately incredibly frustrating as you wander the house avoiding the annoying run-ender trying to find what you are missing. Getting one-shot as you round a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of those cases where the thumbs up/thumbs down system feels really limiting. I don't want to dunk on a small indie developer who clearly poured a lot of passion into this game, but I also can't in good conscience recommend it. Homebody does have a lot of positives: Cozy atmosphere, cool retro graphics, an original and worthwhile story. While it borrows its look from early survival horror games, it's not a survival horror game. There's no combat, no inventory management and very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall I find this game more annoying than scary or interesting. I think the game gets in the way of itself too often. This is a timeloop game and in theory I should be intrigued whenever I loop resets to see some new interesting tidbit told through a cutscene. But these scenes were way too long, I found the characters dialogues boring most times, and I didn't have any connection with the main character's issues of OCD/agoraphobia. While making progress, I found some good clues to try out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔴🤖 Home is where the body is... ? ⛄ JOLLY JAMBOREE with @gamersoutreach.bsky.social CONTINUES!! We're playing Homebody! Going in blind, but apparently it's a Game Grumps game??? 👀 🔗 twitch.tv/chuduuuu #vtuber / #indiegame / #horrorgame
neutral · AI labelView post →If you guys are up for it, I will be streaming on twitch a horror game called Homebody. www.twitch.tv/psudonym
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for an awesome Halloween-y game? Never a bad time to pick up Homebody, a time looping survival horror experience with excellent puzzles 👀🔪
positive · AI labelView post →I was enjoying the game at first, but then it just started to feel like a chore and I wasn't enjoying it anymore. The puzzles were neat and keeping hints through deaths was a good idea, but then hints just kept getting stupider, puzzles weren't working for some godforsaken reason, I had to keep exiting and reentering the game just so that I could try to solve something again, it just became annoying to play which sucks because I really was enjoying it for the first hour and a half or so. Also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another weekend video game stream for funsies, continuing with Homebody, a very thoughtful horror game that I hope to finish soon. www.twitch.tv/psudonym
neutral · AI labelView post →⚪🤖 INTERESTING! 🔪Homebody is a puzzle game with horror from anxiety. Anxiety from both its story and timer. This combo makes it pretty unique *BUT* I don't know a lot of people who might enjoy that 😂 hard to find an audience 🤔 thanks for chillin chattin lurkin 💛 #vtuber / #horrorgame / #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →i am playing HOMEBODY. you know. you wouldn't expect "horror game published by Game Grumps" to be good but.. it's actually good! essentially Time Loop Clock Tower With A Mental Health Narrative And Nancy Drew Puzzles and it works way way way better than i expected from that spiel
positive · AI labelView post →On the other hand, I'm halfway through Homebody and it's great so far. Clocktower inspired game with intuitive/rewarding puzzles and smooth pacing. You try to escape a house through perfecting timeloops while avoiding a freaky stalker. Not quite scary but a nice chill survival-horror experience!
positive · AI labelView post →The fourth card for my indie game tarot deck! The Hermit is Emily from Homebody. I’m not usually a horror fan but the narrative in this game really stuck with me.
positive · AI labelView post →This would be a fun game for someone who wants a high-stress time-sensitive puzzle-solving experience like an escape room but it otherwise falls pretty flat. Any atmosphere or tension vanishes quickly after the second or third respawn and the stalker/slasher basically just becomes a tool to quickly respawn when you want to speed things up. After the first couple of respawns, I pretty much gave up on gaining any insight into the characters too and found myself only interacting with them when I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're streamin tonight! I've been wanting to stream this one for a while- Homebody! A very well received developed by the Game Grumps. Come hang out tonight! #GameGrumps #spoopyseason #indiegames #smallstreamer #pngtuber #twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay! Gonna go live with a second stream of Homebody and see if we can finish this game. It's really something interesting.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨HEY LISTEN✨ I’M LIVE OVER ON #TWITCH!!!!! It’s time for some 🌙NIK AT NIGHT✨we’re diving back in to my current spooky puzzle game Homebody 👻 Come hangout for a silly goofy and spooky good time 🥰 💚🖤💚 twitch.tv/thenerdnikki
neutral · AI labelView post →Horror in Your Own Head. An extremely niche yet underrated and strangely nostalgic P&C horror gem that I stumbled upon in 2023 and hold dear to my heart. I think I bought it at full price with #NoRegrets. Buckle in, because hooo boy, this is going to take a few paragraphs outta me. Perhaps I bought Homebody because it reminded me of a lovechild between Groundhog Day, Mulholland Drive, The Cabin in the Woods, House of The Devil (Ti West's film, one of my favourite slow burns) and 12 Minutes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →💚🖤SCHEDULE TIME🖤💚 Another wonky Tuesday Wednesday Friday week but I did too much socializing this weekend and I need to recharge. Tuesday we’re changing things up and playing Homebody! Why? Because the Perseid meteor shower is on Tuesday and that’s when the game takes place!
neutral · AI labelView post →#GoingLive to play #Homebody for the first time! the synopsis for this game seemed interesting. i bought this some time ago last year, and am excited to finally start it up! lets have a fun time together! www.twitch.tv/melody_wisp #MelodeezLive #VTuber #VTLive
neutral · AI labelView post →Good, spooky, interesting game. The puzzles weren't my thing but the dialogue certainly was. I really began empathizing with all of Emily's friends and hoping they would make it out okay, that I could save them. Glad I went through the experience of being chased by a horrible knife wielding murderer!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →✨HEY LISTEN✨ I’M LIVE OVER ON #TWITCH!!!!! As many of you know I am a HUGE Game Grumps fan so that makes me all the more excited to play Homebody 👻 Come hangout for a silly, goofy, and probably spooky good time 🥰 💚🖤💚 twitch.tv/thenerdnikki
neutral · AI labelView post →Homebody was one of my first forays into horror games, games that I thought I could handle because I didn't think it'd be too scary. It had a few jump scares that got me and the atmosphere was incredible, with tense existential moments against the backdrop of the metaphysical. Emily and her friends meet annually in a small town to watch a comet storm. However, Emily's fallen out of touch with the group and she arrives late. Pete is nowhere to be seen, Gary and Megan have grown close,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was pretty intriguing at first but I feel like some of the rather on-the-nose dialogue about the mysterious events in the game was ruining that for me. The nature of the gameplay loop also killed off the tension pretty quickly. As in, the hostile of the game ended up being more inconvenient than scary. Not too rarely, I let myself get killed intentionally to reset time. In short, I think the puzzles were fine and the hint tracker is a very good quality of life feature. However, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished Homebody! Wow, that's a really special game. If you're looking for thoughtful Indie Horror, here's one that isn't just a monster coming to eat your face. I thought this one had a lot to say about loneliness and anxiety, and it's made me want to understand OCD more...
positive · AI labelView post →FINISHING THE GAME GRUMPS GAME (lol) HOMEBODY!! oomfie shall guide me if I need assistance… (I have checked out of the story. come have fun!) #twitch —> twitch.tv/kreepykulture
positive · AI labelView post →I think its an interesting idea, and most of whats here isn't bad, some decent puzzles, decent dialogue and story, interesting themes, nice aesthetic, really good notes feature; but the timeloop is less of an integral mechanic to the gameplay and puzzles and more of an inconvenience, and for a game that's whole concept is predicated on this timeloop idea, it falls just a little short of the mark in my opinion. Also the survival horror mechanic(s) is just not good, its super basic and again,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →55) Homebody Homebody is a time loop horror puzzle game from Game Grumps, and I have to remind myself that Game Grumps is a media company with many employees and not just Egoraptor and Danny Sexbang, who did not personally create of this game. It's good! It's Clock Tower with a time loop mechanic.
positive · AI labelView post →✨HEY LISTEN✨ Gonna get back to streaming after a rough start to the week and we’re gonna be playing a little spooky game called Homebody I’m super excited about 😋 As always this schedule may change but it’s what I’m hoping for 💚
neutral · AI labelView post →I knew this game was about anxiety and depression when i started, as it says in the warning before you play this game, but even then i did not expect this to affect me so emotionally. It left me crying for a few minutes after i finished it for reasons i can't or don't really want to put into words in this review. The game play itself was very enjoyable. Felt like an old PS1 type horror game with a few different ways for controls. Like WASD movement or tank controls or mouse clicking or a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starting a brand new game today. Going live to play Homebody on the Switch. Let's see how long we can survive this one. Come hang out and help me get through it. twitch.tv/eyzmaster #Homebody #IndieHorror #NintendoSwitch #Gaming #Live
neutral · AI labelView post →i misread a steam hentai game called Homebody Hostess as Homeboy Hostage and i like my game better
neutral · AI labelView post →Interesting game, with more psychological depth than I was expecting. Horror aspect isn't too bad, mostly just involves being chased, but can get a little annoying. Puzzles are do-able without having to search for a walk-through, there are hints in-game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i fought ishioda not once, but twice, and won both times!!! oh, and a tiger. ill be back tomorrow to play Homebody this time, a game grumps game. i hope i have fun with it! bye bye!
neutral · AI labelView post →i think the next game ill play, alongside Yakuza: Like a Dragon, will be Homebody 🤔 hopefully ill like it! #VTuber
neutral · AI labelView post →AN ABSOLUTE GEM. Unique, clever, creative, fun, intriguing and titillating as all hell. It's ironic how some seasoned puzzle-game developers could only DREAM of making puzzles that makes this much sense. There's a part with a lamp that's a liiittle convoluted, but the use of a walkthrough/tips in-game through characters is so organically scripted, it's easy to trust that you'll find the solution in the game. Everything is fully possible to understand or figure out without any outside help and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished the game Homebody, that was a really fun take on the more escape room end of survival horror with a timeloop and themes about dealing with ocd, depression and anxiety thrown in! Really good.
positive · AI labelView post →Really tries to explain the age-old question, "Why the long face?" Unfortunately, it's done with far too much tell rather than show. This would include some overly childish and just borderline cringey dialogue despite having a story which revolves around mental disorders and serialized death/murder. Still, it's a generally enjoyable and fun puzzle horror game deep fried in nostalgia. It doesn't do anything new or significantly interesting which I haven't seen in other works. The "resolution" if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Figured out my selection of games for spoopy season -Homebody -Bite Night -Cooking Companions -Cryptmaster backup game -Anglerfish -The Convenience Store #Halloween #spoopygames #horror #twitchstreamer
neutral · AI labelView post →Among many other things like - Part of the gamer band Starbomb - Started a touring company to help his friends plan tours - Bought healthcare for Game Grumps Employees because they did not have any (before it was cool) - Published multiple games including Dream Daddy, Soviet Jump Game, & Homebody
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't usually write reviews, but this is a very, very good game. The atmosphere is perfect, the dialogue feels authentic and can get pretty deep, the puzzles are very clever, a little difficult but still doable. And the horror is exactly what it needs to be. It's just a great experience from start to end
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzle Pizzazz Humble Game Bundle bit.ly/4kDRweW Cumulative all-time low $97.71 $12 for 8 games (includes lower tier) - Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery - The Star Named EOS - The Entropy Centre - The Abandoned Planet $8 for 4 games - Paper Trail - A Guidebook of Babel - Homebody - Kingsgrave
neutral · AI labelView post →HAPPY HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN! Now for a game with the same name as that Spidey movie... 🕷️ Dawg is LIVE with HOMEBODY 🕹️ dawgnet.tv
neutral · AI labelView post →The acclaimed horror game Homebody from @gamegrumps.bsky.social is 50% off on #PS5 right now. #indiegames #horrorgaming #playstation linktr.ee/ps5sale
neutral · AI labelView post →A good time loop game, with light horror. Ultimately it is only really a looping game in a narrative sense. The environment progresses, and you will generate shortcuts for a couple rooms. The game is short, so the lack of loop-interactivity is forgiven. Sometimes you dont want to play a loop game where you need to keep track of ten npc schedules. There are spooky events that make experience interesting as you explore, changes in the details etc. The clues you find are recorded for you, so no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To put it simply: it's the best horror puzzle game I've played over the past decade, right before Crow Country. Homebody is reinventing the retro-horror game genre by far. The puzzle and level design are a great fit for the real-time system that serves both the exploration part and the survival one. You'll never have any weapon to fight back, but your best arm is your logic and the knowledge of the space you'll acquired over time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't dally you only have 3 days to grab a limited physical run of Homebody, the psychological horror game by GameGrumps! #gamenews #videogames #indiegames #indiedev #puzzle
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanted to like this game so badly. And a lot of the emotional moments are hard hitting. But by the end the puzzles are just a grind. Having to outrun the homunculus throughout the whole final puzzle, just for him to run away without more than 2 lines of dialogue to acknowledge it is insulting. The ending isn't an ending. Oh and the worst "tank" controls I've ever seen.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You find and input number codes everywhere and there's a fair chunk of dialogue. Not my idea of fun. They do well with atmosphere and spooky vibes, somewhat akin to Alone in the Dark, but the gameplay itself is slow and ponderous.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For #HorrorGameOct I spent a bit of time with the time loop horror game, Homebody. There are a lot of things I think it does very well, but can't get out of its own way with time loop game shenanigans. #NerdGirlThoughts #IndieGames […]
neutral · AI labelView post →HOMEBODY WAS SO GOOD I didn't mean to stream so goddamn late but god, I loved that so much. I'm so glad I got to play this game, I've been looking forward to it for -ages-. A great puzzle/Clock Tower game, great time.
positive · AI labelView post →Game Grumps did me dirty by advertising their game Homebody as survival horror. Survival horror means resource management, combat, and stealth. Homebody has none of that. It's a puzzle adventure game with a horror theme. I don't like puzzle adventures, even when they're objectively well made.
negative · AI labelView post →Vzed has been working on this off and on for years and I’m proud of him for getting it out. Homebody is a game more people should play
positive · AI labelView post →Reminiscing about Homebody. It was such a great, unique experience. I hope more puzzle horror games come out, following its lead.
positive · AI labelView post →Added to the Quvarchive: I've got a need for speed. Sorry, not racing. Short games Let's just stay home, relax with a chill, cosy game where nothing is spooky & nobody can hurt us Certainly 👀 youtu.be/onVinTcLQLU #VTuber | #ENVtuber | #Homebody
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Friday everyone We're a little late getting rolling, my apologies, but we've got another game to wrap up tonight. More Homebody www.twitch.tv/verilydusk
neutral · AI labelView post →Going into this game mostly blind was a great idea : the gameplay surprised me at every turn and kept it exciting from start to finish.
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