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Noob - The Factionless
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No Place Like Home
Developer Chicken Launcher
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home! From the Steam store page
296 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
120 positive · 72 negative
95% range 55–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 72 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 0 | 68 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 27 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
2,467 of 3,144 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 117 yes, 72 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (3,221 of 4,122 positive).
Players find the cleaning and farming loop satisfying but repetitive. [1][2][3] Many reviewers report the game feels unfinished and buggy. [4][5][6] The story and ending are widely criticized as anticlimactic. [7][8][9]
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- [5]
I cannot say I didn't enjoy the majority of the 43 hours I spent with this game, but I simply can't recommend a title that is so obviously unfinished and abandoned. It can often be an *entertaining* game, but as-is it is not a *good* game. The core game mechanics *are* fun, putting hats and balloons on animals *is* delightful, some of the dialogue and flavor text *is* amusing, and there *are* a few hilarious easter …
- [20]
Well, I picked it up for the genre. I love Apocalypse Renewal Farming stuff. But it's... bad. The story makes no sense, the controls don't work at all for controller (you can't aim the suction) and they are bad for the mouse and keyboard as well (fighting is on the same buttons as others causing mis-inputs). And on top of all that, it's just extremely grindy. It's a bit of a slow start, and I played longer than wish …
- [1]
This charming game popped up and I was originally interested in the amount of trash to clean up. I waited for a sale and snagged it. While I don't often play cleaning simulators, this one was one I thought I could take a crack at. I found it quite charming and simple, there were some complexity to it and could see where the developers were wanting to take it but may have not had the time or budget. I was able to …
- [3]
7/10 No Place Like Home is a dated-looking post apocalyptic exploration farming sim where you clean up and recycle a trashed Earth. Endearing story, fun gameplay, but becomes repetitive. My takeaway: No Place Like Home is extremely unique in its storytelling and game design. Although there’s plenty of farming sims out there, I’ve never played one like this. After humans had left Earth for other planets due to their …
- [4]
I've been enjoying it, but consider this thumbs up a "barely passed", because this game is very buggy and full of typos. Not recommended at full price, because frankly this is early access quality at best. Some bugs for those curious: -Sometimes decoration items you get from chests don't appear in your inventory -The terrain moves in flickers in many areas (becomes higher/lower) -You can enter a hidden door early …
Summarised from 34 of the 268 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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No Place Like Home sits at 63% positive across 192 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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neutral · AI labelView post →This post is for @shayla.peachfulvibes.com and Shayla ONLY! 🍑 I call it No Place Like Home … pretend like your tapping your heels together and let everything jiggle
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neutral · AI labelView post →AIN'T NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought this game and played for a while, I liked it but stopped playing for a while. I decided to come back to it recently and I just couldn't remember why I stopped playing. Put in like an 8 hr session to start my second save. Went back the next day to resume play, loaded in, and quickly realized the game had loaded my last manual save, not the auto save. The manual save was like 3 hrs earlier than the auto save. NBD, I quit to the main menu to load in a specific save instead of just hitting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR FULL PRICE! I like the premise a lot: find your grandpa, clean the Earth in the process, and maintain a farm on the side. I love farming games and I thought that this was something cool to play. And it definitely was for the first 10 hours, but then it just got repetitive. There aren't many places to explore and once you reach the endgame, there really isn't a good reason to keep playing other than the achievements. The enemies don't respawn, there aren't any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now available in full color hardcover for the acclaimed Rivers of London Roleplaying Game! NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Case File Collection - $49.99 (price inc PDF) DEAD LETTER: A Rivers of London Solo Adventure - $24.99 (price inc PDF) bit.ly/4juluV1
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot say I didn't enjoy the majority of the 43 hours I spent with this game, but I simply can't recommend a title that is so obviously unfinished and abandoned. It can often be an *entertaining* game, but as-is it is not a *good* game. The core game mechanics *are* fun, putting hats and balloons on animals *is* delightful, some of the dialogue and flavor text *is* amusing, and there *are* a few hilarious easter eggs, but there are just *so many* recurring problems the devs never…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game in early access on the potential it had to be something amazing. It's 3 years after the last sign of life from the developer and a switch release, but the game is still in a rough early access state. It has working controller support now, but is hardly in a finished state. Skip the tutorial - it will only confuse you. The text boxes use undersized fonts, often dialog will get bugged out with other menus, and many quest/dialog triggers seem to be broken. I wish some other…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No Place Like Home It's been a long journey back, but Kaja Juvan's comeback takes her to the winner's circle once again. And it happens at home in Slovenia. The 24yo, who took a break from the game to focus on mental health, defeats Simona Waltert, 6-4, 6-4, to win in Ljubljana.
neutral · AI labelView post →No Place Like Home by @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social We LOVE Mappa Mundi by @threesailsstudios.bsky.social and the game of exploration is showcased wonderfully in this one-shot GMed by @drtalksalot.bsky.social with players @sciwithrach.bsky.social l @samsighs.bsky.social and @emzywb.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a very fun and cute game on the surface, but dig a little and your opinion starts to change. First, the game mechanics need a lot of help. I am not going to say they are bugging as much as simply annoying. For example, you get chickens really early on and daily you have to pet them, feed them, or clean them. To target the chicken, you have to highlight it with camera movements and then you can interact with it once it is highlighted. It is very annoying because the chicken action box…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#Supernatural - 10.11 There's No Place Like Home #JaredPadalecki
neutral · AI labelView post →This game feels super rushed and unfinished, large parts of the end game are unused / worthless or weirdly redundant (greenhouses suck, sheep/wool has no use, there are two different 'fast travel' methods, etc) and the final boss fight is a joke where they give you a super weapon and you can just stand still and fire it to win. The ending is super underwhelming and the whole thing just made me sad that I wasted time playing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got about 10 hours in, i was enjoying it for the most part. A little buggy and super grindy but relaxing if you don't mind that kind of thing. I finally found corn seeds after searching everywhere. You need them for one of the upgrades. Only found 4. I grew them and put them in the bird feeder to give me more seeds. They disappeared completely. I put my last corn in there, the same thing happened. I picked up the bird feeder thinking, maybe the glitch is where it's at (literally where it is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Desperately needs more time in development. The groundwork here is promising, but it's nowhere near done. $20 for this is asking way too much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This charming game popped up and I was originally interested in the amount of trash to clean up. I waited for a sale and snagged it. While I don't often play cleaning simulators, this one was one I thought I could take a crack at. I found it quite charming and simple, there were some complexity to it and could see where the developers were wanting to take it but may have not had the time or budget. I was able to complete it and watch the game and story progress to the end. It has the charm of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 Garbage collection game, very satisfying to clean up. I may have discovered I like this kind of game play with Coral Island. Rebuilding is nice too I guess. No pesky stamina limitation either so run around day and night doing things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6.5/10 Really fun concept and satisfying gameplay overall, but there’s definitely room for improvement. The loop is pretty simple—you drill, vacuum up gunk, rescue animals, unlock new areas, and repeat. The whole cleanup vibe is super relaxing at first, but once you’ve unlocked everything, it starts to feel a bit repetitive. A good chunk of each in-game day ends up being spent petting animals and gathering their items which can get a little tedious (it appears this can be automated but I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has it's charm, but the ending is meh and the game ultimately feels unfinished (there's a farm animal whose produce does literally nothing as an example). Had I dropped the game before actually beating it, I would've recommended it...but having experienced how unpolished/unfinished the game feels afterwards, you're better off playing another game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, I picked it up for the genre. I love Apocalypse Renewal Farming stuff. But it's... bad. The story makes no sense, the controls don't work at all for controller (you can't aim the suction) and they are bad for the mouse and keyboard as well (fighting is on the same buttons as others causing mis-inputs). And on top of all that, it's just extremely grindy. It's a bit of a slow start, and I played longer than wish I did just hoping it would get better. It's normal for farming sims to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is fun, there is a certain kind of dopamine one can get from making a wasteland infested with rubbish into fertile and functioning land it does however have some flaws, for one thing, the ending of the game is anticlimactic as hell, you beat the final boss, get a mountain of text to read and then the game either pick one option to get the credits or the other option to keep playing the game, some of the achievements are really dumb, such as the cooking one where you can make 10 dishes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needed a no thoughts head empty game last night and remembered No Place Like Home, where you basically clear giant piles of trash from earth (everyone has left to live on mars) and you can farm and have chickens, pigs, robits and it’s cute & satisfying to clear each area and requires 0 brain cells
positive · AI labelView post →7/10 No Place Like Home is a dated-looking post apocalyptic exploration farming sim where you clean up and recycle a trashed Earth. Endearing story, fun gameplay, but becomes repetitive. My takeaway: No Place Like Home is extremely unique in its storytelling and game design. Although there’s plenty of farming sims out there, I’ve never played one like this. After humans had left Earth for other planets due to their mistreatment of it, they had left it completely trashed. It’s up to you and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This would be a 3.5/5 for me. The game is fun, the story is complete and there are lots of fun little details and easter eggs - but it still feels like early access in many ways. There are lots of typos, dialogue doesn't always flow well, you can sequence break pretty easily which doesn't match the conversations. Also some hit boxes are off - especially if using a controller. It got a bit frustrating trying to harvest certain crops/animals in particular because you couldn't highlight it just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm playing this game called No Place Like Home and it's like a combination of Harvest Moon and Power Wash Simulator, i.e. built specifically for my gaming preferences.
positive · AI labelView post →It had good potential, the laidback cutsey nature of it was really appealing, but alas it appears to be left in limbo with bugs etc. The developer also appears to have reused the assets in a newer game of a similar nature. Pretty janky to play - mouse control is pretty bad and some areas are clearly in need of polishing. The final area and boss is pretty rushed, took only 5-10 minutes to complete verse the couple hours in each other zone and it felt pretty lack luster in the end. Okay for a one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played back in 2022 and came back to 100% the game in 2026. Like the soundtrack and relaxing feel of cleaning. No time based achievements which is a plus. Recently dealt with the game crashing and restarting computer 3 times in 2 days. Unsure if it was due to playing autosave while manually saving. Started sleeping instead and hasn't crashed since. Was missing oil press from the game even when having the recipe. An old thread suggested verifying files in steam and some time later it came back…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is more of a love or nah situation. In fact, the gameplay is very slow due to the limited guideline it has. Let me start with the poor execution of tutorial, the tutorial itself is walk-way. It's not a tutorial, more like a slob slap together with assets, The game itself is okay, but lots of feature in the game is unoptimatize to the point of annoying, There's no quest optimazation, you don't know where to go or to get all the materials, you just mindlessly wander the maps trying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this right after it came out and loved it. It looks like it may have been abandoned by the devs at this point, but the game is finished and beatable. Some lag and bugs, but you can get caught in the cleaning for hours and be content with it. There is a lot to do that will keep you occupied for awhile. The placement of furniture and the scaling is a bit odd and be careful not to recycle things you may need later on (even if it tells you that you can!). Overall good game and would play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No Place Like Home has a good heart but I eventually gave up on it because I prefer a clearer sense of progression in these types of games, both in unlocks and objectives. The game doesn’t let you do everything from your base; there are vendors out in the zones that you need to trade with to get the thing that will let you make/grow the other thing that will get you past the next thing. I couldn’t keep track of it all. As for story, you start off trying to find out what happened to your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →50/50 I had to use console commands to get the a final achievement because the some item wouldn't trigger from an NPC. Most of the engame is just grinding for the achievements. I did finish the game in under 24 hours, and I did enjoy most of it. But after some time the gameplay feels "meh". The puzzels are to easy for me, so I think this game is mostly for children in that sense? I am not really sure though. After getting a lot in your own farm the lag is getting real, and my PC can handle…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No Place Like Home is a game I really wanted to like, but I just can't recommend it. I tried *so* hard to get through it. I even left it running for days, telling myself I'd come back and finish it, but every time I thought about playing, I just didn't want to. Graphics are a big part of my enjoyment, and the visuals here really didn't do it for me. I like the overall concept of the game, but I don't think it was executed very well. There are plenty of better cozy farming games out there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3.5/5 tutorial almost made me quit. concept is good but there is a lot better farming sims out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NO PLACE LIKE HOME: THE MALE PATTERN'S WILL SCHWARTZ - QUEENS, NYC Will Schwartz from The Male Pattern tells what makes Queens so special for music and talks about some of his favourite local acts and what bands we should be looking out for right now.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was very much enjoying playing the game. Yes, some jank, but not game breaking (adjusting mouse sensitivity up made it much more bearable) but after playing for hours in my first play session, I loaded back in ready to pick up where I left off and found 5 hours of previous play time vanished. I exited the first session immediately after the daily autosave happened, and the exit prompt confirmed that it had been 0 minutes since the last save. Apparently not. Looking in the Discussions area,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been enjoying it, but consider this thumbs up a "barely passed", because this game is very buggy and full of typos. Not recommended at full price, because frankly this is early access quality at best. Some bugs for those curious: -Sometimes decoration items you get from chests don't appear in your inventory -The terrain moves in flickers in many areas (becomes higher/lower) -You can enter a hidden door early because you can interact through the wood covering it, but then you are stuck…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developers abandoned the game. so its buggy and lags.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy cow these controls are clunky and awkward. I bought this as part of a bundle deal, and I see now why it was so cheap. Trying to face any direction but the default is incredibly restrictive, very little dynamic to the focal point. I tried messing with the sensitivity settings, but it didn't change that portion, just made it jerkier when it did respond. Definitely won't play again. And I see they haven't updated it in 2 years so will be filing for a refund as I barely played and it's not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →much like the others, I had a really hard time with the controls. I tried both controller and mouse & keyboard. I'm usually quick to adapt to new games and this one gave me motion sickness. I want to like it but I can't play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baffled by the positive reviews. The controls are terrible and not at all intuitive. 3rd person view is not a good option, especially given how finicky the detection of objects is. It's not a good game at all. If you are looking for an enjoyable farming game, this isn't it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**TLDR; Fun but quickly repetitive, not worth full price** The game is really fun in the beginning. I started with the option to make everything for free because I wanted to play at my own pace and stay stress-free. But after playing for a while it became very repetitive. The world feels empty and honestly there’s so much potential here but it’s clear the game has been abandoned. The farming mechanics are clunky and frustrating. Crop placement is awkward, especially when playing with a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is so unfun to play, the controls are stiff and just... awful. it takes forever to turn around and i couldn't even get past the tutorial, honestly.. yikes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Already played this when it was still in early access and came back to it some time after the full release. The game improved a lot and is very fun to play now. I just love the theme of cleaning up different regions and experiencing how it affects and changes the environment. The game felt very relaxing and cozy with no time pressure and pretty easy and little combat. Might start a second playthrough in the future ^^
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is not a thing that I dislike about this game, I LOVE it. It is so relaxing hovering up all of the trash and cleaning the earth. The quests are fun. The animals are amazing and FUNNY. I love the dancing cows. This game has a bit of everything:- funny, quirky, witty, serious, you name it this game has it. This game has farming, growing crops:- wheat, oats, corn, veggies:- spuds, carrots, lettuce (to name a few) , fruit trees:- apple, peach, orange, cherry, olives. It has vast areas…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just got a new game on switch, well a bundle of two games by same dev - No Place Like Home, and Fresh Start. And like with so many games I'm mystified by some of the choices devs make. Such as fiddly controls, and hard to understand tutorials. I love games, just want simple controls, easy tutorials.
neutral · AI labelView post →#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky DEVO Their best was in the early years TBH, & most my picks will be from albums 1, 3 & 4. Not today though as this track is from their 2010 album Something for Everybody. 14. No Place Like Home youtu.be/UGTEWIK0orA
neutral · AI labelView post →I UNDERSTAND NOW. IT'S IMPORTANT TO APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE. I NEVER SHOULD HAVE ABANDONED PITT TO DO THIS ELABORATE D3 FANDOM BIT. THERE TRULY IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
neutral · AI labelView post →Texas artist friends, registration is now open for my painting demonstration October 25th at the Kerr Arts & Cultural Center: www.outdoorpainterssociety.com/event-6834894 “No Place Like Home” • Oil on Linen • 30” x 30" • Private Collection
neutral · AI labelView post →Attention, members of the Demi-monde: No Place Like Home and Dead Letter now available in glorious physical form. (And don’t forget, if you buy them direct from Chaosium, you get the PDF free!) No Place Like Home is a collection of three case files, while Dead Letter is a standalone solo adventure
neutral · AI labelView post →Short version: The game was early access for a long time and it seems like once they made an end to the storyline they just kicked it out the door and didn't bother to polish anything else. There's massive game breaking bugs everywhere, there's dozens of items that are just "dead-ends" (cannot be used in crafting/cooking and can't be converted into either of the game's 2 currencies.), and the story/questlines are absolutely impossible to understand, both in content and instruction, due to an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so janky. Controls, placing objects and moving things are difficult. Memory leaks and crashes are constant. You're left to your own devices to figure out vague quests or where to go. Map layouts and designs are terrible, confusing and tedious. Stack sizes for items are atrocious and unbalanced, especially considering how incredibly limited inventory and storage is. 85% of the game is just cleaning trash, 10% is running back and forth and only about 5% of actual game otherwise. Now…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →memory leak slowed my entire computer forced the game to close and lost my save file
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best description of this game is jank. Moving, jank. Placing objects in the world, jank. Fighting, jank. Character design, jank. I dunno... Load screens all over the place. The art looks out of place. Sound track is super basic loops. Might be fun for small children. Be prepared to spend hours picking up trash and nothing else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is much I like about this game, however what inevitably stops me playing are the controls, they are awful
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Supported on release. Games like this is why I've stopped doing that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has potential and I can see the developer put their heart in it but the game lacks in quality of life from the sensitivity of the mouse defaulting to something extremely slow, to items not having descriptions with you guessing what they can do or be used for to sounds not looping well. If you want to see what a first project from a team can look like, talk with your money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My current favorite. If you like vacuuming trash (like "Fresh Start", by the same devs) this the perfect game for you. I played 12 hours straight today and there is so much more to do!
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