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Leaving Home

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98%Game Brain Score
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monetization
98% User Score Based on 154 reviews

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Leaving Home is a single player puzzle game with a mystery theme. It was developed by Bart Bonte and was released on June 16, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

An adventure filled with quirky challenges, surreal surprises and moody tunes...

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98%
Audience ScoreBased on 154 reviews
music8 positive mentions
monetization6 negative mentions
  • Unique and creative puzzle design with a variety of interesting and challenging puzzles that encourage thinking outside the box.
  • Beautiful, charming art style and relaxing, fitting music enhance the overall atmosphere and gaming experience.
  • Thoughtful storytelling with a meaningful and heartwarming message, especially highlighting mental health and OCD in a sympathetic manner.
  • Some puzzles can be frustrating or unclear without explanations, leading to confusion even after viewing hints.
  • The game's length is fairly short, leaving players wanting more content or additional levels.
  • The hint system can be limited; some players found hints insufficient or repetitive and noted occasional annoyances with the movement controls.
  • music
    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is widely praised for its calming, groovy, and thoughtfully crafted soundtrack that perfectly complements the puzzles and visuals. Players find it non-repetitive, mood-enhancing, and integral to the overall immersive and relaxing escape room experience.

    • “Just brilliant, thoughtful, challenging with a superb chilled soundtrack.”
    • “An incredible game with fun, creative puzzles, excellent calming music and beautiful stylized art that come together to form a great experience with some nice commentary on mental health.”
    • “Of course I'm stuck somewhere trying to understand what trickery twist I'm supposed to find and, as always, the music helps staying in the mood and keep trying (my favorite so far is the one in the stairs).”
    • “The music??”
    • “(I played without sound on so I didn't get to hear background music, sorry!)”
    • “This definitely had the Bart Bonte aesthetic, music, and puzzle theme, but yet so different.”
  • graphics
    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are consistently praised for their charming, cute, and delightful art style that complements the game's creative and refreshing puzzle design. Visuals are described as beautiful and whimsical, enhancing the enjoyable and challenging gameplay experience. Overall, the artwork is a standout feature that adds to the game's unique appeal.

    • “Delightful little escape room style game with gorgeous graphics and classic Bart Bonte whimsy!”
    • “Very clever, very challenging, very cool graphics.”
    • “Puzzles were challenging, graphics beautiful.”
  • monetization
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Monetization is primarily through optional ads for hints, which are generally not intrusive and can be removed with a $2.99 purchase. Players appreciate the lack of forced ads, though some find it frustrating to watch multiple ads for the same hint. Overall, the system is considered fair and unobtrusive.

    • “They are the kinds of puzzles where there's no explanation of what's going on, so I look at a hint (3 ads!) then see the solution but I still have no idea why that's the solution.”
    • “Only complaint: needing to watch more ads to view a hint I've already viewed.”
    • “You can watch ads for a hint if you need, and the ads are not too annoying.”
  • story
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is praised for being beautiful, creative, and refreshingly integrated with the puzzles, offering a unique and emotionally engaging narrative about themes like leaving home. Users appreciate the inventive storytelling approach and look forward to future projects from the developer.

    • “I loved how these puzzles connected and formed a little story, and the final quotes were amazing.”
    • “It was a very creative and refreshing point and click gameplay idea, definitely enjoyed that new playing concept and the beautiful art style and the beautiful little story.”
    • “Astonishingly great puzzle game, very unique by blending in story about leaving home, keep up the great work Bart Bonte, can't wait for the next project.”
  • gameplay
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is praised for being fun, elegant, and simple, offering a creative and refreshing point-and-click experience complemented by beautiful art and an engaging story.

    • “It was a very creative and refreshing point and click gameplay idea, definitely enjoyed that new playing concept and the beautiful art style and the beautiful little story.”
    • “Elegant simple gameplay, as usual.”
    • “I have to say that this game is fun to play—perhaps it's the gameplay but just everything is bragging worthy.”
  • atmosphere
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere is consistently praised for its engaging and well-paced design, complemented by rewarding puzzles and distinctive, quirky art that makes the gaming experience enjoyable and immersive.

    • “Great atmosphere, great pacing, puzzles are so rewarding to solve.”
    • “The atmosphere, art, and the cool quirky quality of it makes it enjoyable just being in the game.”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the game emotionally engaging, highlighting its classic puzzle design and a particularly wholesome ending that leaves a positive, heartfelt impression.

    • “Very fun, my favorite part was drinking ungodly amounts of orange juice. All jokes aside, very classic Bart Bonte puzzles, and the ending was very wholesome.”
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Leaving Home is a puzzle game with mystery theme.

Leaving Home is available on PC, Phone, iPad, iPhone and others.

Leaving Home was released on June 16, 2025.

Leaving Home was developed by Bart Bonte.

Leaving Home has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Leaving Home for its music but disliked it for its monetization.

Leaving Home is a single player game.

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