Your House is a visual novel that is the closest game Ia€™ve played to reading an actual book.
In Your House, you play as Debbie, a girl who receives a mysterious postcard on her birthday with an address and a key. The address leads to a mansion thata€™s filled with secrets and puzzles for you to solve, and the gamea€™s presentation does a lot to sell the feeling of curling up on the couch with a good mystery novel.
Much of how you interact with the game is by reading through pages of text to know what room youa€™re in, whata€™s going on, what you can interact with, and where you can go next. As you scroll down the a€oepagea€ youa€™re reading, certain words, rooms, or locations will show up in bold. Click on those, and something will happen, whether it's more text appearing on the page or a little animation that shows Debbie moving from one room to another. When you reach a dead end, youa€™ll usually be offered a link back to a hub area like a living room.
Many pages also have gorgeous pictures in a a€‹a€‹noir comic style that you can click on to investigate in more detail or interact with to solve puzzles. One had me note the number of consonants and vowels in a name under a p …
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