HOME

The house stands silent, but you are not alone. As a paranormal investigator, you've come to uncover the truth. Identify the ghost, withstand the terror, and cleanse the house of its haunting. Keep your wits sharp, your flashlight steady, and pray you make it out alive.

♦ Synopsis ♦

In HOME, you assume the role of a paranormal investigator, tasked with cleansing a haunted house of its ghostly inhabitant.

Armed with your ghost hunting equipment and a flashlight, you make your way through the dark house, room by room, discovering items, clues, and evidence in order to identify, locate, and expel the ghost. You must be cautious as your flashlight batteries drain quickly, paranormal events test your sanity, and deadly hunts force you to run and hide as the ghost chases you throughout the house.

Once you have gathered enough evidence, found the unique momentos tied to the ghost's former living self, and discovered the room that the ghost is haunting, you must perform a cleansing ritual to rid the house of the apparition once and for all!

1 Player

Ages 12+

30-60 Minutes

Designed & Created by: Dustin Cox, aka Game Knight

♦ Game Flow Summary ♦

Each turn, reduce your flashlight tracker by 1, flip over an unexplored room, draw a resolution card, and resolve all required actions; acquire items, trigger a random event, start a random ghost hunt, reduce the hunt timer, etc.

Certain rooms will allow you to use your ghost hunting equipment to search for evidence. Follow the unique instructions for each piece of equipment and roll the d6, adding the value of the die shown on the current resolution card, and check the back of the equipment card for the outcome. If you're successful, you'll place the equipment in the success pile and gain evidence points as shown on the equipment card's outcome!

Once you've successfully gathered evidence with 3 pieces of equipment, the ghost's identity is revealed! Consult the "ghost" card to find out which type of ghost is haunting the house, which 3 unique momentos are tied to the ghost, and which room the ghost is primarily haunting.

Now it's time to search the house and gather the 3 unique momentos that are tied to the ghost. Once acquired, bring the momentos to the special room that the ghost is haunting and perform the cleansing ritual. Using the d8, you must roll less than your current evidence point total in order to succeed and rid the house of its haunting. If you manage to do so, you win the game!

Keep in mind, the entire time you're investigating the house, the hunt timer is ticking down each turn. Once the hunt timer reaches 0, the ghost will spawn and start hunting YOU! Your main priority becomes running and hiding from the ghost as it roams the halls and rooms of the house. The resolution cards will dictate which direction and number of rooms the ghost will move each turn. Locate rooms with red furniture icons in order to hide from the ghost. If the ghost ever enters a room you're hiding in, you'll need to make a skill check in order to remain hidden. If you pass the check, you survive...for now. If you fail the check, the ghost finds you and it's GAME OVER!

As your flashlight batteries drain and your sanity plummets, will you have what it takes to get the job done and make it out alive?

♦ Game Components ♦

• Mini Cards (32): 20 Room cards, 12 Resolution cards

• Mint Tin Cards (18):

  ◦ 5 Equipment cards 
  ◦ 6 Event Cards 
  ◦ 4 Stat Tracker cards 
  ◦ 1 Ghost card 
  ◦ 1 Memento Tracker card
  ◦ 1 Van/Evidence Tracker card 

• Micro Cards (16):

  ◦ 16 Item cards  

• Meeples: 1 red meeple (Player), 1 white meeple (Ghost)

• Dice: 4 six-sided (D6) and 1 eight-sided (D8)

• Tracking Cubes: 8 red cubes and 1 white ghost cube

• Extra Components: Notebook token and Video Camera token

♦ Setup ♦

HOME is easy to set up and play!

1. Trackers: ◦ Set Hunt Timer to 8 ◦ Set Sanity Tracker to 8 ◦ Set Focus Tracker to 8 ◦ Set Flashlight Tracker to 8 ◦ Set Evidence Tracker to 0

2. Room Layout: ◦ Place the Van card near you. ◦ Place the Front Door card above the Van card. ◦ Shuffle the remaining 19 Room cards and arrange them face down in a 5x4 grid (5 columns, 4 rows) with the Front Door card in the center of the bottom row closest to the player.

3. Decks: Shuffle the Resolution deck and Item deck. Set the Event deck nearby.

4. Equipment: Choose 2 out of 5 Equipment cards to equip.

5. Place the red player meeple on the Van card to represent the player.

6. Place the white ghost tracking cube on the Front Door room card.

♦ Fun Factor ♦

HOME is a multi-layered experience that combines exploration, card placement, memory, push your luck, dice rolling, and LOTS of tension!

Every time you play, the house layout will be different, offering new ways to explore and new ways to approach the investigation. You'll need to weigh the risk vs reward of which equipment to use, which momentos to search for, when to use particular items, when to push your luck into new resolution cards, and more!

The ghost hunts are a thrilling, nail biting, experience as you run and hide from the ghost! Will you try your luck and run through the house in order to create distance between yourself and the ghost, or will you duck off in a nearby room to hide, risking the ghost finding you? The choice is yours!

♦ Game Designer ♦

HOME was designed and created by Dustin Cox, aka Game Knight. You can watch Dustin's playthrough videos of HOME, as well as plenty of other solo player table top games, on his YouTube channel, Game Knight.

Game Knight

Check out this playthrough video of HOME to see it in action!

Why buy this?

• Experience the thrill of hunting ghosts...and being hunted!
• Multi-purpose resolution cards provide depth & replay value!
• Dynamic house layouts ensure a unique experience every game!

Requirements

Downloads

Components

Component	Quantity	Photo
Micro Deck	1 deck of 16 cards
Mini Deck	1 deck of 32 cards
Mint Tin Deck	1 deck of 18 cards
Mint Tin	1
Mint Tin Folio Set	1 set of 1 mint tin folios
Cube, 8mm, Red	8
D6, 12mm, Red	1
D6, 8mm, Red	3
D6, 8mm, White	1
D8, Red	1
Ghost, White	1
Ice Cube, 8mm, Opaque, Black	1
Ice Cube, 8mm, Opaque, White	1
Meeple, Mini, Wood, Red	1
Premium Orange Tome	1

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