Outside the home

Some games use body horror to terrify you, while others try to mess with your psyche or your beliefs in order to draw out your inner most fears. Other games are just so littered with Easter eggs and funny dialogue that you actually forget you're supposed to be scared, and you actually end up wanting to be in the game. Such would be the premise of Outside the home, a game where your various dreams are always interrupted by a mysterious knock on the door.

When you first read about the game, you probably think this is some king of horror version of home alone, where you are trapped inside a house and you have to hide from whoever is knocking at your door.  If you do that, you couldn't be any further from the truth, as the real premise revolves around you going to sleep, dreaming and finding that each of your dreams are interrupted by a knock on the door. The end goal of the game is finding out who exactly is at the door.

Outside the home is divided into levels, each representing another dream of yours. Each level comes with its own name and visual theme, but the end goal stays the same: getting to the door to see who's knocking. Because the game is practically littered with Easter eggs, and funny dialogue,  it becomes hard at a certain point to see the game scary anymore, but curiosity will still drive you to see who's knocking on the door, and you'll never believe who it is.

While not the most visually polished game out there, it is nonetheless a fun experience, and although it loses all replay value after the first run, you'll enjoy and laugh every step of the way.