Home for Wayward Travellers invites you to become the caretaker of a unique sanctuary for individuals lost across time. As the house warden, your duties blend management with mystery: ensuring the residents' happiness, forging deep bonds, and preventing accidental rips in the space-time continuum. But as temporal anomalies intensify, a darker conspiracy emerges, challenging your skills in this narrative-driven simulation where every choice echoes through ages.
Gameplay & Mechanics
1. Sanctuary Management Simulation: Oversee the daily operations of the home, from allocating resources and upgrading facilities to scheduling activities that maintain residents' morale. A dynamic needs system requires balancing comfort with security, as neglected travellers may trigger unpredictable temporal events.
2. Temporal Anomaly Resolution: Investigate and contain reality-warping incidents caused by residents' unintended interactions with time. Mini-games involve puzzle-solving to stabilize rifts, while a "Temporal Integrity Meter" tracks global stability—failure risks cascading paradoxes.
3. Relationship-Building Mechanics: Engage in dialogue trees and personalized quests to understand each traveller's backstory. Your choices influence their emotional state and loyalty, unlocking cooperative abilities for anomaly crises or romantic subplots that alter narrative outcomes.
Story & Character Dynamics
1. Deep Character Arcs: Encounter travellers from diverse eras—a Victorian inventor, a futuristic soldier, or a prehistoric shaman—each with unique quests and hidden trauma. Their personal growth, shaped by your actions, can lead to redemption, departure, or tragic consequences.
2. Evolving Central Mystery: Uncover the truth behind the accelerating anomalies through fragmented logs, resident testimonies, and hidden clues. The plot twists reveal a sinister force manipulating time, forcing alliances with unlikely allies or former adversaries.
3. Branching Narrative Paths: Key decisions determine the home's fate: preserve the timeline, rewrite history, or embrace chaos. With 10+ endings, replayability is enhanced by secret routes tied to moral alignments and relationship thresholds.
World & Atmosphere
1. Procedural Time Rifts: Explore dynamically generated anomaly zones that blend aesthetics from different eras—medieval castles overlapping with neon-lit cities. Each rift offers exclusive resources and dangers, rewarding strategic exploration.
2. Authentic Era-Blending Design: The sanctuary itself evolves visually as elements from residents' times seep into its architecture. Soundscapes shift between melancholic historical melodies and eerie futuristic tones, reflecting the temporal dissonance.
3. Hidden Lore & Collectibles: Scour environments for temporal artifacts and diaries that unveil the home's origin. Optional puzzles unlock backstory chapters, connecting to a larger cosmic conflict beyond the main plot.
Unique Features & Replayability
1. Time-Bending Customization: Use collected temporal energy to redesign the home's layout or even reverse specific story decisions mid-game, allowing experimental playthroughs without full restarts.
2. Community-Driven Events: Seasonal updates introduce limited-time anomalies and travellers based on player feedback, with mod support enabling custom stories and characters to extend longevity.
3. Accessibility Innovations: Features like a "Temporal Guide" mode highlight critical clues for puzzle-averse players, while customizable time-pressure settings cater to both casual and hardcore audiences.
