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Home Behind

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2016

Should you play it?

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

What works

  • Engaging survival and crafting mechanics
  • Strong narrative with emotional depth
  • Multiple professions and progression system
  • High replay value with procedural elements
  • Affordable price with good content

Things to keep in mind

  • Combat can be repetitive and rng-dependent
  • Some untranslated text and localization issues
  • Linear movement with no backtracking
  • Randomness can cause frustrating difficulty spikes
  • Limited character customization and social interaction

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Card Survival: Tropical Island

  • CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience

  • Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存

  • Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

  • Home Behind 2

  • Do Not Feed the Monkeys

More fantastical

Games that feels like Home Behind but with more imaginative fiction

  • Thea: The Awakening

  • xiuzhen idle

  • Fabled Lands

  • Backpack Jianghu

  • Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

  • Girls of The Tower

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Home Behind but with more leadership over others

  • Sheltered

  • Three Kingdoms Mushouden

  • Plebby Quest: The Crusades

  • Dead Age

  • Dust to the End

  • Dead Grid

Less social

Games that feels like Home Behind but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Lucky Hunter

  • Drop Duchy

  • Floppy Knights

  • SKYHILL

  • Sword of the Stars: The Pit

  • Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Home Behind: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Expression.

Last update: 04/08/2026