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YOUR HOUSE es una experiencia única que une algunos detalles entre el videojuego, la novela interactiva y los rompecabezas de escape room. Vas a experimentar una narrativa con intriga, misterio y extraña, donde Debbie debe de resolver secretos ocultos en una mansión, lo que es posible que te haga estar inmerso en la exploración y en el descubrimiento.

YOUR HOUSE es una experiencia literaria jugable que aporta todo lo bueno de la literatura y de los videojuegos, donde leer es jugar, y jugar es leer, y eso hace que siempre queramos seguir para descubrir los secretos de la casa junto a Debbie, mientras resolvemos acertijos y puzles con diferentes herramientas donde prima una interacción algo acotada, pero que siempre nos dará sorpresas y momentos de reflexión.

Your House is a game that I can happily say will be another one of those gems in this little corner of the gaming world. The style, the story, the puzzles – everything blends seamlessly together in a way that makes for a nice, satisfying game. And what makes this game even more wild to me? In the process of writing up my review, I found out that it’s based on a real-life Manhattan apartment. Bravo, Patrones & Escondites, bravo!

Your House é uma aventura textual interativa que consegue mesclar puzzles inteligentes a uma narrativa que prende do início ao fim. Mesmo com uma duração relativamente curta — aproximadamente dez horas (ou até menos, se você não travar em alguns puzzles como eu) —, temos aqui um prato cheio para quem gosta de uma excelente história de suspense em que nada parece ser o que é — nem mesmo a sua própria casa, isto é, se ela realmente for sua.

Los juegos de aventuras llevan ya tiempo siendo multidisciplinares, y YOUR HOME sabe hacerlo de maravilla. En una aventura de misterio en una "casa-puzle", tendremos novela, cómic, ilustraciones, point & click y aventura gráfica clásica, donde la base de todo son los continuos desafíos y rompecabezas a resolver, muy bien integrados con el avance de la historia y la ambientación de misterio y noir propuesta. El mundo del videojuego está lleno de sorpresas con títulos que no sabes de donde ni cuando han salido, y que te ganan por su calidad y gran trabajo, como pasará con YOUR HOME.

Despite a bit of clunky translation and its rather brief runtime, Your House feels like it could be the beginning of something great. Whereas many puzzle-heavy games are quick to give extra clues when it’s clear that the player is struggling, this title asks more. It makes you slow down, and each time something finally clicks, the dopamine rush is more than worth the effort. If the team at Patrones & Escondites end up creating more incredibly satisfying mystery games in this same style, it would be hard not to buy them on launch day.

Your House succeeds in delivering a rich and immersive narrative experience, supported by challenging puzzles and a striking visual style. Despite some minor frustrations with navigation and puzzle difficulty, the game’s engaging writing and constant sense of suspense made it hard to put down.

YOUR HOUSE is a brilliantly creative text-based narrative puzzle game that uses every tool at its disposal to remain as interactive as possible while still delivering a great narrative in the form of a digitized novel.

So, to sum up, if you're into puzzles, writing down all the details in a notebook to remember everything, and love these kinds of adventures, we would definitely recommend it. And even though it has its pros and cons, it's a game that delivers what it promises, in a short period of time, for people who don't want stories that last over 40 hours. Anyone who loves a good mental challenge will find themselves in the target audience for this title.

Your House offers up a combination of accessible and tricky puzzles couched in an interesting story and a tactile, enjoyable series of escape room chapters. 

Your House is a glorious mashup of video game and book, taking interesting elements from both storytelling methods to create an engaging game.

YOUR HOUSE riesce nell'intento di raccontare una storia complessa, supportata da uno stile artistico ricercato. L'esperienza complessiva è appagante e meritevole di essere vissuta, soprattutto per chi apprezza le narrazioni profonde.

The third of the game’s five chapters in particular is truly wonderful, presenting a warren of secret corridors and a series of interconnected puzzles that are particularly satisfying to solve with the help of night vision goggles that can reveal hidden writing. But sadly the game can’t quite keep up this pace to the end, and despite the odd flash of brilliance, the quality of the final puzzles never quite reaches the height of those in the middle of the game. The plot, too, fizzles out unsatisfyingly, with a solution to the house’s mystery that seems obvious and yet doesn’t make much sense when held up to scrutiny. Still, the idea of a house with conundrums built into its very fabric remains tantalising: I couldn’t help but give my own house a sweep after playing, just on the off-chance there might be a previously unnoticed hidden message or two.

Your House sets itself apart from other point-and-click adventures with its interactive text-based approach to puzzles and its beautiful artwork. Some of the brainteasers can be ragequit-inducing despite the Hint system, but if you're looking for a different kind of challenge when pointing and clicking, then your mileage may vary.

Your House is a short game, clocking in at about three hours to beat it all in one go, and with five clearly separated chapters if you want to play in small bursts, but because of that, you notice the time to take walking back and forth in tunnels, not being able to take the turns you want to take but having to guess or remember the entire layout and each room's name. This, combined with puzzles that seem to solve themselves and the strained narrative, drag down any enjoyment the individual problem solving might have granted. Your House is a good facsimile of an escape room, but the flaws only become more apparent in the digital realm.

YOUR HOUSE es una sorprendente obra narrativa llena de misterios y con mensajes potentes y llenos de sentido, de esas que se disfrutan sin prisas, con una taza de café en la mano. Ideal para los amantes de la lectura y de la resolución de rompecabezas y enigmas tipo escape room. Sentirte atrapado entre cuatro paredes y usar el intelecto como arma para escapar es un recurso muy satisfactorio para el jugador. Pero si además lo hace en un entorno lleno de arte y con una estética tipo comic noir tan atractiva la experiencia se disfruta mucho más.

He disfrutado mucho mi recorrido por esta misteriosa casa, tomando notas y pensando en lo que tenía que hacer después de anotar códigos, dibujos o posibles claves en mi cuaderno. Es un título que podemos jugar del tirón, en un día, o bien dosificarlo para poder saborearlo mejor. Sea como fuere, este libro interactivo hará las delicias de toda aquella persona que disfrute con los desafíos y tomando notas. 

What else can I say? I’m in love with YOUR HOUSE. I think it’s a stunning amalgamation of everything I love about good video games and good stories. It feels so good to play, so good to beat the puzzles, and is such an interesting story, I will be singing its praises to anyone who will listen for quite a while.