Confabulation: Homestead

Confabulation: Homestead is a horror game about investigating your family’s disappearance while keeping a lurking threat at bay. Strange noises, movements and lights have appeared around your property. After you set traps and capture something you cannot explain, your family goes missing and the police suspect you are responsible. You have about an hour before they arrive to work out what happened; if they get there first, you are arrested and the game ends.

Watch the property

Pay attention to your home and its surroundings as objects begin to change. Take photos of altered objects to restore them. If too many alterations occur, the creatures lurking in the shadows grow more aggressive and move closer; if they reach you, the game ends.

Puzzles and replay

Solve puzzles around the home to unlock areas and story elements. Completing all the puzzles leads to the game’s conclusion, and there are multiple endings. Puzzle solutions and the order in which puzzles appear change with each playthrough, as do the object alterations and horror elements. There is no saving, but some puzzles unlock permanently after you complete them twice; losing means restarting.

Game modes

The game has three modes or difficulties: Standard, Hard and Endless. Standard is the intended way to play. Completing it unlocks Hard and Endless.

• Standard: play through the puzzles and investigate what is happening.
• Hard: face a greater challenge, with many new alterations and changes to how all puzzles are solved compared with Standard.
• Endless: start with everything unlocked and no puzzles. Focus on correcting alterations, including those from Standard and Hard as well as additional, more humorous Endless-only alterations. They occur faster and faster until you cannot keep up.

Statistics track your accomplishments across all modes and difficulties, and you can unlock achievements.