No Man's Home

No Man's Home is a hardcore survival game set in the Asran Exclusion Zone, an open, radioactive world shaped by persistent NPCs and their own goals. You gather resources, craft items, hunt for food and manage needs such as hydration, nutrition and sleep while navigating the zone’s dangers. There are no loading screens.

The Asran Exclusion Zone

Asran endured a 12-year civil war that ended with a nuclear explosion, creating the zone. The blast also produced strange, illuminating artifacts called Radianite, which factions now fight over. The zone is marked by violent factions, ongoing battles, wildlife and radioactive emissions. Faction politics are unstable: people enter the zone and join factions to pursue money, and you can fight against these factions or become part of one.

A simulated world

Every NPC persists in the world until eliminated by the world, whether or not you can see them. NPCs pursue assigned goals, make friends and enemies, complete jobs like the player, fight for their factions and place bounties on enemies. Their goals can lead them to capture or defend camps, work on jobs given by other NPCs or avenge fallen faction members, creating unscripted situations and dynamic faction wars.

You can use binoculars to observe people around you. NPCs use cover-based behaviour, selecting cover after analyzing their surroundings, and can lean, crouch, heal themselves and use advanced search algorithms to overcome opponents. Fights can also involve weapon attachments and drones: you can equip weapons with scopes, silencers, flashlights and lasers, and attach explosives to FPV drones. NPCs can use kamikaze drones to hunt you down. Weapons can jam depending on their condition.

Survival and combat

Combat can leave you fatally wounded, so you need to carry medical supplies such as antibiotics and bandages. Each critical wound requires its own treatment: after being shot, you must remove the bullet before bandaging the wound, and bullet wounds can become infected. You treat infections with antibiotics.

In the hot desert, you need to manage hunger and thirst. Explore to mark water locations, hunt animals for meat and cook it at dedicated campfires. Wildlife can be hostile, and you can collect resources and craft items when you run out of options.

Radiated areas and pockets of radiation pose another threat; a geiger counter can help you avoid them. Radioactive dust storms occasionally shake the ground and carry radioactive dust on the wind. You need to seek shelter immediately during a storm to avoid radiation, and treat radiation sickness with anti-radiation medication.