About Home Alone
Home Alone is a short low-poly horror game by Mediasaur built around the most ordinary night a teenager can have. Your parents head out to a fancy dinner, you stay behind because you are old enough now, and a list of chores is waiting on the kitchen counter. Get through the list and the rest of the evening belongs to you. That is the deal, anyway.
The core of the Home Alone game was made in a single week for the Brackeys Game Jam 2022.2 and has since picked up quality-of-life patches. It wears its influences openly: Mediasaur names Fears to Fathom and the Puppet Combo titles as inspiration, and you can feel both in the grainy PlayStation-era models, the cramped suburban rooms, and the way the house seems to get quieter the longer you stay in it.
What makes it worth your time is the pacing. Home Alone does not open with a monster. It opens with a watering can and a frozen pizza, and it lets the chores lower your guard. By the time something feels wrong, you have already come to treat the house as safe, which is exactly the mistake the game is counting on.
How to Play Home Alone
- Walk through the house with WASD.
- Left-click to interact with objects and to advance dialogue.
- Use the right mouse button to zoom in when you want a closer look at something.
- Press P any time you need to pause.
- Find the list on the kitchen counter: reheat the pizza, water the plants, clean the kitchen, and get the laundry into the machine.
- Work through the chores one at a time. Finishing them is what pushes the night forward.
What Makes Home Alone Scary
Familiarity. Every scare in Home Alone is attached to a routine task, so the fear never comes from a dungeon or a ruined asylum. It comes from a kitchen window, a hallway you walked down two minutes earlier, and noises that ought to have a boring explanation. The rough PSX look helps rather than hurts. Blocky shapes and dim corners leave gaps, and your imagination fills them with something worse than a detailed model could ever show.
Mediasaur describes the project as a demo-sized prototype that trims the mechanics and turns up the scares, and that is a fair summary of this Home Alone horror game. There is no inventory to juggle and no combat system to learn. There is only you, a to-do list, and a growing sense that the quiet outside is not empty. Whether you stumble or leave the night on your own terms depends on how you handle what comes next.
Tips for Home Alone
- Wear headphones. The strange sounds build steadily, and they carry most of the tension.
- Read every line of dialogue. The game communicates what it wants through short prompts.
- Use the zoom to check windows and dark doorways before you walk up to them.
- Learn the layout of the house during the calm opening. Knowing your way around may matter later.
- Keep moving through the list. The night advances as the chores get done, so stalling only delays the story.
Who Made Home Alone
Mediasaur made Home Alone as their first itch.io release and their first game jam entry, created for the Brackeys Game Jam 2022.2. The game was published on itch.io for browsers and Windows, and FunClicker embeds the creator's own HTML5 build, so you can play Home Alone online here without installing anything. For the Windows download and Mediasaur's other projects, visit Mediasaur on itch.io.
FAQ
Is Home Alone free?
Yes. Home Alone is free to play in your browser on this page, with no account, no download, and nothing to buy. FunClicker embeds Mediasaur's own HTML5 build, so what loads here is the same browser release the developer published on itch.io. A Windows version is also available from the creator's page if you would rather play offline.
How scary is Home Alone?
It is a slow burn that tightens fast. Home Alone spends its opening minutes on chores so the house feels normal, then lets odd sounds and glimpses pile up until the calm breaks. If you enjoyed Fears to Fathom or Puppet Combo games, the tone will feel familiar. It is short, so the tension never has time to wear off.
How do you play Home Alone?
Move with WASD, left-click to interact and advance dialogue, use the right mouse button to zoom, and press P to pause. Start by finding your parents' list in the kitchen, then complete each chore on it. The story moves forward as you tick tasks off, and the ordinary evening slowly stops being ordinary.
Who made Home Alone?
Home Alone was made by Mediasaur, an independent developer on itch.io. It was their first published game and their first jam entry, built in a week for the Brackeys Game Jam 2022.2 and patched afterward. FunClicker did not make the game. We embed the creator's original browser build and link back to Mediasaur's page.
Can I play Home Alone on mobile or a Chromebook?
A Chromebook with a keyboard and mouse or trackpad works fine, since the game runs in any modern browser. Phones and tablets are a poor fit. Home Alone needs WASD to move and both mouse buttons for interacting and zooming, and there are no touch controls. For the best experience, play on a computer.
Is Home Alone unblocked at school?
It often is, as long as your network allows this site. Home Alone runs in a single browser tab with no download, plugin, or login, which clears the usual technical hurdles. Whether a school or library filter lets it through is outside our control. Keep in mind it is a horror game and the sound matters.
Does Home Alone have jump scares?
Expect some. Mediasaur set out to turn up the scares, and the game borrows from series known for sudden shocks. Most of the run is quiet, creeping tension while you do chores, but when the night turns, it turns quickly. Lower your volume before you start if loud surprises bother you.
Is Home Alone based on the movie?
No. Home Alone is an original indie horror game by Mediasaur, not an adaptation of the holiday comedy. The only overlap is the setup of a kid left at home while the parents are out. Instead of slapstick traps, you get a chore list, a quiet house, and a night that goes badly wrong.
