Way Back Home

He was a father before he was a monster.

One night the city fell. Something inside him broke open, and when it was over, the thing that burst through the wall of his apartment was not a man any more.

His wife Sara and his daughter Lily are on the other side of the city. Five monsters stand between him and home, and each of them has stolen a piece of who he was: his eyes, his voice, his hands, his heart.

Take them back. Keep enough of yourself to be worth coming home to.

What it is

• A top-down action horror story in five chapters, painted in ink and ash.
• Fight like a monster: a three-hit claw combo, heavy blows, dodges and a parry that leaves enemies open for a brutal riposte.
• Four monstrous skills — Rend, Pounce, Roar, Devour. Every one costs a little of your Humanity.
• Humanity decides the ending. Protect the survivors and you might walk through your front door as a man. Let the hunger win, and your family may never know it was you.
• Five bosses, each guarding a part of you, each with a deadly second phase.
• Every reclaimed part costs you a weapon: as you become human again, your monster skills fade and must be fed with kills.
• Fully voiced story, original score, and a journal between chapters.

Controls

Keyboard & mouse: WASD move · Shift run · Space dodge · Left click attack · Shift + Left click heavy attack · Right click parry · 1–4 skills · Esc pause

Touch: left thumb to move (push far to run), right thumb for Attack (hold for heavy), Dodge, Parry and the skill ring. Play in landscape.

Progress saves automatically in your browser.

Credits

A game by Luqman Hakeem, made for RUN October Jam 2026 (theme: Monster Mash). Built with Claude Code and Codex.

City, lighting and painted look built in code with three.js. Character concept art, music and voices generated with RUN. Character models, rigging and animation made with Meshy. Sound effects are CC0 recordings from Freesound.

Also playable on RUN.