Home for Wayward Travellers

Home for Wayward Travellers Home for Wayward Travellers is an adult visual novel mixing sanctuary simulation and RPG. Shelter wayward strangers, keep morale high, solve time-rift puzzles, and shape relationships through choice-driven stories.

Home for Wayward Travellers

Home for Wayward Travellers is a visual novel made for mature audiences. It pairs stunning artwork with a mix of simulation and role-playing, delivering an immersive, story-driven experience. In this game, you step into the role of a shelter manager responsible for taking in people who’ve been stranded out of time and space.

Your goals are simple—but not always easy: keep your residents happy, nurture meaningful bonds, and stop time rifts from forming due to accidental, untimely interactions. As you collect time energy, you can also redesign your home’s layout, improving comfort and boosting the well-being of everyone inside.

Gameplay

Sanctuary Management Simulation

Run the shelter day to day. You’ll handle everything from allocating resources and upgrading facilities to planning activities that help maintain morale. A dynamic needs system means you must carefully balance comfort with safety—if travellers aren’t properly cared for, they may trigger unpredictable temporal events.

Temporal Anomaly Resolution

Track down and contain reality-warping incidents caused when residents interact with time in ways they shouldn’t. Stabilizing rifts happens through mini-games built around puzzle-solving. A Temporal Integrity Meter monitors overall stability; if it drops too far, the consequences can snowball into cascading paradoxes.

Relationship-Building Mechanics

Use conversation branches and personalized quests to learn each traveller’s background. Your decisions directly influence their emotional state and loyalty. As relationships grow, you may unlock special cooperative options during anomaly crises—plus romance-focused routes and subplots that can change how the story unfolds.

Deep Character Arcs

Meet characters from wildly different eras, such as a Victorian inventor, a futuristic soldier, or a prehistoric shaman. Each person brings their own quests and hidden pain. How you respond can lead to outcomes like redemption, departure, or tragedy.

Evolving Central Mystery

As anomalies intensify, you’ll piece together the truth from fragmented logs, resident testimony, and hidden clues. The twists reveal a darker influence manipulating time—pushing you to form alliances with unexpected allies or even former foes.

Key Features

Travel Guide

This app includes a detailed guide for stranded travellers, offering useful info such as local attractions, top restaurants, and activities. Use it to discover interesting places and make your trip feel more enjoyable.

Space-Time Guardian

As the protector of people lost in time, your main duty is preventing them from tearing the space-time continuum apart by accident. This feature explains how travellers can keep the continuum safe and avoid the harm that can result from uncontrolled time travel.

Meet and Interact with Interesting Characters

You’ll encounter a range of time-displaced characters. Interact with them, grow friendships, and possibly develop deeper connections. Learn more through interactive dialogue and choice-driven moments throughout the app.

Challenging Mini-Games

The game also offers tough mini-games designed to test your skills and thinking. Use them to practice solving puzzles tied to time travel and overcoming new challenges. These activities add variety and make the overall experience more engaging.

Space-Time Exploration

Explore multiple unique space-time dimensions. Each visit lets you experience the feeling of time travel and observe how space-time changes in different realities. Expect a distinct visual and atmospheric experience for every dimension you explore.

Mysterious Story

Expect a mystery-driven narrative that keeps you hooked from start to finish. You’ll uncover twists and turns while protecting the shelter of lost travellers. As the house’s secrets come to light, the story blends them with compelling time-travel elements.

Changelog

• 22 new quests added.
• Reworked timing for a sequence involving Amy: locked the “hands meeting” moment to occur after Amy is injured, so she isn’t referenced before it happens in the tank.
• Fixed Yumi’s quest failing to continue after her first kiss when playing the non-lesbian route. This was a major issue that went unnoticed for far too long—apologies for the delay.



• Fixed Abby’s text at the start of the pool event showing Amy’s name in the text box instead of Abby’s.
• Corrected some grammar issues in the pool event.
• Fixed various errors in the lab quests.

Developer Notes

• This is the developer’s first game and also their first attempt at tasks like coding rendering and writing.
• In free roam: when you load a save, it currently starts you at the beginning of the free roam section. The developer notes that no actual progress is lost, though they don’t yet know how to change the behavior.
• Additional future updates were mentioned, but the provided notes appear to be incomplete.