Publisher Shift Now and developer YGGDRAZIL announced over the weekend that Home Sweet Home: Survive, the predecessor to the 2023 follow-up, Home Sweet Home: Online will finally be retired and taken offline on September 1st. The announcement outlines Survive‘s peculiar existence as a beta build of the game that was kept online for “players who miss the original gameplay”.
The Home Sweet Home: Survive team would like to inform everyone that players will be able to access Home Sweet Home: Survive until September 1, 2024, as the game has been fully developed into Home Sweet Home: Online.
Home Sweet Home: Survive was first launched on Steam in Early Access on March 25, 2021. It then transitioned to OBT2 on May 5, 2022, and was further developed into a separate game, Home Sweet Home: Online, on June 22, 2023.
The purpose of splitting the game into two versions was to preserve the unique experience and nostalgic feel of OBT2 for players who miss the original gameplay. Currently, the majority of players have moved to Home Sweet Home: Online, which is continuously updated and developed.
We have closed the in-game purchase and transaction systems for Home Sweet Home: Survive since June 15, 2023. All your account data was transferred to the Home Sweet Home: Online version on June 22, 2023.
After access to Home Sweet Home: Survive is closed, all players can still access Home Sweet Home: Online as usual. It is available as a free-to-play game and can be downloaded from the following link: Click Here
Steam Announcement – June 01, 2024
Thanks to the anonymous reader who pointed out the news to the site. We’ve added the date to the Watch List calendar and will have a page up on the site later.