A Portal Home

by lonthy
co-authored: @pimeko, @raamxie
*A handcrafted, human-made game.*

Best experienced with headphones and in fullscreen!

About


Escape a haunted retro-futuristic spaceship by fixing a broken teleport. A portal will open and bring you back home :)), well... hopefully. You can collect cassette recordings which after being played will tell you how to repair the teleporter step by step. Read them out carefully!

Notes:
- *If your mouse cursor ends up visible because of notifications or ALT-tabbing, you can fix it by pausing the game (TAB).*
- *First startup may lag/freeze after the intro, bear with it for a few seconds and then it's fine:)) (probably some material/light loading issues).*


Hints / Walkthrough


- The cassettes are meant to be inserted and then played in order from 1 to 8. If you have some but are missing the earlier ones, e.g., #1, you need to find #1 first. To insert a cassette into the player, you click on the cassette window and the ones that are in order will be automatically inserted.
- Repairing any part of the teleporter plays a short, success cue sound.
- To throw you off, the valve starts already with one rotation to the right, so as Alice says, it is 2 rotations and 45 degrees from the very left (closed) position. Afterwards, a screwdriver will drop down on the ground.
- To put the cables in order, click on one end and then the other to connect them. If you want to disconnect some, right click on one of the ends, not the cable itself.
- SPOILER: *When the monster comes after some time lurking, hide in the closet by dragging the door open and then physically walking into it.*

Controls

- Mouse, WASD - movement

- TAB - menu/pause

- E - interact

- F - toggle flashlight

- Left click, right click and dragging to interacting with the objects

Team


- @Pimeko - Music composing, sfx, intro and outro writing
- @Siname - 3D assets, post-processing
- @Raamxie - programming, design, cassette texts writing
- @Lonthy - programming, vfx

Update/Disclaimer

*An update with fixes was uploaded after the submission deadline. We have fixed game-breaking bugs which blocked progression/controls in the game and some web-export related bugs.*

Comments6

gamescodedogs
gamescodedogs20 Oct 2026, 17:09
I laughed when the caption “There is a nice intro here, meow, woof” appeared. That was funny.

But once I started playing, I got stuck in the valve-turning interaction. After trying to turn the valve, I couldn’t move away from it to continue playing. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. I tried pressing Escape, the arrow keys, Space, and Enter, but nothing worked.
ya7on20 Oct 2026, 18:47
My character went out of bounds, and I saw a debug copy of the location
FireSlash
FireSlash21 Oct 2026, 02:32
I managed to somehow get out of the valve interaction after a bit but the safe was a softlock as best as I can tell.

Instructions would go a long way here to explain what to do.
Stefan B.
Stefan B.21 Oct 2026, 09:01
had quite some trouble with the valve with trackpad
givit-game-studios
givit-game-studios21 Oct 2026, 15:39
I loved the intro hahaha, but unfortunately the game was very laggy on my end, even with a strong pc and internet.
NuclMe
NuclMe21 Oct 2026, 17:12
Great game, but my PC froze while I was playing it. The sound and the game itself are really good, though!

Other games by @lonthy

Found a bug?
Tell us on Discord