Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 08:57 am
Leaving home – Puzzle Game Review
Leaving home is a Puzzle/Adventure game from Bart BONTE, first launched in 17th June 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 207+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Leaving home Stand Out
It’s 7:00 AM, the alarm rings. Some mornings feel heavier than others…
From puzzle maestro Bart Bonte comes a point-and-click adventure filled with quirky challenges, surreal surprises and moody tunes.
Undo the knots in your mind, one click at a time…
Leaving Home is a completely handcrafted point-and-click adventure that takes you through eight interconnected rooms, each with its own soundtrack, full of original puzzles that you must solve to make your way out.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Leaving home is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Leaving home is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Puzzles are challenging put not too hard, some puzzles at the end like the laundry toilet one were too hard for us though. Wonderful motivational quote at the end. This is probable our favorite puzzle game.
No ends are left untied- every detail is used in the end. Its the kind of puzzle that gives you a really satisfying a-ha moment when you remember something from a previous room or when all the little intentionally placed details come together. Although its short, its beautiful. Ill treasure our experience.
When will the sequel be released? We really liked the game, we want to continue playing it.
Best game ever played very fun puzzle game kinda tricky but so much fun.
We WISH there were more games like this. The art style is so nice, and the puzzles arent too easy or too hard. Sad it doesnt have unlimited puzzles.
We finished the game in one sitting we like how at the end it was all a metaphor.
Ive never left a review on an app before, because Ive simply never felt the urge to. But this fun puzzle game is amazing! Perfect for even beginner puzzlers but soothing in a way. We enjoyed working the bits of information out in our brain. The message is a powerful one as well and we really appreciate it.
This game is very good although the graphic of the person is a little creepy.
We love the art, colors, music, and concept. Weve be doing Rusty Lake for years, and have never been able to find anything comparable. This is a very similar concept. If you like Rusty Lake, this game should be down your alley.
Its fun, just its very hard to figure out if your bad at puzzle games! But honestly, we are, and we still love it! Would recommend to others.
First time reviewer in the app store and can we just say, this game was a brief but delightful puzzle! As someone whos a bit of a hermit, its a simple reminder that theres more that exists outside of these four walls. Definitely a great find for a tough therapy day. Thanks so much for creating this.
We so so love the art style, thats like the first thing we look for in a game haha, we had fun solving what was essentially an escape room game lol, we were stumped on the circles at the end, kudos to the game devs.
We finished orange and naturally after every great game we needed more, so here we are. Highly recommend this game and orange! Looking forward to more future games.
Challenging enough that we didnt just fly right through the game. Great game :)) quite fun.
Just try it, dont quit like a butthurt loser, the music alone is worth the play through.
Love your games. Please release more.
We really love this game the challenge was there but not too much to quit the deep meaning also is something Ive never seen in a game and as a disabled person leaving the house feels like going to a 9/5 on 2 hours of sleep so this reminder was really nice.
This is the most unique but fantastic game ive ever played. Its clear a lot of thought went into creating it. The music, the mechanics, and the overall concept is just perfect! Never have we played a game like this. Its difficult, but were in need of difficult games lately. Thank you to the devs for creating a masterpiece like this.
So so fun and challenging!!! Forces u to think outside the box and focus on finding patterns!! So intriguing for us personally although this is not for everyone. We also just loved how puzzles in different rooms were connected and this game overall just seems to be very well thought out and designed. Art work is minimalist and cute!! We love the cat, and overall such a good game!! Please make more puzzles like these, which also have a meaning. We love how this puzzle depicts the challenges some people face to get out of their home, physical or mental challenges.
We loved the game so much! We really wish there were more levels but her house is also really gigantic lol It was challenging but simple at the same time, yk? We did get kind of a horror game vibe from it tho, idk why. Take all our stars.
Lots of fun.sometimes you have to think really hard to get the right way out.
Some challenges are very very hard and but other than that amazing everything. Fun puzzles, satisfying patterns, cute ending message. We loved this game.
We beat this game in about an hour but it was enough to get our brain going. It takes noticing small clues and overall is a pretty good puzzle. Hope theres more to come.
This was such an amazing download! The usage of color and shape was consistent throughout the whole game, and the puzzles were complex while still adhering to the themes established. We despise when puzzle games hold our hand too much, so sticking additional hints behind an ad was perfect. The music and sound design were lovely, and there was a cat!! We would wish there was more to play, but we strongly believe that video games are art, and we would never tell an artist that they were wrong about an aspect of their own creation.
Once in a blue moon, a game comes around that is simpleyet layered with unique puzzles. The art style is simplistic, but it works out well hereespecially paired with the groovy jazzy background music. All the clues are there.no hints needed if you just trust your intuition and puzzle skills. Looking forward to more puzzle games like this. Thank you Dev! Peace.
Marvelous game, love from China.
It is more fun than expected,puzzles are attractive. Dont miss itlooking forward to new works.
Simple yet interesting game. Puzzles were challenging but not too hard. Music was relaxing! Hope to see more games from you, we really enjoyed it.
Awesome entry into the puzzle/escape room genre. Totally free and theres only ads if you need hints.
This game is the best game in the world and the game is just like us when we wake up ever morning we leave something at less.
We finished this in one day but the puzzles were hard yet fun, the message is beautiful, and the game is actually enjoyable. There are ads but the game doesnt force you to watch them, you have to watch 2 short ads when you need a hint but other than that theres no ads. We absolutely love this game, keep up the good work, creator.
Theres so much to this game. Unique aesthetic, challenging puzzles, and a leading message that leads to a hopeful ending. Accomplishes a lot for an iPhone game.
We loved this game and the puzzles were just challenging enough to stretch your brain but we finished all of them in one day! A bit disappointing but otherwise great.
We really liked this game! As a less math-oriented and more creative-oriented person, we felt like this game was the perfect intersection of both. Other than the final room, we felt like all of the rooms and puzzles were the perfect level of solve-able and challenging. Cool, calming graphics and simple yet neat premise.
We must say this game is very challenging (especially the whole living room level) and we think that the creator should get a lot more credit for the games they make (we. E., logica emotica, the color series, etc.), as they use challenging logic, but not too challenging that you have to look at a gameplay video, and they also usually have a splash of creativity through literature at the end (a poem), or at least thats how it is in this game and the color series. The poem at the end of leaving home made us realize that, as an anxious person ourselves, hanging on to everything and associating things with our anxiety will only dis-align things of value for us (friendship, family, arts), and that if we let go of our irrational thoughts, those things will be able to come into play more, and help us remove ourselves from our thoughts. However, we must say we were dissatisfied when we got to the end and there wasnt really a story to the game; part of the description reads some mornings feel heavier than others. This statement didnt really come through in the game. If said heaviness is the fact we have to do a bunch of stuff (all the puzzles) and it overwhelms us, not that much reflects that in the game. The music, in part, does, as when we near the end of the game, the music gets more discomforting, but nothing else AT ALL really shows that message. We felt like the description set us up for something that wasnt there. The little pattern-maker bonus is nice though.
This game has a different approach to problem-solving than the typical point-and-click escape game: the puzzles are more focused on pattern manipulation, similar to Bart Bontes color puzzles. We like this a lot! Its novel and rewards exploration without being excessively difficult. We would eagerly play more games like this.
Im a fan of almost everything that Bart Bonte does, but this game might be the most fun Ive had with his games since we first played Yellow. Its unique, its clever, and its fun to see what each new room has to discover. The way he deals with ads is so refreshing that Im happy to give him a few bucks just to say thanks. Another 5-Star game to add to his fantastic collection.
We are a huge fan of your games. Theyre a good brain workout plus we love the messages at the end of your games.
Loved this. Calm background music and medium level puzzles. Took us maybe a few hours in total. Pleasant find.
Cute, elegant, no glitches; puzzle interesting but not impossible. Thank you.
Its fun, and the puzzles challenge you in a good way. Good job Bart Bonte.
There were several times where we thought we were stuck, but we eventually got it. We ended up using 2 hints, but one of them didnt really help. Over all, well thought out puzzles, affordances, and hints.
Great game. We loved it from start to finish. We liked that to receive a hint we watched an ad. We watched quite a few ads! Thank you for creating this game.
This was such a fun game. We were referred by Rusty Lake. The last game they suggested was, in our opinion, awkward, the Italian language was not appreciated, just not a user friendly game. But, this game was intuitive, colorful, needed no language and was just a genuine delight to play. Thank you Bart for the lovely game, cheers.
Honestly we really loved how challenging this game is, its not hard enough to make us feel stupid but hard enough to give a challenge. And we totally wasnt even thinking of the ending or story much at the beginning just thought it was a cute puzzle game but once we got to the end we were honestly just so surprised in the best ways possible. Just downloaded the second most recent game thats come out from this dev and Im so excited to see how that goes.
Really enjoyed the puzzles, music, concept, art, just the overall atmosphere of this one. The message at the end was sweet, and it was fun to see the little callbacks to prior works hidden in the game as well :).
This is our favorite puzzle style by Bart Bonte. The clues to solve the puzzles are all around, but will you see them? Dont be too quick to click on that hint button – we regret giving up too quickly on some of the earlier ones.
Barte Bonte always releases amazing games. This game came out today on our birthday and was a great way to start our birthday! Thank you as always for an amazing and thought-provoking puzzle game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 31.41 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Bart BONTE
Last updated: 14th September 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Bart BONTE