Home Ground Games makes small strategy games about places that are somebody's home. You get eight years and a budget. Your borough finds out what you're like.
The idea is simple: take somewhere real — a London borough, an Irish county, a country at a World Cup — put you in charge, and see what you'd do with it. Every game runs on decisions rather than reflexes, and most of them have no right answer. Eight years later — or seven knockout rounds — you find out whether your instincts were any good. Each one is designed to be finished in a single sitting.
They're free to play, run in any modern browser with nothing to install, and remember your progress on your own device. Ads keep the lights on; that's the whole business model.
The games
- Postcode Envy — take charge of one of 32 London boroughs and climb the league, building and blundering your way to civic supremacy.
- Fierce Notions — steer an Irish county to the top over eight years, with grand plans, tight budgets, and neighbours with notions of their own.
- Nation to Glory — pick a nation, favourites or 1000/1 no-hopers, and make the forty calls that decide a World Cup.
Who makes them
Home Ground Games is one person, some evenings, and a lot of reading about places I've never lived. There's no studio. If a place is wrong — and for somewhere I've only read about, it might be — tell me and I'll fix it.
Say hello
Anything at all goes to our contact page or straight to support@homegroundgames.com.