Making it Home

Released: Sep 3, 2021
Platforms: WindowsLinux
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 11:58 GMT

Updates & announcements

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20 Aug 2026Developer post
We have made another game about things you cannot quite control
Making it Home was about building a machine and then running around on top of it to keep it moving. The new one takes the machine away and gives you an ecosystem instead, which turns out to be significantly less cooperative. Captain Contraption's Safari Park is a roguelite safari
23 Jul 2026Developer post
All Our Games Are on Sale and Playtest our Next one for Free 🎉
If you’ve been meaning to check out any of our games, they’re all on sale right now, and you can playtest our next game for free! View game page View game page View game page View game page View game page Thanks so much for the support — it really helps us keep making weird littl
27 Jan 2026Developer post
All Our Games Are on Sale 🎉
If you’ve been meaning to check out any of our games, they’re all on sale right now. Thanks so much for the support — it really helps us keep making weird little games.
27 Jan 2026Developer post
All Our Games Are on Sale 🎉
If you’ve been meaning to check out any of our games, they’re all on sale right now. Thanks so much for the support — it really helps us keep making weird little games.
07 Jan 2026Developer post
Wishlist our new safari park management game on Steam!
Hey everyone! Just wanted to quickly let you know about our next game, Captain Contraption’s Safari Park, which we’ve just put up on Steam. It’s a safari park management game built around a fully simulated ecosystem. You run a park where animals (and some less sensible things) li
18 Dec 2025Developer post
Want to playtest our next game??
Hello! Dave and I have been quietly working on our next game and are looking for volunteers for playtesting. You can sign up here It's a safari park with a fully simulated ecosystem in a nostalgic tycoon sandbox with rewarding roguelite elements. Clone bizarre species, unlock new
04 Oct 2025Developer post
Fix for Unity Vulnerability
Fixed Unity security vulnerability detailed here
20 Jul 2024Developer post
Our new game Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory is Out Now
It’s a big day for robot chocolatiers around the world. The whole of Captain Contraption’s factory is now available to explore, as you experiment with fresh ingredients and automate ever more complex machines. With 40+ levels to unlock, as well as brand new achievements and fiend
27 Apr 2023Developer post
Play Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory in the Steam Puzzle Fest
You can now play the demo for our next game Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory by visiting the store page using the link below. It’s an open ended factory, automation style puzzle game. Using a simple set of tools you’ll need to automate production of a variety of sweet trea
26 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch Notes 1.4.3
Fixed a bug which was stopping this month's sandbox challenge to launch.
Fixed a bug which was stopping this month's sandbox challenge to launch.
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19 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch Notes v1.4.2
Increased rate of panel unlocks in the story mode. Improved performance of vehicles which have lots of rocket engines. Updated to Unity 2019.4.40. Updated all 3rd party libaries.
Increased rate of panel unlocks in the story mode.
Improved performance of vehicles which have lots of rocket engines.
Updated to Unity 2019.4.40.
Updated all 3rd party libaries.
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14 Mar 2022Developer post
Update Notes v1.4.1
Fixed the bug which sometimes stopped drones appearing in Kingman. Drones now update their target more frequently. Drones fly closer to your vehicle to make them easier to jump on.
Fixed the bug which sometimes stopped drones appearing in Kingman.
Drones now update their target more frequently.
Drones fly closer to your vehicle to make them easier to jump on.
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28 Feb 2022Developer post
Major Update v1.4.0 Available Now
The forth major update to Making it Home is out now! There are lots of changes which were are really excited to see you get your teeth stuck into... New Panels There are three new vehicle components for you to play with. The first two are switches which get activated by propeller
The forth major update to Making it Home is out now! There are lots of changes which were are really excited to see you get your teeth stuck into...
New Panels
There are three new vehicle components for you to play with. The first two are switches which get activated by propellers and lasers - to let you set up chain reactions and maybe even start doing something close to programming!
And the third is a steam powered rocket engine which will rapidly empty all the water tanks above it to give you a big boost in thrust. We've also added a bunch of new challenge mode templates to the weekly, daily and monthly rotation which will highlight these new components.
Cozy Mode
You can now experience the entire single player story mode with hazards and objectives turned off. This is for those of you who just want to stretch your engineering and design muscles without the worry of drones and low bridges.
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Lots of Blueprint Editor Improvements
Spending the past few months doing the daily challenges (mostly for our TikTok) gave me time to think about and reflect on how we actually use the blueprint editor. So I took the time to polish it and make some changes, some of these based on your feedback.
So check out the juicy patch notes below, grab yourself a copy if you don't have one, and jump in!
Version 1.4.0 Patch Notes
New Content

New panel: Propeller Activated Switch.
New panel: Laser Activated Switch.
New panel: Steam powered rocket.
New mode: Cozy mode.
19 new challenge templates added to the challenge mode rotations.
Blueprint Editor Changes

You can now filter panels by type and act.
Scaffolding is now automatically built so you can create panels in "mid air".
Default scaffolds are made with a bottom floor which means new players won't get stuck with inaccessible panels.
There is now a visual indicator when you mouse over any component in blueprint mode. This makes quick changing platforms easier and just feels nicer.
You can now hold left mouse button to "paint" panels.
Changed the sound logic so placement sound effects happen consistently.
Other Changes

The tutorial display now appears on the left hand side of the screen during gameplay. This means that approaching hazards and coins are no longer obscured by it.
Text in initial cut scene now transitions faster.
Solar panel is now correctly displayed when available in the challenge mode.
Updated Unity to latest 2019 version.
Auto sail trim is now an act 1 panel.
Improved performance during final boss battle.
Challenge modes now only happen between 6am to 6pm following constructive negotiations with the ladybug union committee.
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24 Feb 2022Developer post
Remote Play Together 2022
Making it Home will be taking part in this year's Remote Play Together event on Steam. As part of this we will be streaming the game on 4th March at 7PM GMT. You can set a reminder by clicking the button on the side bar to the right of this announcement. Also, we will be launchin
13 Feb 2022Developer post
Patch Notes v1.3.1
Fixed bug in challenge and sandbox modes which meant water tanks and solar panels were not always given to the player when specified. Reduced the budgets in some of the challenge mode templates.
Fixed bug in challenge and sandbox modes which meant water tanks and solar panels were not always given to the player when specified.
Reduced the budgets in some of the challenge mode templates.
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03 Feb 2022Developer post
Challenge Mode and Sandbox update!
Happy February everybody! Making it Home version 1.3.0 is out now. The list of changes is small, but they are significant. We noticed that you were not really playing the challenge modes much, other than the $10,000 sandbox, so the focus of this update is to try and improve the c
Happy February everybody! Making it Home version 1.3.0 is out now.
The list of changes is small, but they are significant. We noticed that you were not really playing the challenge modes much, other than the $10,000 sandbox, so the focus of this update is to try and improve the challenge mode.
We have made a few key changes. Firstly, we have reduced the number of challenge modes so there are now three challenges and one sandbox. Before there was just so much choice I think it was overwhelming.
Secondly, we have enabled more of the modifiers from the story campaign. Expect to see motherships, carrots and bridges in all the challenge modes (but not the sandbox).
Thirdly, we have removed the complete randomness from before. Instead we have hand crafted 69 sets of vehicle components which are picked at random. Each set has a sort of theme and tries to make you think about vehicle design differently. We wanted to give those of you who love optimising a vehicle design a new mini challenge just waiting for you each day if you fancy it.
Now this is rather experimental, we'll be keeping an eye on the leader boards, but do let us know what you think! Either here on Steam or on our Discord. Happy building!
v1.3.0 Patch Notes

Updated to Unity 2019.4.35f
Added 69 new challenge templates.
There is now a single daily, weekly and monthly challenge alongside the sandbox mode.
The vehicle does no longer save it's state in challenge and sandbox modes. Essentially this means if any panels get destroyed during a challenge mode run they will reappear in blueprint mode when you retry.
Fixed a bug caused when two panels in the same column get destroyed in the same frame.
Changed the random distribution of panel unlocks in Act 1 to improve the new player experience.
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03 Jan 2022Developer post
Update Notes for v1.2.2
Added a base to the boulder press to stop it inverting and causing the physics to break. Fixed bug which meant that pumpkins were invisible during the winter season (don't ask). Tweaked masses of all physics objects to reduce the frequency of objects being pushed through walls. (
Added a base to the boulder press to stop it inverting and causing the physics to break.
Fixed bug which meant that pumpkins were invisible during the winter season (don't ask).
Tweaked masses of all physics objects to reduce the frequency of objects being pushed through walls. (Hopefully it won't happen at all now)
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27 Dec 2021Developer post
Patch Notes v1.2.1
Updated to latest Steamworks API Added character limit to design description. Loading steam workshop designs should no longer block the load/save design menu screen.
Updated to latest Steamworks API
Added character limit to design description.
Loading steam workshop designs should no longer block the load/save design menu screen.
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20 Dec 2021Developer post
Holiday Update
Happy Holidays everybody! Wherever you are I hope you are able to have a little bit of a break over the coming weeks. To help you relax and get into the holiday spirit here is a plump content update for Making it Home! With this update our philosophy was to just make stuff for yo
Happy Holidays everybody!
Wherever you are I hope you are able to have a little bit of a break over the coming weeks. To help you relax and get into the holiday spirit here is a plump content update for Making it Home! With this update our philosophy was to just make stuff for you to play with. We have introduced a bunch of new panels which we don't know how you're going to use - and we can't wait to see what you do with them!
Highlights
The universal switch which will open the door to building complex chain reaction style vehicles (and is the first step on our journey to adding programming style panels to the game).
Pinball flippers which are exactly what you think they are.
...and despite my best judgement we added 4 player co-op (local and on-line through steam remote play together).
Patch Notes
New Content

New Panel: Boulder Press
New Panels: Universal Switches
New Panels: Switchable Diagonal Floors
New Panels: Pinball flippers
New Panels: Garage Doors
New Panel: Trap Door
New Seasonal Sprites for Winter.
Co-op is now possible with up to 4-players. This is pretty experimental, and kinda dumb - have fun with it!
Improvements

You can now zoom the camera in and out. You might need to reset your control bindings to get this to work.
Updated to latest version of Unity3D 2019 LTS
The direction propellers are turned due to wind has been reversed. This means that the balls which are blown by wind will no longer block them from turning.
Changed the position and wording of the save/load vehicle in blueprint mode. This is an attempt to get more people using the workshop.
Lots of performance improvements. Some vehicle designs are seeing a 6 times increase in framerate with this patch. In particular vehicles which rely on balls.
Bug Fixes

Some of the ball panels would not correctly spawn all their balls. This has been fixed.
Ball bearings can no longer spawn into themselves or other objects.
Fixed the centre of mass of the ball bearings, they now correctly behave like balls.
Portals would sometimes transport the cake ingredient on top of the drones causing strange looking behaviour. This has been fixed.
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24 Nov 2021Developer post
Nominate Us for Most Innovative Gameplay!
It is steam award time! Look, we know we are a small team with a small game on Steam - but we're proud of what we've made and lots of people keep telling us they haven't quite played a game like this before. So please consider helping us spread the word about Making it Home by no

Updates & announcements

New Panels

Cozy Mode

Lots of Blueprint Editor Improvements

Version 1.4.0 Patch Notes

New Content

Blueprint Editor Changes

Other Changes

v1.3.0 Patch Notes

Highlights

Patch Notes

New Content

Improvements

Bug Fixes