Homer Nightmares Walkthrough: Escape the Simpsons Basement (Roblox)

Homer Nightmares turns a friendly visit to Bart’s house into a survival story. You arrive to find Homer acting strangely, Marge and Lisa missing, and a boarded-up basement hiding the truth. Finishing the game means completing a set of chores, collecting a chain of key items, defeating Homer, and detonating the basement to get everyone out.

Quick answer: Do Bart’s chores to stall Homer, steal the hammer to open the basement, dig up the access card in the backyard, melt the frozen cage key with hot water, beat Homer with the axe in the safe room, then place all 3 dynamite sticks and run upstairs to escape.

Controls and key items you need

Almost every action uses the interact key. Press E to knock, grab, or use an item, Z to unlock your mouse, and R to skip dialogue when the prompt appears. The run is a fixed sequence, so each item unlocks the next objective.

Item	Where to get it	What it does
Broom	Garage	Cleans the red stains off the floor
Burger	Fridge	Feeds Homer in the kitchen
Hammer	Garage, then Homer’s room	Breaks the planks on the basement door
Shovel	Homer’s bedroom wall	Digs up the backyard grave
Access card	Skeleton in the grave	Unlocks the basement door
Bucket of hot water	Kitchen sink and stove	Melts the ice around the cage key
Cage key	Frozen in the green fridge	Opens Marge and Lisa’s cage
Axe	Safe room floor	Defeats Homer in the boss fight
Dynamite (x3)	Hidden around the basement	Destroys the basement to escape

Chores before Homer returns

Walk up to the front door and knock with E. Bart meets you in the hallway and tells you to bring your suitcase to his room.

Head outside and grab the red suitcase, then go upstairs. You can inspect the boarded-up door on the way, but Bart will push you toward his room.

In Bart’s room, he explains that Homer is behaving strangely and that Marge and Lisa are gone. He then asks you to clean the house before Homer gets home in about 10 minutes.

Pick up the broom from the garage and scrub the red stains off the floor. Once cleaning is done, Homer arrives, demands food, and heads for the shower.

Meet Homer in the kitchen. Open the fridge, take the burger, and feed it to him. Talk to Bart afterward and go to sleep in Lisa’s room.

During the night you spot Homer’s shadow in the hallway and get confronted by him in the bedroom. Sit through the scare, then the next morning Bart asks you to cut the grass. Grab the lawnmower from the garage and mow the tall grass outside.

Open the basement: hammer, shovel, and access card

Back inside, you hear Bart crying. He tells you Homer went down to the basement with an axe. From here, the goal is to break into that basement, and it takes three tools in order.

Find the hammer in the garage. Homer takes it from you immediately, so wait until he is asleep, then sneak into his room and steal the hammer back.

Use the hammer to smash the wooden planks blocking the basement door.

Bart says you need a shovel to dig up an access card. Sneak past Homer again and take the shovel off the wall in his bedroom.

Go to the backyard and dig up the grave. You uncover a skeleton holding the basement access card.

Return to the basement door and use the access card to unlock it. Inside, you find Marge and Lisa trapped in a cage.

Free Marge and Lisa with the frozen key

Homer now patrols the basement, so movement matters. The cage key is frozen solid inside a green refrigerator, and you cannot pull it out directly.

When Homer walks the basement, hide until he passes. Then check the green fridge to find the cage key locked in a block of ice.

Bart’s plan is to melt the ice with hot water. Go upstairs and grab a bucket.

Fill the bucket at the kitchen sink, then heat it on the stove so the water is hot.

Carry the hot water back down to the basement and pour it on the ice to free the cage key.

Beat Homer and blow up the basement

Grabbing the key triggers the final confrontation. Homer corners you, and you have to run into a safe room to survive.

Escape into the safe room and pick up the axe lying on the floor.

Use the axe to fight and defeat Homer in the boss encounter.

Unlock the cage to free Marge and Lisa. Lisa suggests using dynamite to destroy the basement.

Collect all 3 sticks of dynamite hidden around the basement, then place each one at its spot.

Run upstairs with the family. You wake up in a red hallway and have to survive one last chase from Homer before reaching safety.

How to know you finished the game

The run ends when you escape the house and the basement explodes behind you. After the explosion, a short epilogue plays: Bart and your character talk in his room, followed by a teaser shot of Homer’s hand. Reaching that scene confirms you have cleared the game and hints that the story is not over.

If you stall out, it is almost always because an earlier item was skipped. The order is strict, so a missing broom, hammer, shovel, access card, or hot water will block the next objective. Backtrack to the last tool you were told to find, and Homer’s patrol timing is the only thing that can force a retry along the way.