Abandoned Town (Community Project)

[Daktoa]

idk if this method is super convoluted, but I came up with a sort of order

Spoiler below!

There will be several "levels" of houses. Something like
Level 1: Houses with open doors/entrances. These will be the first areas you can access.
Level 2: Houses with stuck doors that could be broken into. You will need to collect crowbars and drills from the level 1 houses to access these.
Level 3: Houses with locked doors that cannot be crowbared, probably metal doors. You will have to collect keys from the level 2 houses.
Level 4: The final house. (Now this part is just me putting ideas out) You get the key to his house from a level 3 room and you open the door, but upon entry you realize his house is a large machine room with another mechanical door, and you need to go to the other level 3 house to get a switch that will operate the machine. This way it makes sure you visit all the level 3 houses before you can finish the game. Also for the machine part, perhaps the reason the town is abandoned is because he was building a time machine and he accidentally launched himself to the future. It's super cliched but it works with the machine concept.