Posted on: December 21, 2014

mintee

Games: 802 Reviews: 122

enjoyable interactive story game

I think the lesser reviews come from people who expected a 'game', it's not, its an interactive story. You get the bits and pieces of the story via exploration, finding pages of journals, rummaging around drawers for clues. I found it very enjoyable. The ambiance was very immersive. It IS short, like others said, took me around 3 hrs with a break for supper in between. Thats ok as I got this on sale but I expect others buying at full price might feel a let down. Overall, it was an immersive exploration of a novella, though I kept expecting zombies, dead bodies or other heavily used game cliches to jump out at me it was rather a touching story which I wont spoil. I do feel that the devs could have gone into more detail on the other barely fleshed out sub plots with the other family members and the inheritance/haunted house issue. Maybe I missed a journal or clue but that was left hanging. will enjoy more offerings from this dev in the future

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Posted on: February 11, 2015

Lt Frank Drebin

Games: 68 Reviews: 1

gone home

dont waste your time

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Posted on: November 12, 2014

entropyblade

Games: Reviews: 1

Its Not A Game

Terrible purchase, not a game, no challenge, lasts an hour at most. Story is terribly clichéd and done much much better elsewhere. I bought it because of the reviews, but I cannot figure out how this terrible piece of crap game got such a high mark. Avoid like the plague, not worth it even for 99p.

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Posted on: August 14, 2014

Ultra_DTA

Games: 484 Reviews: 7

Really?

It felt like freeware, seriously. A psuedo-game that hides behind its subject matter. Though without that, nobody ever hears of this "game".

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Posted on: July 11, 2021

FKAWMEWB

Verified owner

Games: 171 Reviews: 22

Early entry into a meaningful genre

Remember 2013, when people were still arguing if interactive narrative experiences were allowed to call themselves games? Remember those transformative last minutes of BioShock 2's Minerva's Den DLC (2010), when guns and plasmids were finally silent and Subject Sigma quietly walked through an accidental museum of his past? Members of the same team went on to create Gone Home, an early entry into the genre sometimes disparagingly called walking simulator. Responding to the often searing criticism here on GOG, I suppose it's fair to say that Gone Home isn't entirely as rich as later games like Firewatch or What Remains of Edith Finch (both 2017). But is it a worse game? One of the top reviews chides GH for its "ridiculous teen-age love-story" - not technically wrong perhaps, as teenage love stories are usually ridiculous - but when was the last time you had a ridiculous teenage love story told to you like this, through the eyes of a relative wandering through a deserted house, documents, memorabilia and audio cassettes affording a glimpse into everyone's lives? Another top review awards the game one star because Sam's actions were "selfish, misguided, immature, and unrealistic" and her relationship with the player character "was also immature and unhealthy." If the teenage main character's immaturity affects you enough to hate the game, the game must have done a pretty good job at characterisation, no? To me, this is the point of these games - exploring a world that isn't about you and doesn't necessarily need you, but allows you to learn and empathise with the people inhabiting it. Even with a more highly rated game like Firewatch, what do you remember - the convoluted and implausible main story, or Henry and Delilah? GH is a short experience and doesn't technically have a lot of replay value - still I've found myself returning to it several times over the years, with different thoughts and feelings as I myself grew older. I like it.

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