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Gone Home
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June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM
You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Gone Home is an interactive exploration simulator. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there. Open any drawer and door. Pick up objects and examine them to discover clues. Uncover the events of one family's lives by investigating what they've left behind.
Go Home Again.
You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Gone Home is an interactive exploration simulator. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there. Open any drawer and door. Pick up objects and examine them to discover clues. Uncover the events of one family's lives by investigating what they've left behind.
Go Home Again.
- A Personal Story: created by veterans of the BioShock series and the writer behind Minerva's Den, Gone Home offers the rich, nuanced details of one family's struggles to deal with uncertainty, heartache, and change.
- An Immersive Place: return to the 1990s by visiting a home where every detail has been carefully recreated, and the sounds of a rainstorm outside wrap you in the experience.
- No Combat, No Puzzles: Gone Home is a nonviolent and puzzle-free experience, inviting you to play at your own pace without getting attacked, stuck, or frustrated. This house wants you to explore it.
- Fully Interactive Investigation: discover what's happened to the Greenbriars by examining a house full of the family's personal possessions, and the notes and letters they've left behind. Use your powers of observation to piece together a story that unfolds as you explore.
Gone Home® is copyright The Fullbright Company LLC, 2013.
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Destructoid
9/10
Despite there not being many engaging elements, I find that Gone Home is still a superb example of a narrative journey. We'll have to see in another five or fifty years just how Gone Home has set the stage for future immersive simulators.
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Recommended
Witty and melancholic, Gone Home is a triumphant exploration of a beautifully textured family space.
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4/5 stars
Video gaming meets 90's family drama in a finely-crafted piece of interactive fiction whose atmospheric story is intelligently articulated in a very compelling way. While Gone Home's experience is rather short, its characters will stay with you for days after you've finished the game - despite you never meeting them.
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Posted on: December 24, 2021
knuxyl
Verified ownerGames: 349 Reviews: 5
Designed to push an idea on you
Aesthetically, great game. Is not at all a ghost/mystery game like you would think. I won't give spoilers, but it is just designed to tell a story as going around clicking stuff. Terribly boring and you are being exposed to unnatural ideas. I wouldn't recommend this.
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Posted on: September 24, 2014
jcnfinch1
Verified ownerGames: 1042 Reviews: 1
Not Worth It
So much hype for this [insert noun other than game here] as a breakthrough in game design, but there's really nothing to it. It's not a game. It can literally be "beaten" in about 30 seconds, just by random clicking...but if you follow all the clues, it might take you 2-3 hours to find out that nobody seems to care about your character, your PC's teenage sister ran off with her lesbian lover in order to listen to some terrible 90's riot grrrl music, and your PC's parents completely forgot your PC was coming home from a year in Europe in order to go to a couples retreat because your PC's mom has the hots for her coworker and the dad is an alcoholic with issues stemming from being molested as a child by his uncle...whose house you happen to be exploring. And how do you discover all of this wonderful backstory, which wouldn't even fill out an hour-long after-school special? By walking around, looking at mundane objects, and having an occasional one trigger an overwrought diary entry from your obnoxiously self-absorbed teenage sister about her budding lesbianism. Even if the narrative itself is basically worthy of a soap opera, it could have been developed into something interesting...but it wasn't, and everything in the house makes the game scream low-budget. There is hardly any variety in the rooms, all the furniture looks the same, and is filled with the same 5 or so objects (pens and paper, etc.), and none of it makes much sense. I got this game on steam for $5, and still regret it. Don't even think of shelling out $20 for it.
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Posted on: October 13, 2014
kunterbond
Games: 98 Reviews: 1
Just story, but not meaningful
It's a short story, interactive like... hmmm a book. You click an item and get more story. You turn a page in a book and, yeah, get more story. Thats it. A teenage love story and some family background. 2-3 minimal puzzles, decent but static graphics, ok voiceover, thats it. But why the good reviews??? Because it's a lesbian love story or the parents have troubles too? Really, that's the big deal? Today? Read a good book or watch a film on this topics, don't waste your money on this. It's not meaningful or touching because it's not well written. And thats the only point this game??? has. And it fails.
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Posted on: March 4, 2021
AraxielPL
Games: 698 Reviews: 17
Coming out of age/lgbt vibes
Nothing more, nothing less, short game for 2-3 where you just explore empty house and discover what happened when our character was gone. Typical coming out of age motive with LGBT motive appearing. Nice experience.
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