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 Ho...
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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Don't listen to the negative reviews. People love to bash this game for being short, or lacking replay value, or not being what they expected, what have you. It is a short game, indeed, but the experience you'll take from it is unforgettable, told in the most expert way, with an ending so perfect it made my spine tingle and eyes tear up.
The immersion in this game is incredible. There is no hand-holding throughout, no exposition-heavy cinematics crammed down your throat -- you learn the story as you explore, and the mansion is so packed with detail you'll want to explore every bit of it to understand exactly what's going on, and who these characters are. It truly is a brilliant experience, and deserves all the praise from critics it has received, and none of the negativity from users. If this isn't your cup o' tea, then move on. Don't ruin the game for others who might appreciate all the many things it has to offer.
I rarely do reviews but this time I feel I must seeing all the rage against "walking simulators" lately. There's a distinction that should be made between actual games and visual novels. I understand gamers looking for an actual adventure games are let down by these kind of "games" thus these should have a genre name separating them from actual adventure games.
In short: If you're looking for an adventure game with puzzles and actual gameplay, skip this. But if you enjoyed stuff with minimal gameplay like "Dear Esther" or "To The Moon" you should give this a try.
In Gone Home, you simply wander around the house to uncover notes, diaries and various other stuff that are used to advance and tell the story. There is some voice acting but also a lot of notes you have to read yourself. That's it - no puzzles, if you don't consider some of the clues about a certain subplot to be puzzles.
The story itself, is great. It is a realistic real-life drama. All of it could very well happen in real life, and does happen. That's what makes it different from most of game stories. The storytelling is done very well and in a perfect pace. The voice acting is professional and a real pleasure to listen to.
Gone Home sucked me right in and I completed in one session. It is short, though, around 2 hours but still worth the price in my opinion.
I loved this game. I understand that many didn't, and I get why people didn't like it, but this game was incredible to me. I went into it knowing nothing with the exception that you've returned home and the place was empty. The whole time, I expected it to be a horror game and up until the last few seconds did I finally learn it wasn't. That ticked a ton of people off, but the fact that I had that feeling of dread the whole time, I loved it. This game is not for everyone, but if you are looking for something different and a neat way to uncover a story, then I would highly recommend it. I love the house layout, the constant storm, the 90's Nostalgia, the score, and the premise of going home again. It's just a beautiful experience.
Walrus Approved.
If you're the kind of person who hated "Boyhood" because "nothing happens, it's just a normal kid walking around", or who liked the James Bond movies before Daniel Craig showed up with his blonde hair and feelings; in short, if you have the emotional capacity of a styrofoam cup, "Gone Home" isn't for you.
Maybe that's me being a little unfair. I loved this game, but I'm knocking off a star anyway because, yeah, they really could have put in a few puzzles. It's less "interactive story" and more "a story you interact with" Once you've played through the thing once, you don't actually need to play it again - hence the "oh so clever" Let's Play where someone points out that you can blow through the thing in about 2 minutes if you know where you're going. But let's be honest: that's the video game equivalent of walking in on someone watching "The Sixth Sense" for the first time and shouting "BRUCE WILLIS IS DEAD." You're only doing it to show how clever you are, and it's ruining someone else's fun.
I'd say you missed the point, but I don't think you did. I think you like showing off that you missed the point, because you think it makes you look cool. "It's not a game." OK. Your definition of "game" is really, really limited. I'm not saying all the negative reviewers are all being "grr why there no shooting?" Nor am I calling you all homophobic. However, let's just say that this game gets a lot of haters all saying pretty much the same thing. You'd think, at some point, they'd figure out "hey, maybe this ain't my thing, but that's ok, maybe it's someone else's thing." But nope.
Look: if you think of it less like a "game" and more like a kind of "YA novel you get to walk around in," you'll love it. If you grew up in the '90s, you'll dig how they got the feel of the era right. If that doesn't sound like your kind of thing, don't download it. Not everything has to be tailor made just for you - there are plenty of games where you get to blow stuff up. Go play those.
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