Gone Home was a walking simulator with an interesting personal story to make up for the lack of any meaningful game interaction. It benefited greatly from focusing on a fully fleshed out personal story. This is not that game. It is another walking simulator with a story contrived of common science fiction tropes with no true personal connections. Like Gone Home you get glimpses of personal lives of various people but unlike Gone Home there is nothing compelling enough to make you truly connect or care to any of the characters. I appreciate the devs and encourage them to continue their work and testing/expanding the medium but on this one it feels like they attempted to replicate the success of the original while abandoning what truly made it special. It attempts to cover the personal stories of 6 times the characters in the same amount of time. Through an interesting concept of replaying recorded past events it expands the potential of story interaction but the payoff of that mechanic is disappointing at best. I'd give it a pass.
