I'm not sure this should be called a game, it's more of a visual novel (no, not comics). I initially went into this thinking it was a horror game. I later realized Gone Home is nothing more than a visual novel. Which I thought was interesting, but I'd only play it once. What really held my attention the most was nostalgia. Hearing and seeing many things representing the 90's was great. However, this is where most of my interest in the visual novel was. The story, I thought, was average and predictable, with too much focus on one character - the sister. I would have liked to enjoy hearing some dialogue from the parents, even the main character - especially to comment on things seen in the environment. I think I would have liked to have seen Gone Home as a choose your own adventure game - in which some choices or objects would affect the outcome of the story. Gone Home gets the three stars from me for the nostalgia factor. The environment is pleasing to look at and well designed I think (though it may look different to me because I thought it was a horror game, at first). Actually, I think it could have been a pretty good horror game. One without the presence of some killer, or demon who is hunting you. Because I thought it was a horror game I was always fearing the sister's fate. As a horror game, or rather visual novel Gone Home might have succeeded, but as it is it's just a three dimensional, digital book. I would recommend Gone Home, only, if you want to read a book without actually reading.
