Fullbright's successor to Gone Home succeeds not by rehashing Gone Home's intimate and personal storytelling, but by expanding the voyeuristic environmental storytelling into a wider cast of engaging characters. A journey that explores compelling, charming characters culminates with a thrilling ending and leaves you with a sense of triumph more than Gone Home's passive discoveries. Make no mistake, Tacoma is still the same genre of gameplay, you won't be affecting the outcomes with decisions, but your explorations of the spaces and texts and dialog feel more alive with this game's more active interactions. And while this is no headscratching puzzler, some mild keycodes and locks to find keys for do help round out the exploratory feel of the space station Tacoma. And the art of the game is a step up from its predecessor, with the little details that made Gone Home so charming magnified into a hundred more. If you liked Gone Home, you'll like Tacoma. Like it's predecessor, Tacoma is not a long game, but don't let that dissuade you from enjoying its storytelling. Take a few hours, explore this space station and what it tells you about its previous occupants and their lives and the world they live in, it's well worth your while, I promise. And don't forget to find all the space cats!
Fullbright's successor to Gone Home succeeds not by rehashing Gone Home's intimate and personal storytelling, but by expanding the voyeuristic environmental storytelling into a wider cast of engaging characters. A journey that explores compelling, charming characters culminates with a thrilling ending and leaves you with a sense of triumph more than Gone Home's passive discoveries. Make no mistake, Tacoma is still the same genre of gameplay, you won't be affecting the outcomes with decisions, but your explorations of the spaces and texts and dialog feel more alive with this game's more active interactions. And while this is no headscratching puzzler, some mild keycodes and locks to find keys for do help round out the exploratory feel of the space station Tacoma. And the art of the game is a step up from its predecessor, with the little details that made Gone Home so charming magnified into a hundred more. If you liked Gone Home, you'll like Tacoma. Like it's predecessor, Tacoma is not a long game, but don't let that dissuade you from enjoying its storytelling. Take a few hours, explore this space station and what it tells you about its previous occupants and their lives and the world they live in, it's well worth your while, I promise. And don't forget to find all the space cats!
