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    Gone Home

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Aug 15, 2013

    Set in a large multi-story house during a 1995 thunderstorm, Gone Home is a first-person exploration game where a young woman finds out what happened to her family since she was away on a long overseas trip.

    disen's Gone Home (Steam) (PC) review

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    • disen has written a total of 14 reviews. The last one was for Rogue Legacy

    A reverse bell curve of enjoyment.

    The simplest way I could define my experience in Gone Home is that it has a great intro and an even better ending. Great atmosphere. If feminism offends you, there will be plenty of /cringe moments. Definitely recommend playing it if you're into adventure, story-driven games.

    Other reviews for Gone Home (Steam) (PC)

      A True Interactive Story 0

      There is a piece of paper on a cabinet. You read it, it reveals itself to be an exam from days gone by. The exam has one question, a simple biology task: re-arrange these sentences to form a coherent story about the reproductive cycle. The answer is nothing of the sort. It’s long, a full two page story with character, excitement and passion. It is the writing of a child, so you’d be hard pressed to call it good, but the cheek of it makes you smile. It makes you laugh.Underneath there is a teache...

      11 out of 14 found this review helpful.

      It's an oddly compelling story, with not much gameplay and some great atmosphere at times 0

      What constitutes as a game? In 'Gone Home', you can walk around and click on things but are these controls just an afterthought to a story the developer wanted to tell? Why, in this medium, is it important to tell this story? I suspect that indie games are the new 'cool' thing, so maybe this was a way to cash in on a growing niche market as well as a massive social debate. The lone gameplay mechanic this game has which I wish other games would adopt is the ability to put an item back in the same...

      7 out of 11 found this review helpful.

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