Gone Home (2013)
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.
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Gone Home belongs to 8 collections
1. video games considered artistic (public: moderated by Veterini - 5 stars)
2. Was free on Epic Games Store (public: moderated by Veterini - 3 stars)
3. Art games (public: moderated by Veterini - 2 stars)
4. Female protagonist (public: moderated by Veterini - 1 star)
5. Giant Bomb GOTY 2010-2019 (public: moderated by caffe)
6. 2013 Independent Games Festival Finalists & Winners ? (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
7. Walking simulators (public: moderated by Veterini)
8. Short game (public: moderated by Veterini)
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| Jun 10 |  |
gameveryday | 60 1% |
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"that's it?!" twist
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| Dec 28, 2020 |  |
Ununnilium | 92 91% |
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This is the game that showed me how to tell stories just thru exploration. There are multiple personal tales in this house, and it's perfectly set up to let you explore them at your own pace, building up to cathartic, bittersweet revelations. It feels real in the right ways, and heightened and exaggerated in the right ways. Gosh I enjoyed it.
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| Dec 08, 2019 |  |
MonsHedge | 5 1% |
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Treats homosexuality as a horror movie jumpscare and then won a bunch of awards for it. A lesson in why you should shove hipsters into lockers and give them swirlies.
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| Nov 27, 2019 |  |
lisa- | 3 14% |
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"indie game" is generally a much broader descriptor than "indie film", but this is exactly the sort of game you'd expect from the latter phrase. fairly empty and dull.
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| Oct 23, 2018 | vv238 | 46 27% |
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As an interactive museum its quite fine. It just never really develops a good tone which might have made this slightly more memorable.
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| Jul 15, 2018 |  |
NothingsGood | 95 91% |
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The single most impressive execution of interactive entertainment. I've never been more profoundly enveloped by exploring environments than in this game.
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| Jul 11, 2018 |  |
shoegays | 90 95% |
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Brilliantly written and with inspired voice work.
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| Apr 19, 2018 |  |
Filligan | 79 25% |
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I appreciate games that try to pull the same kind of emotional punches as other art forms. It's kind of about time -- nobody should be surprised about these games becoming the hot new critical darlings. I also appreciate that this one utilizes horror game cliches to subvert expectations.
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| Feb 12, 2018 |  |
DavidBlast | 50 30% |
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Not much of a game, but more of an okay story, told through letters, diaries and tape recorders found around the house that you're investigating. Not the most earth shattering experience, but if you want to pass the time with a little indie title, this will probably do nicely.
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| Jan 28, 2018 | SamuraiPaul | 94 79% |
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Good walking simulators can get away with not having invert-x.
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| Jan 16, 2018 |  |
philamental | 72 28% |
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The atmosphere presented in this short exploration game is brilliant intense at times. I won't discuss too many details but there is a decent mystery to unravel here as you slowly uncover each additional clue. Definitely not for everyone, but for some it will be a memorable experience.
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| Jan 16, 2018 |  |
JSchlansky | 67 64% |
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A sweet simple story, don't know if this really needed to be a game.
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| Jan 15, 2018 |  |
hellboy76 | 78 59% |
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It was sad and sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.
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| Jan 13, 2018 |  |
Obdurate | 90 86% |
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I came to this a few years later after hearing all of the hype and it does live up to it. Presented as a horror game, from the talk about ghosts to the dread in the atmosphere, it's really not that, unless you look at it metaphorically, like coming out of the closet is a terror in itself. It's the walking simulator done right.
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| Average Percentile 38.9% from 229 Ratings |  |