Gone Home

SPOILERS!! To be quite honest, this game was very boring to play. There wasn't much going on the entire time. When first starting the game, it seemed as if it would be a horror game. Turns out it's literally just a game made about a girl "coming out." In the summary of the game it quite literally says "Something's not right. Where is everyone. And what's happened here?" It makes it sound more interesting than it is. The main character's parents were just gone for the weekend, and her little sister ran off with a girl she was romantically interested in. Don't recommend unless you want a game to play before bed to make you tired.

Waking sim where you pick stuff up, kind of a mid reveal to the mystery

O trabalho de environmental art aqui é genial. O jogo ambienta-se nos anos 90 em pequenos detalhes que parecem banais, mas carregam uma força absurda. Encontrar, por exemplo, um ingresso de cinema jogado no sofá, datado de poucos dias atrás, anunciando Pulp Fiction (um dos meus filmes favoritos), foi apenas um dos momentos marcantes que eu vivi no jogo. Para quem cresceu nessa década, esse jogo vai evocar muita nostalgia. Para quem não cresceu, ainda assim funciona — porque fala de questões contemporâneas como conflitos familiares, vínculos emocionais confusos e a dificuldade de se sentir compreendido. Tudo isso sem excessos, sem didatismo. Apenas deixando você observar, sentir e juntar as peças. A trilha sonora é precisa e sensível, guiando cada momento com delicadeza. O som constante da chuva — quase um ASMR — cria uma atmosfera íntima e contemplativa, que te envolve do início ao fim. Conforme você avança, a história ganha camadas, profundidade e cor. É o tipo de narrativa que se instala devagar, mas vai te intrigando a ponto de virar uma obsessão. Uma daquelas que você sabe, com certeza, que jamais vai esquecer. A escolha de uma protagonista adolescente vivendo seu primeiro amor sáfico também me tocou profundamente. Há algo de muito honesto e melancólico nessa vulnerabilidade silenciosa que torna tudo ainda mais humano. Quando finalizei e os créditos começaram a subir, chorei, foi inevitável. Falando de questões práticas; o preço é justo. Em uma primeira experiência, o jogo dura cerca de duas horas. Mas, se você se conectar de verdade e decidir buscar os troféus, a imersão se aprofunda de forma ainda mais significativa. É um jogo curto, sim — mas algumas experiencias não precisam de longas horas para marcar. Recomendo muito!

Arrive home after a long trip and slowly uncover the story of your family as you explore the house and read notes.

A nice game I can't really explain without spoilers but the game itself does a great job of encouraging replayability and it's just a good story.

This is one of the most beautiful, real, poignant, intelligent, human, and[i] attentive [/i]games I've ever played. It has a degree of profound interest in the mundane ephemera of life that I've simply never seen a video game have before. All you do in Gone Home is walk around and look at stuff, and lemme tell ya, I was HOOKED. That's saying something, because I'm someone that spends most of his game time on adrenaline-fueled esports titles like Rocket League and Valorant. I played it all in one session, and was at the very verge of crying copious amounts of manly man-tears by the end. The fact that it manages to be [i]this[/i] compelling, while being composed exclusively of gameplay elements that are normally considered filler — picking up notes, listening to 'audio logs' — renders it nothing short of a masterwork, from a design perspective. I am deeply grateful to all of the idiots on the internet that produced Discourse™ about this game (almost certainly without actually having played it). I likely wouldn't have ever heard of it, or gotten around to experiencing it, otherwise.

I liked this one a lot. What a cute game with a compelling story and a great method for discovery. There's nothing earth shattering here, it's 1995 and Katie comes home from a year abroad to an empty house - your mom, dad, and sister are all gone and you're trying to figure out where they went and why. The game mechanics are simple - you walk around, you pick things up, you can crouch. But that's all you really need for this one. The game opens up the house in interesting and engaging ways. It uses mechanics like crouching and opening up boxes to help you discover family secrets. And periodically you hear voiceovers after interacting with certain objects. Through such simple mechanics, the game takes you on a journey of discovery that never felt boring or uninteresting. Thinking about when this game came out (2013) and when it is set (1995) and being someone who was alive for both of those times, the themes feel so real. The character's fears and reactions make sense from those worlds, unfortunately. And the place where everyone ends up, the reason no one is home, all comes together into a concise, well told story that feels both heart breaking and beautiful. I definitely recommend this one. it's short, but fun. If you are a reader, who loves a good book. If you are a movie lover, who enjoys weird indie flicks. If you simply like good stories. Then you are going to enjoy this game.

Reminder that this is NOT a horror game!! Do not expect any big jumpscares/crazy actions or sequences. It's a game about going home and exploring all the rooms, secret places, etc. So don't play this expecting it to be super action packed, instead it's a pretty calm and mysterious game and throughout exploring you will definitely be putting the hints and stories together in order to come up with your own guesses as to why the house is empty. It's a great story, definitely lots of things to discover.