Three Fourths Home

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User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 20
  3. Negative: 5 out of 20

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  1. fartheststar
    Oct 1, 2014
    5
    Three fourths home is a story based game. It's storming, and you are driving your car through the Nebraska landscape on the way home while having a conversation on the cell phone w/ your parents and brother (conversation in text on the screen). As you drive through the storm you get to know the family's problems and perhaps identify w/ a young adult who's trying to strike out in life forThree fourths home is a story based game. It's storming, and you are driving your car through the Nebraska landscape on the way home while having a conversation on the cell phone w/ your parents and brother (conversation in text on the screen). As you drive through the storm you get to know the family's problems and perhaps identify w/ a young adult who's trying to strike out in life for the first time. Note, this is not a game as much as it is a multimedia presentation w/ a few user interface controls. It's a good story, the art design is nice, and the visuals and sounds create a nice atmosphere, but there's not a lot beyond that. If this story appeals to you go for it, but understand there's not really gameplay as much as reading the story and watching how the visuals interact w/ the story that's happening. It's targeted to a specific audience. I was curious about the title, and thought it was well done, but at the same time it won't leave me thinking about it after I've seen it. Overall a mixed review, but again if you're curious about it it's a good experience for what it is.… Expand
  2. PublicNuisance
    Mar 28, 2020
    7
    Three Fourths Home is a pretty unique visual novel. It revolves around a woman who is having a phone conservation with their family while driving home during a tornado warning. You have to use the arrow key to drive and the conservation stops when you stop driving so you have to keep moving as well as choosing responses. You start to get a sense of why she was out wondering around oldThree Fourths Home is a pretty unique visual novel. It revolves around a woman who is having a phone conservation with their family while driving home during a tornado warning. You have to use the arrow key to drive and the conservation stops when you stop driving so you have to keep moving as well as choosing responses. You start to get a sense of why she was out wondering around old family property and what issues the family is going through. The dialogue is some of the best I have seen in a visual novel and the background story is well done. The atmosphere of rain and tornado sirens going off while driving really set a good mood. The soundtrack over the credits was also well matched. There were some dialogue choices that were in brackets and I couldn’t tell if they were supposed to be an inner monologue; sarcasm; or something else. They still got a response from whoever I was talking to so I don’t think inner monologue fit but the responses were always hostile or prompted a negative response. It didn’t seem to fit with the other parts of the conservation. There is an epilogue to play when done with the main game but it wasn’t as well done as the main game. It sheds light on some of the main characters life issues but just failed to hold my interest as much. The text was pretty hard to read at first but luckily I noticed that there was an option to switch to a more bold font which solved that issue for me.

    I played Three Fourths Home on Linux. It never crashed on me. It uses the Unity engine. There is one graphics setting as well as an AA toggle. The games used up 2334MB of disk space. I didn’t notice any spelling errors. There is a manual save option you can use at any time but there is only one save slot so you will overwrite the save each time. Alt-Tab didn’t work.

    VRAM Used: 802-971MB
    CPU Usage: 1-4%
    RAM Usage: 2.8-2.9GB

    Overall I would recommend the game to fans of visual novels. It tries to set itself apart in terms of content and game play and succeeds. It’s warts are minor and didn’t hurt the experience. I paid $2.33 CAD for the game and it was well worth it for that. The full price of $5.49 CAD is also a decent fit for it although that’s about the maximum I would pay. I finished the main game and epilogue in 58 minutes.

    My Score: 7/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 5700 XT 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.3.5 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 19.0.2 | Mate 1.24 | Kernel 5.5.13-1-MANJARO    … Expand
  3. aditya1101
    Oct 5, 2017
    2
    Cool idea and it's fairly well written, but overall it just doesn't have enough content to deserve a higher rating. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. IGN Italia
    Jul 6, 2015
    85
    A great example of interactive fiction, beautifully written, with interesting themes and some pretty evocative graphics.
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  2. Game Rant
    Apr 28, 2015
    70
    If story and interactive fiction interest you, and if you like musing on regret and memory and family, you’ll find something to like in Three Fourths Home.
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  3. Kill Screen
    Apr 13, 2015
    71
    In spite of its problems, Three Fourths Home still showcases some pretty sharp dialogue and storytelling. And if nothing else, it will make you think twice about how you conduct yourself the next time you’re on the phone with your mom.
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