Gone Home: Console Edition

 PlayStation 4
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4.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 493 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 143 out of 493
  2. Mixed: 115 out of 493
  3. Negative: 235 out of 493

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  1. FunkyGibbon
    Jul 9, 2016
    0
    This game spoilt my weekend - don't let it spoil yours! .............................................................................................
  2. pjh3000
    Feb 29, 2016
    0
    I want my money back. This is just a walking simulator. Based on the price they charge, it's a scam. There is literally no content for this game. You just walk around and click on stuff until you get bored.
  3. VagrantPeters
    Jan 12, 2016
    0
    I can't stress this enough - if you have never played this game - DON'T. It is possibly the highest rated piece of garbage ever released. The professional critics are dead wrong - under two hours of 'game play' which would be forgiveable if it was awesome, it however is an uneventful shi+ show. Seriously, watch a play through on you tube if you don't believe me. I do this as a publicI can't stress this enough - if you have never played this game - DON'T. It is possibly the highest rated piece of garbage ever released. The professional critics are dead wrong - under two hours of 'game play' which would be forgiveable if it was awesome, it however is an uneventful shi+ show. Seriously, watch a play through on you tube if you don't believe me. I do this as a public service - this game is trash.… Expand
  4. JackKasket
    Jul 10, 2016
    0
    This "game" is garbage. Do yourself a favor and spend an equal of zero dollars on it. It literally, and I mean this literally, takes 20 minutes to finish, and only reason it doesn't take 10 minutes is that the character walks so damn slow....

    Just... sigh... Horrible.
  5. jonojono
    May 12, 2016
    0
    Its a game disguising itself as a mystery and then telling a lesbian love story. Its 2 hours of listening to tapes of a girl falling in love with another girl. If you are an SJW or like dumb indie teen love stories then get it, but probably even you will be left dissapointed, since it explains absolutely nothing. Its like lost, lets put a bunch of weird things everywhere so it looksIts a game disguising itself as a mystery and then telling a lesbian love story. Its 2 hours of listening to tapes of a girl falling in love with another girl. If you are an SJW or like dumb indie teen love stories then get it, but probably even you will be left dissapointed, since it explains absolutely nothing. Its like lost, lets put a bunch of weird things everywhere so it looks interesting, but have no explanation for them. Bait and switch at its finest.… Expand
  6. Frosty1979
    Mar 11, 2016
    0
    This "game" is a joke. It's a short, uneventful walk through a house to get to know that your sister ran away with her lesbian lover. No idea why so called professional critics gave this high marks. Probably they think it would make people more accepting of homosexuality.

    Maybe it would work to some degree, if it would be for free. But no! They charge 20 Dollar for it and market it as    This "game" is a joke. It's a short, uneventful walk through a house to get to know that your sister ran away with her lesbian lover. No idea why so called professional critics gave this high marks. Probably they think it would make people more accepting of homosexuality.

    Maybe it would work to some degree, if it would be for free. But no! They charge 20 Dollar for it and market it as some kind of mystery adventure, Imho that's nothing but a scam.    … Expand
  7. seriimac
    Aug 4, 2016
    0
    Sooo fun was to check the developers commentary. It's like someone cooked a bread, and you eat that bread, and he begin to tell you at what market he bought the flour, who gives the bill, what he was wearing, the sun was shining, the music was electric, he eat at breakfast eggs, served on a blue plate with a scrath...

    and so on

    story is crap, gameplay is none, commentaries are genious
  8. fallouts
    Mar 27, 2016
    0
    How did this game get such high scores is beyond me for I saw nothing of value in this one hour walking simulator. There is no replay value either and the gameplay pretty much revolves around you looking at things and hearing background narration. Lame.
  9. broyds
    Jun 13, 2016
    0
    I played this game for about an hour after picking it up for free with PS Plus. This is not a game. It is not fun, there is no challenge there is absolutely nothing to it other than picking up things and looking at them. Open a drawer find a note, read it and move on. Find another note, read it and then move on. Repeat this process for the rest of the game and ta da you get a movingI played this game for about an hour after picking it up for free with PS Plus. This is not a game. It is not fun, there is no challenge there is absolutely nothing to it other than picking up things and looking at them. Open a drawer find a note, read it and move on. Find another note, read it and then move on. Repeat this process for the rest of the game and ta da you get a moving experience that you will never forget (EXTREME SARCASM, just in case you couldn't tell). I think it is absolutely ludicrous the amount of high praise that has gone into this sh*t (pardon my french, but this game deserves the use of bad language) from professional critics, don't let them tempt you into buying this non entity of a game it will waste your money! It is the most pointless thing I have ever had to play. How can anyone find any enjoyment out of walking around a house reading letters from made up people and even looking at empty bottles and boxes of empty tissues, no joke.

    Please avoid this utter rubbish!    … Expand
  10. wdiscourse
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    Total waste of money. Nothing but a walking simulator. Just walk around and click on stuff until you get tired and ask for your money back. Not worth it at any cost. If the game was free, it would cost too much. They should have a refund button on the main menu.
  11. eslave242
    Mar 15, 2016
    0
    There's no way this game is worth money. It's just a walking simulator. Do not pay money for this game. There's no gameplay, no action, no entertainment value at all. Just boring boredom.
  12. everythingsucks
    Jun 3, 2016
    0
    this "game" seems to be a result of SJWs absurd demands actually being met. if you're old enough to remember "choose your adventure" books - well, apparently, those were games.

    basically, there gameplay is.... reading. the plot is as stereotypically SJW as possible - and for added irony, i guess the riot grrl movement just wasn't feminist/feminazi enough... so they had to add    this "game" seems to be a result of SJWs absurd demands actually being met. if you're old enough to remember "choose your adventure" books - well, apparently, those were games.

    basically, there gameplay is.... reading. the plot is as stereotypically SJW as possible - and for added irony, i guess the riot grrl movement just wasn't feminist/feminazi enough... so they had to add "patriarchy" nonsense to it. yay.

    if you're reading this, you're playing a game, too. because games are just words now.    … Expand
  13. khwwalnw
    Apr 10, 2016
    0
    Less than one hour of "game play". Well there's actually no game play, but it's less than an hour until you get to the end of this walking simulator. Look, they just want your money to spend on patreon.
  14. goobergaber
    Apr 11, 2016
    0
    This isn't actually a game. It's more like a visual novel. You walk around and find things to read. That's it. No gameplay, no mobs, no weapons, no score, nothing.
  15. TheMule
    Jun 9, 2016
    0
    Played through the game, Got stuck in a few corners and had to reload. The main character walks around a house interacting with things that have no bearing on anything,...like soda cans, pencils, cups and other such things. Elements in the game that needed explaining weren't, like things you find in the hidden areas, you will see what I mean. I figured the game was going to be involvingPlayed through the game, Got stuck in a few corners and had to reload. The main character walks around a house interacting with things that have no bearing on anything,...like soda cans, pencils, cups and other such things. Elements in the game that needed explaining weren't, like things you find in the hidden areas, you will see what I mean. I figured the game was going to be involving solving some kind of mystery as to why there was no one home and that her sister was missing due to supernatural causes. I was looking forward to seeing some shocking ghost images of some kind...none were forthcoming.

    What seems like a clone of the point an click games on a PC turns into a huge letdown for fans of that genre so it loses points for trying to be something it is not and loses points for the many bugs I found in the game after only minutes of playing it. Loses points for incomplete story line and the extremely high price tag (if you actually pay money for it, since it is free on PS4 right now). Even with it being a free download at this time...I still felt ripped off for my time.

    Personally don't care about the lesbian innuendos or the SJW feel to the entire game...it was crap even before I started figuring out that it was either of those things.    … Expand
  16. Prrgangsta
    Jun 9, 2016
    0
    Do you enjoy linear games? Do you like plots with little to no climax? Do you like WALKING through an empty house with 0 ability to run while listening to your lesbian sister's voice inside your head after picking up certain notes?No! Me neither.
  17. relnigar
    Jun 10, 2016
    0
    Terrible story mixed with a dull atmosphere, if you hate Young Adult fiction and all it stands for then you will likely hate this. The writing is insipid, the gameplay non-existent; flash games are far better and more immersive, and the price is a joke. Avoid at all costs, the hype around it is very artificial and 'art' it is not.
  18. Fishnpeas
    Jun 11, 2016
    0
    Tonight, on a very special blossom.
    This is not a game, this is not even narrative, I have no idea what this is - I mean what was the whole point of it? The main character just sounds like a complete empty head - this is supposed to be highlighting what to me as a gamer? That I can be fleeced? I actually had to create an account on here simply to vent my utter disgust at "professional"    Tonight, on a very special blossom.
    This is not a game, this is not even narrative, I have no idea what this is - I mean what was the whole point of it? The main character just sounds like a complete empty head - this is supposed to be highlighting what to me as a gamer? That I can be fleeced? I actually had to create an account on here simply to vent my utter disgust at "professional" reviewers giving this thing anything above a 4. You should genuinely be ashamed of yourselves. There should be new categories for things like this so they are not listed on the game section of stores, because that is simply false advertising. And the amount of people saying "go play cod if you don't like it" also need a slap because if you class this as anything even resembling a game you should be slapped vigorously.    … Expand
  19. Nathan1423
    Jun 12, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beyond disappointed. This game is nothing it appears to be. It's a lesbian love story. That's it. I'm 100% for the slightly modern idea of making weird games with cool graphics that are more of "an experience" than a game, and this "game" tries to achieve that, but it fails horribly. My first gripe was the fact that there are well over 100 items to pick up and look at that do absolutely nothing, like plain cups or pencils. Not only is this a game where literally all you can do is pick stuff up and walk around, so the stuff you pick up should be useful half the time, but also why on earth did the developers go through the effort of including so much worthless crap? You can open the dishwasher....to look at dishes...and pick some up...and that's all....it's so stupid.
    My second gripe was that the story revealed through notes, letters, audio logs, and so forth is terribly uninteresting. teenage forbidden lesbian romance, an old house that used to have some shady guy living there who liked hidden passages, but the end result is nothing. The house is not haunted, there's not some creepy torture chamber in the basement, there's not a dead body, there isn't some dark secret, there's....nothing. Everywhere you go the whole experience revolves around your rebellious sister Sam and her lesbian lover Lonnie, even when you find cool hidden passages, nope, nothing interesting, just where same and Lonnie would hide out and post teenage crap on the walls. By the end i just wanted it to be over already. The last room in the attic I walked straight to the end and picked up the last journal entry and the game was over with a brief audio log. I'm sure there were a few things in that room I didn't look at that maybe explained a few things, but i guarantee it didn't explain everything. I'm sick of modern story writers not writing a complete story and then being like "oh it's interpretive, you figure it out, you decide what happened." That's garbage. Finish your crappy story. Sooo many times in the game I ended up saying things like "Why? Why is this here? What would they do this?" The majority of questions are left unanswered, and all your left with is a lesbian love story. I honestly feel bad for people who paid for this game, mine was free from PSN. Voice acting, visuals, and controls were all fine, which makes it a shame that there's no story worth experiencing.    … Expand
  20. User3
    Jul 27, 2017
    0
    Why do critics like this game? It shows the divide between people who play games and people who review them. Gamers want gameplay, reviewers want pandering to their politics.
  21. avelen
    Jun 22, 2016
    0
    This game is **** I must say. HATE IT, REGRET PLAYING IT, AND IT'S WASTE OF TIME. I hate the puzzles in it there are no fun and the story is boring and **** i bet everyone who played it said the same thing so don't judge. but the graphics are cool.
  22. lucasbiagini
    Jun 26, 2016
    0
    Considering you are lucky to find the game evidences and follow the story following the correct time line and you actually enjoy reading irrelevant texts, than that is your game. Otherwise, just not.
  23. evilfrog
    Jul 5, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. a boring walking simulator about a lesbian. wast of time and money. you are seeing everything in first person view , walking around a boring house clicking on stuff and sometimes hearing some bits of boring story.don't play it even for free. don't encourage such **** games to be made.… Expand
  24. thehap06
    Jul 5, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I never thought it could get worse than Twilight...boy was I wrong.

    I kept playing cause it had a horror game vibe thinking monsters were going to pop out any second but nope, you just walk around and the protagonist relives her relationship with her lesbian girlfriend, sister, and parents by finding old notes they wrote to each other around the house.

    SPOILERS BELOW!!!!! (Honestly reading below this line will save you a lot of time and money):

    The climax: Your lesbian girlfriend can't hang out with you for your High School Graduation because she joined the army and will be leaving for a post.
    The Ending: Lesbian girlfriend can't bear to leave you and drops out of army to stay with you.

    Entire story is narrated by the protagonist as she finds notes that remind her of what happened.

    At least I got it for free through Playstation plus I feel bad for people that actually paid for it.    … Expand
  25. KoastalKhaos
    Jul 29, 2016
    0
    This is by far the worst "game" I have ever played. To think that Polygon gave this garbage their Game of the Year Award over the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us, or Tomb Raider is insane. There is now way to fail at this walking simulator. There is not even really a goal, though they want you to think there is. You can literally beat the game in under a minute. Horrible. IThis is by far the worst "game" I have ever played. To think that Polygon gave this garbage their Game of the Year Award over the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us, or Tomb Raider is insane. There is now way to fail at this walking simulator. There is not even really a goal, though they want you to think there is. You can literally beat the game in under a minute. Horrible. I would call it an interactive story but there is no need for interaction other than opening doors and looking at notes that poorly try to strike up a good storyline. This game got praised because the gaming journalists tried to push an agenda. Calling it the GOTY destroys their credibility. Look up reviews on Youtube. At least they are by unbiased people who aren't friends with the developers like most of these gaming websites are. *SPOILER*:
    You come home to an empty house. As you try to piece together where everyone went, you find out about 20 minutes in that your sister has come out as being a lesbian. In the end, you find out that she has ran away with her lover and your parents are on a couple's retreat. DUMB.

    If the sister ran away with a boy, would it receive such high praise? Absolutely not. This game is trying to drill an agenda and fails horribly at it.    … Expand
  26. Seaoflogic
    Aug 25, 2016
    0
    Probably the most boring "game" i have ever played. Reading boring notes, with a boring story in a boring house. Yay. Wouldn't have wished this "game" on my worst enemy. I even created an account just to put another warning out there of how bad this walking simulator is.
  27. sierick
    Jan 9, 2017
    0
    Wow the only reason this "game" gets any good reviews is because it is a Lesbian Love story. It is not a game, it is awful. Super boring, just clicking on things. Talk about Bias in the "Mainstream" media. 000
  28. Rykki
    Mar 28, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Shame on the makers of this game for lying about the premise to push an agenda. This "game" has all the trappings of a horror/exploration game. It couldn't be further from the truth. You are coming home after a European trip, and everyone leaves just before you get there? Your family is a bunch of selfish jerks. And the whole point of the "game" is your sister is a lesbian, that ran away to be with her partner. Welcome home.… Expand
  29. Abandoneduser63
    Aug 10, 2017
    0
    Yet another useless PS Plus freebie I downloaded to see what the hype was about. I am so disappointed at all the clearly false positive reviews. Especially since Slender was a better walking simulator compared to this.
  30. Beckasha
    Jan 4, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They hint horror and give you nothing. The ending sees your gay sister run off with her military deserter girlfriend. No murder. No ghosts. Nothing they hinted at. If she had ran off with a boy, it wouldnt have such a high critical score. They just didnt want to say anything bad about the game. Pandering. It certainly didnt deserve goty. By far the worst game I have ever played and coming from me, someone who has been gaming since 1986, that says a lot.… Expand
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#27 Best PS4 Game of 2016
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#31 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2016
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#35 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2016

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Gameblog.fr
    Apr 21, 2016
    80
    Gone home is a beautiful story told with talent. The total immersion and storytelling brings a sense of renewal in the world of video games. Unfortunately, its lifespan is too short: two hours are enough to see the end. This console port is, by the way, excellent.
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  2. GameSpew
    Apr 9, 2016
    60
    It’s a shame that Gone Home is a bit of a non-starter. It has a lot of potential; the game is genuinely captivating whilst you’re playing it – it’s just unfortunate that it leaves you so disappointed once you’ve reached its conclusion. The human story it tries to tell is relatable, but it’s a story that’s so ordinary it’s barely even worth telling. By all means, play Gone Home for the exploration; for the 90’s nostalgia and for its down-to-Earth quirks, but don’t go into it expecting anything mindblowing. Expect a grounded story about a typical family and you won’t be disappointed, but anything else will leave you feeling rather underwhelmed.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Mar 31, 2016
    70
    Don’t look at its brevity with a frown: Gone Home is a hugely important game with something meaningful to say. [April 2016, p74]
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