10 Touching Video Game Moments You Probably Missed

7. Discovering The Hair Dye - Gone Home

Gone Home is one of the finest examples yet of the first-person exploration genre, as you snoop around your family home in the 90s one stormy night, while everyone else is away. It's a masterclass of environmental storytelling as you pick up journals, random objects and other personal tidbits to find out about your family's lives and secrets - particularly those of your younger sister Samantha. Gone Home sparingly uses certain horror tropes to sublime effect, weaving in a feeling of slight unease amidst the touching snippets of story. This is beautifully demonstrated when you go into a bathroom to find a bathtub ominously filled with water and some red splatters around it. You automatically think the worst, as you do many times throughout the game, before you pick up a spray canister lying next to the bathtub.You rotate it and read that it's a can of red hair dye. The game fooled you, you breathe a sigh of relief, then listen to your sister's voice as she explains the significance of the can in her burgeoning relationship with another girl at school. The monologue is beautifully delivered, and completes a clever little emotional helter-skelter that takes you from dread, to amusement, to a pleasant soul-warming feeling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS5eQmRgBlY