Everybody loves a good mystery and thankfully, theres no real mystery quite like Gone Home. Kaitlyn comes home to a new mansion your family came into, only to find a note from your sister on the front door saying not to look for answers. No one is home; its just you exploring a big mansion, and not the kind youd find in Resident Evil. Gone Home is a brilliant game for so many reasons, yet you cant actually talk about any of them without ruining the story and in this game narrative by basic exploration is everything- so I do implore you to stop reading at this point if you havent experienced this Indie gem, and to just go play it. For starters, the game constantly leads you on a path that danger is afoot and that sinister things happened in the mansion, when its seriously just a straightforward story of young lesbians in love dealing with hardships. Youre constantly led to believe that something horrible happened to them and the family. But why? Its easy; video games by nature are either violent, have you battling evil, or interacting with a villain in any way conceivable. Even the very idea of beating a video game comes from tackling and defeating the final boss whether its something cartoonish like Mario or laced with blood like God of War. Especially more so nowadays, were expecting bad things to happen because thats the precedent the industry set for itself. This is a constant reoccurring theme throughout Gone Home too, whether youre coming across strange occult relics Sam and Lonnie were messing around with, or blood in the bathtub that you find out two seconds later is just nail polish. Its also a realistically written game that maturely explores young lesbian love, which is astonishing considering the sexist laced stigma of the industry in the past. Its a game where you explore a house for 90 minutes to uncover secrets, yet its one of 2013s proudest achievements. Best Moment- Its incredibly relieving when you discover that nothing evil at all happened, and that Sam and Lonnie ran away and that the parents were just on vacation. Absolutely amazing storytelling and writing.
