Home is a uniquely told story where your simple decisions affect how the plot of the game unfolds...or it seems. We start with our nameless protagonist in an unknown house in the middle of the night with no memories how or why he got there. The story gets more interesting when he finds a dead body in the next room.

The most engaging aspects of this game are how the story is told and the atmosphere. First, the story is never complete. As you make your way from the house to your home you can find clues about the events that have happened and piece together the murders. How much you find and how much you progress in being 'Sherlock' is completely up to the player. This ambiguity is the most sparkling and the most trembling part of the game at the same time. The conclusion of the game will vary based on what you discovered and what choices you have made throughout the game. This undoubtedly will leave many frustrated and with a lot of questions after finishing the game. In this case a replay of the game is needed, but unfortunately it might not bring the resolutions players want to see.

While the graphics and the music (there is no music) aren't the strongest parts of the game, the atmosphere is. It is highly recommended to play this game in one sitting, at night, with headphones on. The crackling wood, loud thunders, footsteps with the visuals will pull the player in searching for answers. You will never be frightened, but you will always be wondering: "what's in this next room?"

Home is a very special meta-game, where its uniqueness derive from not what's happening on screen, but what is in the mind of the player. The story of the game might not get complete after several playthrough, because the events of the game have already happened, the murders too. It is not really important what happened, the important thing is how much you know about it and the ultimate goal is to know everything of course.

Rating: 72/100; Replay Value: 4/5; To Beat: 1-1.5 hours; Played on: -

I got Home on sale for just a couple of bucks and played through it once and was not intrigued. I understood the concept: based on what you think the clues mean will determine the outcome of the story. I was not impressed with the writing and I was not spooked out by any of the descriptions or depictions. Contrasting this game to one I remember playing in the 80s on the Amiga called Uninvited, I'm still freaked out by it when I give it a whirl on an emulator. I give the developer kudos for trying, but the play through did not persuade me enough to try it a second time to see if I could change up the outcome.

The very first time I played Home I didn't like, but the thing was I thought that was because I just wasn't the kind of person who would understand it. But a week ago I looked back on my experience with Home. I thought to myself "Hey, I'm little smarter and more open-minded then I used to be, mabye I'll try looking back at the game."

Long story short, after some brainstorming I still don't like this game. So let me go over the genres Home tries to be, but doesn't come near to.

First off, Home calls itself a horror game. This could be true if they actually had something scary happen. Don't get me wrong, the enviroments are great and creepy enough, but all of that doesn't matter when you relize Home doesn't throw anything at you. Sure it probebly doesn't have to to be a horror game. But when I got spooked up by the things I saw, but soon relized that nothing could happen to me, I was just dissapointed.

Also Home tries is best to be a mystery game, but it flops at this too. The plot of Home is that you play as a man who wakes up with amnesia and finds a dead body in the house he wakes up in, and now you have to try and figure out what happened. This is a nice set up, but you don't actually do any mystery solving in the game. All you do is walk around, solve a "puzzle" or two and that's it. You do uncover a few things relating to the man's past (which is probebly the best part of the game) but none of this really helps you figure out what happpened.

And I'm not done yet. Another reason why Home fails to be a mystery, is because you choose the ending. Sure this works well in games like "The Stanely Parable" (love that game) but that isn't a myster game! Since you're supposed to be solving the mystery, it just takes away that expierence. Since you just pick out what happened, it feels like a crossword where you have to make up the answers instead of having fun trying to figure it out yourself from the questions they give you. And that takes away a lot of the "fun" in Home.

Basecily all you need to know about the story of Home is that you find some dead bodies, and the developers try to pass that as a game.

Successfully atmospheric, but I felt like I wasted 90 minutes by the time I finished it though. Nothing really "happens".

GET. THIS. GAME. Especially on sale. You will buy silly little apps for your phone that you will use once and never turn on again that will cost more than this and give you NOTHING. This game must be played with headphones on, at night, when you know you won't be disturbed.

It's brief, but somehow that plays right into the charm. This adventure will make you feel like you've been sitting at your desk for hours, and it's only been 30 minutes. You're never sure what's lurking behind the next door, but you know you'll never like it, and you will usually be right. The atmosphere is amazing. The sound is perfect. The story is devastating. No two people who play it will interpret it the same way, and that's just fine. You can discover 50% or 100% of the paths, and it will not detract from how the game is played at all. So satisfying, so discombobulating was this game that after I finished it in one sitting, I've not opened it since.

It's not bloody, and it doesn't use cheap scare tactics. But it thrills you just the same, just like if someone tells you Slenderman is standing behind you. You know he isn't. You'll look anyways.