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Games Like Home is Where One Starts...
May 12, 2015·78% positive·
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Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Best games like Home is Where One Starts...
The best games like Home is Where One Starts... are Gone Home, Home, Homesick, The First Tree, and As Long As You're Here. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 78% positive across 562 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $2.99 pricing signal.
- Gone Home - Gone Home is closely similar to Home is Where One Starts... because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Indie, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Home - Home is closely similar to Home is Where One Starts... because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Indie, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Homesick - Homesick is closely similar to Home is Where One Starts... because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Indie, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- The First Tree - The First Tree is closely similar to Home is Where One Starts... because both games are made by David Wehle, and both are Indie and Adventure games, and fit the same cozy/farming and co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- As Long As You're Here - As Long As You're Here is closely similar to Home is Where One Starts... because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Indie, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
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“I remember when I was a little girl, waiting at the end of my driveway. I had already missed the school bus, but I stood there anyway… envying the birds.” Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s an experience where every object has been carefully placed to tell a poignant story—a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South. Exploring the lonely countryside reveals clues and vignettes which help the player answer the question of where home is—and how one can get there.
Key features
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A quiet, non-linear story told by the future self of a reflective narrator
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Inspired by the rural countryside and stories like John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
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A 15-30 minute experience that can be completed in one sitting
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An experience that focuses on atmosphere rather than action or puzzles
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A rich, detailed environment that rewards players who explore with story insights and secret endings
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