Home is Where One Starts...

David Wehle · May 12, 2015

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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 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.

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Critic 7.0 (2 critics) · Gamer 7.5

Critic reviews

Game Grin
Borja Vilar Martos · Jun 10, 2015
9.0
The piano melody is slow, emotionally-loaded and prompts you to reflect on the girl’s situation. The mechanics are simple, but conveying, and although the interactivity with objects is quite reduced, the level design and the attention to symbolism in the objects is meaningful and on point.
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Cubed3
Thomas Wrobel · May 24, 2015
5.0
Home is Where One Starts… is an incomplete snapshot of a time in someone's life. It has a worthy goal, but falls quite short of it. It consists of nothing more than wandering about, and looking at perhaps no more than a dozen items. ...Home is Where One Starts… feels like a framework for an experience one could get lost in, if only more was there.
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