Games like Home is Where One Starts...
Looking for games like Home is Where One Starts...? Here are top simulation recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The First Tree, Marie's Room or Gone Home.
1 75%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability72% User Score 2,876 reviewsCritic Score 79%7 reviewsA beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
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View Game93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability93% User Score 4,361 reviewsMarie's Room is a short-story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates, told through memories. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was 20 years ago. What happened to Marie and Kelsey all those years ago?
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, optimization77% User Score 20,826 reviewsCritic Score 82%14 reviewsA first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Katie must explore the mansion to put together the stories of where her parents have gone and why Sam has decided to leave.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, stability86% User Score 4,014 reviewsCritic Score 78%38 reviewsThe Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game focused on exploration and discovery. As occult-minded private detective Paul Prospero communicate with the dead to discover the fate of a missing boy and the mystery behind a dark ancient force lurking in Red Creek Valley.
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, optimization69% User Score 1,033 reviewsCritic Score 75%8 reviewsEverybody’s Gone to the Rapture™ tells the story of the inhabitants of a remote English valley who are caught up in world-shattering events beyond their control or understanding. Made by The Chinese Room – the studio responsible for the hauntingly beautiful Dear Esther – this tale of how people respond in the face of grave adversity is a non-linear, open-world experience that pushes innovative int…
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, character development83% User Score 491 reviewsCritic Score 63%4 reviewsLeaving Lyndow is a short, first-person exploration adventure game, set in the Eastshade universe. It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. With high honors, she's graduated and fulfilled her childhood dream of joining the Guild of Maritime Exploration. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes - before leaving on a journey she may not retur…
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67%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, gameplay67% User Score 519 reviewsCaligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.
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76%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, replayability84% User Score 3,779 reviewsCritic Score 69%11 reviewsFrom the creator of To the Moon: A simple, wordless 1-hour short about a boy who found an injured bird, told through a blur between reality and imagination. A Bird Story is an interactive pixel animation with the sole purpose of telling a simple story. It is a standalone narrative, with its own beginning and ending.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding78% User Score 3,067 reviewsCritic Score 70%3 reviewsTwo years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent year…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability90% User Score 1,490 reviewsCritic Score 83%2 reviewsPinstripe is an emotionally charged adventure about Hell created entirely by a one-man team over the course of five years. Play as Teddy, an estranged ex-minister forced to venture through the frozen afterlife in search of Bo, his three year old daughter, and her perverse kidnapper. Discover the dark secrets of Teddy's past, and confront his sleazy, demonic nemesis, Mr. Pinstripe.
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