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25 Great Games Like Gone Home

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Gone Home. We also offer games selected by matching genre and age rating.
 

Gone Home places you in the role of Katie, returning from overseas to her family home. But the house is deserted and by exploring the rooms you piece together what happened to her sister, Sam. It’s a mystery to solve, but a common one of family disagreements, identity and sexual preferences.

Unfortunately, Gone Home is not available on Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Gone Home
PEGI Rating 16+ for Gone Home

DetailsGame Details

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 15/08/2013, updated in 2016

Price: 75% off

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Fullbright

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

Hand Picked Games Like Gone Home

These are our hand-picked games similar to Gone Home. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Gone Home, or as younger rated alternatives for players not ready for PEGI 16+ or ESRB MATURE 17+ games. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

Firewatch
PEGI Rating 16+ for Firewatch

Firewatch

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 20/09/2016

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Accessibility: 22 features

Developer: @Camposanto

Players: This is a single player game

Firewatch is an explorative adventure where you play a fire lookout in America’s Shoshone National Forest. It has a relational and conspiracy undertone similar to the podcast/radio drama and Netflix show [link to...

Lake

Lake

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 01/09/2021

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @WhiteThornGames

Players: This is a single player game

Lake is a narrative adventure where you play Meredith Weiss on a career break in 1986 while she returns to her hometown and ends up delivering the mail. As you talk to locals, meet up with old school friends and even fan a few romantic flames from your...

To The Moon
PEGI Rating 12+ for To The Moon

To The Moon

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 10/11/2011, updated in 2020

Price: 30% off

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @Reives_FreeBird

Players: This is a single player game

To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's...

Open Roads

Open Roads

Expected Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @FullBright

Players: This is a single player game

Open Roads is an adventure game about a girl who finds out that her grandma has a different past than she thought. The girl and her mother go on a journey to look deeper into her grandma's life by revisiting abandoned family properties and looking...

Life Is Strange
PEGI Rating 18+ for Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange (Series)

Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: 19/01/2016

Price: 80% off

Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Accessibility: 18 features

Developer: @DONTNOD_Ent

Players: This is a single player game

This is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover the ability to...

Fractured Minds
PEGI Rating 7+ for Fractured Minds

Fractured Minds

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 14/11/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @EmilyMGames

Players: This is a single player game

Fractured Minds is a short game that explores the implications of living with mental illness. You explore everyday spaces that behave in strange and sometimes disturbing ways. To progress, you need to solve some simple puzzles.

Eliza
PEGI Rating 16+ for Eliza

Eliza

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 10/10/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @Zachtronics

Players: This is a single player game

Eliza is an interactive narrative where you play Evelyn, a young woman burnt out from the pressures of a high-tech job. She now works for a virtual counselling service called Eliza, that guides counsellors to provide the ideal response to patients.

Her Story
PEGI Rating 16+ for Her Story

Her Story

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 24/06/2015

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @MrSamBarlow

Players: This is a single player game

Solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors. Although there are only...

What Remains of Edith Finch
PEGI Rating 16+ for What Remains of Edith Finch

What Remains of Edith Finch

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2017

Price: 60% off

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @GiantSparrow

Players: This is a single player game

Edith Finch is the surviving member of the Finch family, who seem to have died from a curse. In first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.

Rivals

Rivals

Expected Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 21/09/2020

Platforms: PC

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 18 features

Developer: @TimSheinman

Players: This is a single player game

Rivals is a puzzle game where you piece together the story of Josh and Luke and the breakup of their band. Playing detective, similarly to Return of the Obra Dinn, but rather than murder it's musical betrayal you are sleuthing here. You inspect sources,...

The Walking Dead
PEGI Rating 18+ for The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead (Series)

Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: 24/04/2012, updated in 2018

Price: 40% off

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action and Narrative

Developer: @TelltaleGames

Players: This is a single player game

Walking Dead is a survival adventure game series. You explore locations and gather a ragtag group of survivors. How you interact with each of them and make decisions about various dangers results in a branching story where no one is guaranteed to survive.

Dear Esther
PEGI Rating 12+ for Dear Esther

Dear Esther

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 14/02/2012

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Accessibility: 3 features

Developer: @ChineseRoom

Players: This is a single player game

In Dear Esther you explore an uninhabited Hebridean island while an old man reads a series of letters to his eponymous deceased wife. Themes of love, loss, guilt and redemption intertwine with the bleak geography and orchestral music. As you explore the...

Tacoma
PEGI Rating 16+ for Tacoma

Tacoma

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 24/04/2018

Price: 60% off

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @Fullbright

Players: This is a single player game

Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...

One Night Hot Springs
PEGI Rating 3+ for One Night Hot Springs

One Night Hot Springs

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 30/08/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac and PC

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @npckc

Players: This is a single player game

One Night, Hot Springs is a narrative game where you play Haru, a 19-year-old transgender woman in Japan. She's invited by an old friend on an overnight trip to a hot springs resort. You make dialogue and interactive choices as you discover that Haru is...

Games Like Gone Home Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Gone Home. This includes games from the Puzzle and Narrative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
 

Photographs - Puzzle Stories
PEGI Rating 18+ for Photographs Puzzle Stories

Return of the Obra Dinn
PEGI Rating 16+ for Return of the Obra Dinn

The Cost of Recovery

Her Story
PEGI Rating 16+ for Her Story

Rivals

Fire Escape
PEGI Rating 16+ for Fire Escape

Aviary Attorney
PEGI Rating 12+ for Aviary Attorney

Hindsight

Telling Lies
PEGI Rating 16+ for Telling Lies

Murder by Numbers
PEGI Rating 12+ for Murder by Numbers

Genesis Noir
PEGI Rating 12+ for Genesis Noir

Gone Home is in This List

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Gone Home in the following list:

Solve a Mystery

Like a good crime drama or whodunnit novel, solving mysteries and puzzles is a good way to engage in a story. However, rather than just watching these mysteries while someone else does the heavy lifting, these video games place you firmly in the role of the detective. Gathering statements, sifting evidence and making intelligent leaps of deduction requires care and attention. These investigations makes these games slower than others, but it’s worth the effort each time you find the correct conclusion and move the story on.

These games present you with a mysterious scenario to be solved. Whether with direct puzzles, locations to investigate or crime scenarios to deduce, they offer a unique, first-hand sleuthing challenge.
 

Psychonauts 2
PEGI Rating 12+ for Psychonauts 2

A Place for the Unwilling

Road Not Taken
PEGI Rating 7+ for Road Not Taken

Gunpoint

Orwell
PEGI Rating 12+ for Orwell

June's Journey
PEGI Rating 7+ for Junes Journey

Yoku's Island Express
PEGI Rating 7+ for Yokus Island Express

She Dreams Elsewhere

Five Nights at Freddy's
PEGI Rating 12+ for Five Nights at Freddys

Nuts

Do Not Feed the Monkeys
PEGI Rating 16+ for Do Not Feed the Monkeys

HoloVista

Backbone

Uncharted: Golden Abyss
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted Golden Abyss

Open Roads

Growbot

Last Stop

Virginia
PEGI Rating 12+ for Virginia

Paradise Killer
PEGI Rating 16+ for Paradise Killer

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted The Lost Legacy

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted Drakes Fortune

Metamorphosis
PEGI Rating 12+ for Metamorphosis

Disc Room
PEGI Rating 16+ for Disc Room

The Good Life

Rivals

The Touryst
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Touryst

Tenderfoot Tactics

Lost and Hound
PEGI Rating 7+ for Lost and Hound

Luna The Shadow Dust
PEGI Rating 3+ for Luna The Shadow Dust

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories

Reigns: Beyond
PEGI Rating 7+ for Reigns Beyond

Immortals Fenyx Rising
PEGI Rating 12+ for Immortals Fenyx Rising

South of the Circle

Embracelet
PEGI Rating 12+ for Embracelet

Minit
PEGI Rating 3+ for Minit

Frequency Missing
PEGI Rating 3+ for Frequency Missing

Alt-Frequencies
PEGI Rating 12+ for AltFrequencies

Timelie

Among Us
PEGI Rating 7+ for Among Us

Lifeline
PEGI Rating 16+ for Lifeline

Dreamscaper
PEGI Rating 7+ for Dreamscaper

As Dusk Falls

Tell Me Why
PEGI Rating 16+ for Tell Me Why

Thousand Threads

Eastward

Maquette
PEGI Rating 3+ for Maquette

Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise
PEGI Rating 7+ for Agent A A Puzzle In Disguise

Returnal
PEGI Rating 16+ for Returnal

Roki
PEGI Rating 12+ for Roki

Stray

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
PEGI Rating 7+ for The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past

Before I Forget

The Simpsons Hit and Run
PEGI Rating 7+ for The Simpsons Hit and Run

The Walk
PEGI Rating 16+ for The Walk

Fire Escape
PEGI Rating 16+ for Fire Escape

Over The Alps

Murder by Numbers
PEGI Rating 12+ for Murder by Numbers

Omensight
PEGI Rating 12+ for Omensight

Superliminal
PEGI Rating 7+ for Superliminal

Tangle Tower
PEGI Rating 7+ for Tangle Tower

I Am Dead
PEGI Rating 7+ for I Am Dead

Recore
PEGI Rating 12+ for Recore

Ghost Trick
PEGI Rating 12+ for Ghost Trick

Another Lost Phone
PEGI Rating 16+ for Another Lost Phone

Aviary Attorney
PEGI Rating 12+ for Aviary Attorney

Alan Wake
PEGI Rating 16+ for Alan Wake

Heaven's Vault
PEGI Rating 7+ for Heavens Vault

Spy Party

Luigi's Mansion
PEGI Rating 7+ for Luigis Mansion

Outer Wilds
PEGI Rating 7+ for Outer Wilds

Control
PEGI Rating 16+ for Control

Fez
PEGI Rating 3+ for Fez

Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure
PEGI Rating 12+ for Rhythm Thief and The Emperors Treasure

Portal
PEGI Rating 12+ for Portal

The Witness
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Witness

Tacoma
PEGI Rating 16+ for Tacoma

Dear Esther
PEGI Rating 12+ for Dear Esther

What Remains of Edith Finch
PEGI Rating 16+ for What Remains of Edith Finch

The Secret of Monkey Island
PEGI Rating 12+ for The Secret of Monkey Island

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
PEGI Rating 12+ for Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Night in the Woods
PEGI Rating 12+ for Night in the Woods

Gone Home
PEGI Rating 16+ for Gone Home

Firewatch
PEGI Rating 16+ for Firewatch

Black Mirror Bandersnatch

Telling Lies
PEGI Rating 16+ for Telling Lies

Her Story
PEGI Rating 16+ for Her Story

Observation
PEGI Rating 16+ for Observation

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
PEGI Rating 16+ for Everybodys Gone to the Rapture

Return of the Obra Dinn
PEGI Rating 16+ for Return of the Obra Dinn

The Signifier
PEGI Rating 18+ for The Signifier

Until Dawn
PEGI Rating 18+ for Until Dawn

Disco Elysium
PEGI Rating 18+ for Disco Elysium

Assassin's Creed Black Flag
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Black Flag

Assassin's Creed Origins
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Origins

Watch Dogs 2
PEGI Rating 18+ for Watch Dogs 2

Twelve Minutes
PEGI Rating 18+ for Twelve Minutes

Nier: Automata
PEGI Rating 18+ for Nier Automata

Rainswept
PEGI Rating 18+ for Rainswept

Zero Escape
PEGI Rating 18+ for Zero Escape

Assassin's Creed Odyssey
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Odyssey


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