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[SalmonGod]

Anyone else played this?  Is there enough variability to the game to warrant multiple plays?  I just played through it for the first time today.  Not sure what to say about it.

[Alkhemia]

  could you give some more info the first thing I think when you say Home is PSN Home and I doubt you mean that.

[SalmonGod]

There's a little indie game on Steam called simply Home.

Have a... Home page link    (yeah!)

[dei]

I'm still too shaken up over Daemonophobia to even consider playing a horror game. This one looks interesting though. It's too bad that I don't have a Steam account and that I'm saving what little I have so I can get an anime boxset next week. Ah well, I might check this little game out when I'm not too bothered by the idea of playing a horror game.

[Stworca]

It's NOT a horror game, and to answer OP's question : There is one way to play through it, but depending on stuff you find, and conclusions you make, your character weaves a different scenario in his mind.

For 1.49 it's decent.

[Bdthemag]

Yeah, it looks like a horror game at first glance but it isn't. I didn't really have a whole lot of fun with it, considering it was mainly just you walking in a straight line, and occasionally going into a room to grab an item. The story is kind of "Meh" too, the only upside to this game is how the story changes depending on the choices you make.

[SalmonGod]

Yeah, it seemed like sort of an experimental game.  I can appreciate that, but the pacing was soooo slow.  I've seen some reports that the story alterations can be fairly drastic if you change things in a different playthrough, and I'm willing to try it one more time if that's the case.

[dei]

Yeah, it seemed like sort of an experimental game.  I can appreciate that, but the pacing was soooo slow.  I've seen some reports that the story alterations can be fairly drastic if you change things in a different playthrough, and I'm willing to try it one more time if that's the case.

So in other words it is an experimental and perhaps artistic game. If it were free then perhaps I might consider making an acquisition of said game, but at this time I am both saving up for something I desire more as well as wary of putting Steam on my somewhat ancient personal computer. Perhaps some other time, and perhaps sooner if someone can relay the system requirements for Home. The system requirements of Steam might be useful as well.

[SalmonGod]

I think a 386 could run Home.  It's the lowest res game I've played in a very long time.  It's also $1.50.  Not trying to sell it to you or anything.  Just letting you know. 

Spoiler: just some slightly spoilery description of what to expect from gameplay (click to show/hide)

And it is very artsy.  You basically wander around some sort of creepy environments and pick up clues to a murder mystery.  There is zero action, and the closest thing to another character that you encounter is a couple dead bodies.  You make some choices here and there about whether or not to pick up certain items and what to do with them.  I think the main feature is that as you progress, and especially at the end, your character draws different conclusions about what happened.  My question for the thread has been whether the variation caused by your choices is really significant.  It takes about an hour to play through the game, and you're supposed to do it in one sitting.  Wasn't going to bother if it's minor stuff.  Seems like I'll have to find out for myself.  I'll report back whenever I get around to it.