Gone Home!

The first impression of this game was pure mystery, I couldn't tell if it was a ghost story or a murder or something even darker. The only information you are armed with at the beginning is the fact that you have been gone for awhile and just returned home from a trip from Europe only to find your family missing and an empty house to explore. The themes and atmosphere of Gone Home will captivate you forcing you to find out what happened to your family. The use of audio logs on top of being able to investigate was a very nice mechanic. I often found myself listening to the audio logs while reading things in the environment a real sense of story immersion is obtained through this. When you finally start to put things togethor and explore more of the house you begin to understand the motive for some of the actions of your family. Gone Home is a narrative masterpiece keeping you in a constant state of wanting to know what happened to unravel the mystery.