Games like Gone Home
If Gone Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tacoma, What Remains of Edith Finch and PROXIMATE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its objects reveal character backstories, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Gone Home is a 2013 narrative exploration game developed by Fullbright. Players investigate an empty family home in 1995, uncovering the story of what happened during a year-long absence through environmental storytelling and object examination. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, melancholic, and contemplative, and players highlight how objects reveal character backstories, with the house itself feeling alive with history. The game pioneered the walking simulator genre and tells a queer love story subtly through its details. The 86 Metacritic score and 77% positive Steam rating from over 10,700 reviews reflect its impact despite the short runtime. Verified for Steam Deck and priced at $14.99, it remains a chill, sit-down experience focused entirely on narrative unfolding.
About Gone Home: June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Players who liked Gone Home also play
Steam players who put hours into Gone Home also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Top pick for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Second-strongest match for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
PROXIMATE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Ranked #4 for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Ranked #5 for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Home is Where One Starts...
WHY THIS
Shares narrative unfolding and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Ranked #6 for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s 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.
Thirty Flights of Loving
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Ranked #7 for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
The Caribou Trail
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Ranked #8 for Gone Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
INFRA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
Scanner Sombre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Reviewers of Gone Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gone Home at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gone Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gone Home.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
The Caribou Trail
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Gone Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Frequently asked about Gone Home
- Is Gone Home verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Gone Home is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Gone Home cost?
- Gone Home is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gone Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gone Home are Tacoma, What Remains of Edith Finch, PROXIMATE.
- Who developed Gone Home?
- Gone Home was developed by Fullbright and published by Fullbright, Serenity Forge.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Gone Home.
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