Games like Home is Where One Starts...
If Home is Where One Starts... is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Remains of Edith Finch, Lost Brothers and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 →About Home is Where One Starts...: 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.
Players who liked Home is Where One Starts... also play
Steam players who put hours into Home is Where One Starts... 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.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Top pick for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Lost Brothers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Third-strongest match for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares narrative unfolding and an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Ranked #4 for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Ranked #5 for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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 First Tree
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Ranked #6 for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
Portrait of a Torn
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Ranked #7 for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Ranked #8 for Home is Where One Starts... fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Home is Where One Starts... at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home is Where One Starts....
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home is Where One Starts....
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home is Where One Starts....
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home is Where One Starts... on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home is Where One Starts....
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 Home is Where One Starts....
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 Home is Where One Starts....
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 Home is Where One Starts....
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Home is Where One Starts....
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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 Home is Where One Starts....
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 Home is Where One Starts....
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares narrative unfolding and an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with Home is Where One Starts....
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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.
Frequently asked about Home is Where One Starts...
- How much does Home is Where One Starts... cost?
- Home is Where One Starts... is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Home is Where One Starts...?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Home is Where One Starts... are What Remains of Edith Finch, Lost Brothers, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
- Who developed Home is Where One Starts...?
- Home is Where One Starts... was developed by David Wehle.
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 Home is Where One Starts....
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