Gone Home
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 18,472
- Critics
- 86 players 9 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 2h
- To 100%
- 3.1h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 117 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 November 2024
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 60% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
17% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 117 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tacoma ($5.59, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Thirty Flights of Loving ($4.99, scores 8).
More about Gone Home
Critics scored it 86, but players land 9 points lower at 77 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 4,901 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Okay, game, you got me. I was emotionally invested by the end of this game. Short and sweet, but good none the less. It's interesting that this game is over 10 years old and I'm just now playing it. I feel like I should have known about this game sooner. Well, anyways, good story, good game. Would recommend!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Short and nostalgia bait-y, with some fun exploration and a story that's not bad by any means, but could and should be much better and more interesting than it is.
Bugged Doors: Some doors are bugged, it's even mentioned in the commentary! Fix your garbage game! Speed-Run Achievement Vagueness: To obtain the two speed-run achievements you must not only finish the game in under 60 seconds, or under 10 minutes, but also watch the end credits both times, if you do not watch the end credits the achievements do not unlock.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Gone Home scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232430/gone-homeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.