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About Home is Where One Starts...
About this game
“I remember when I was a little girl, waiting at the end of my driveway. I had already missed the school bus, but I stood there anyway… envying the birds.”
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s an experience where every object has been carefully placed to tell a poignant story—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. Exploring the lonely countryside reveals clues and vignettes which help the player answer the question of where home is—and how one can get there.
Key features:
- A quiet, non-linear story told by the future self of a reflective narrator
- Inspired by the rural countryside and stories like John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
- A 15-30 minute experience that can be completed in one sitting
- An experience that focuses on atmosphere rather than action or puzzles
- A rich, detailed environment that rewards players who explore with story insights and secret endings
- Oculus Rift DK2 support (currently in beta)
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- May 12, 2015
- Developer:
- David Wehle
- Publisher:
- David Wehle
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Steam Deck Support:
- Unknown
- Link:
- Features:
- Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Captions available
Partial Controller Support
Singleplayer
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows XP+
- Processor: Intel i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX 9.0c video card with 256 MB VRAM and shader model 3.0 support
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel i5, 2.8+ GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 570, AMD Radeon 6870, or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Only Oculus SDK 0.4.4 supported currently
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Mac OSX 10.7
- Processor: Intel i5 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Ubuntu (14.04+ tested), Manjaro, Arch Linux, etc. (64-bit only)
- Processor: Intel i5 1.8 GHz or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Any recent NVIDIA or AMD card (NVIDIA proprietary 352+ drivers tested)
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Beta version - please visit discussion forum for more info
Play Time Statistics
Time Played
0% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
Difficulty Statistics
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Frequently Asked Questions
- OS: Windows XP+
- Processor: Intel i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX 9.0c video card with 256 MB VRAM and shader model 3.0 support
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel i5, 2.8+ GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 570, AMD Radeon 6870, or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Only Oculus SDK 0.4.4 supported currently
- OS: Mac OSX 10.7
- Processor: Intel i5 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
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