
Gone Home
LumiScore?Our 0–100 score for how developmentally beneficial and low-risk this game is for children. Higher is better.
Utveckling
42/100
Utvecklingsvärde
- Läsning och språk
- Problemlösning
- Rumsuppfattning
Risk
LÅG
Engagemangsmönster
Minimal press att spendera eller spela överdrivet.
Obs
Föräldratips
Watch for emotional conversations after play. Gone Home tackles teen identity, same-sex relationships, and family conflict in a thoughtful way that may prompt real questions from your child.
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Utvecklingsområden
Representation?Hur varierande karaktärerna i spelet är gällande kön och etnicitet. Högre = mer autentisk representation. Endast visning – påverkar inte tidsrekommendationen.
Bechdel-testet?Bechdel-testet kontrollerar om spelet har minst två namngivna kvinnliga karaktärer som pratar med varandra om något annat än en man. Ett enkelt mått på representation.— Klarar testet
The game centers on multiple named female characters (Katie, Sam, Jan) who interact meaningfully through notes and environmental storytelling about topics beyond men.
Föräldratips
Ask your child to explain the family's story back to you — who the characters are, what happened, and how they figured it out. This turns the game into a rich reading-comprehension and narrative-reasoning exercise that mirrors skills used in English class.
Vad ditt barn utvecklar
Gone Home is an exceptional reading-and-inference experience that places literary comprehension at its absolute core. Players piece together a rich, emotionally layered family narrative by reading handwritten notes, journal entries, and documents scattered throughout a 1990s home. This demands sustained attention, careful observation, and strong critical thinking — players must synthesise clues from multiple sources to form a coherent picture of events. The game's empathy dividend is unusually high: the central storyline of a teenager navigating identity, family tension, and first love is handled with rare sensitivity, making it a powerful vehicle for perspective-taking and emotional intelligence. Spatial memory and exploration skills are also meaningfully exercised as players build a mental map of a complex multi-room house.
Regelefterlevnad
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Om spelet
Portland. It's June 7, 1995.