When you’re spotted, you need to hide inside of lockers, giant terracotta pots, and other things until it’s clear for you to move around. You have no way to defend yourself from enemies and instead must sneak around while they’re not looking. Objects that you can interact with are highlighted as you get close to them, and you’ll spend a lot of your time grinding up against every shelf and desk to see if there’s something new to pick up. This is pretty standard fare for the genre, and the game doesn’t try to do much more than that. You’ll be finding keys, stealthing around spirits, and solving a handful of puzzles during your playthrough. Home Sweet Home is pretty simplistic when it comes to gameplay. It’s disappointing to see a setting and atmosphere wasted like this. And while there’s nothing wrong with a cheap little scare here and there, there’s not much else to the title, and it gets predictable after an hour or so. However, it far too often falls back on the tried-and-true jumpscare in order to really capitalize on this oppressive atmosphere. Walking around alone in your ruined apartment with distant whispering going on and the only illumination coming from your static-filled TV is scary. There’s a great attention to atmosphere in the title, with the soundscape and lighting being standout aspects. Scares in video games are always subjective, but if there’s one thing to say about Home Sweet Home, it’s that it can definitely be scary when it wants to be. "Home Sweet Home is pretty simplistic when it comes to gameplay. Along the way, you’ll gradually be filled in on more of the story and will also pick up note scraps to help flesh out your understanding of what’s going on. In this title, you’re thrown into unfamiliar locations and are tasked with finding your missing wife. Home Sweet Home is a return to the age of first-person horror most commonly associated with these Let’s Plays. And without that personality, it’s questionable what else these types of games have to offer to players. The fun that was associated with these titles was attached to the personality that was playing it. But aside from the occasional jump scare, most of these games didn’t have much going on in terms of actual gameplay. Watching someone else go through a scary game was a lot of fun because you could experience the game vicariously and you’d have someone else around to be scared with. Some of the most popular types of games for these entertainers to play were horror titles.
Some of you might remember when the craze of Youtube Let’s Plays got started.
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