What is wrong with Gone Home?

It's good, we enjoyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FG4tNN3P9U

its not a game, its an interactive story

If you enjoyed games like Dear Esther and the Path, you'll probably enjoy Gone Home. It's hated for similar reasons, the fact that it's not a 'game' in the typical sense but an interactive story. I really liked it, I just thought the price tag was a little steep for the length of the game.

Mediocre game that's only celebrated because the story is about a hot-button political/social issue.
I love those type of games, but Gone Home is on the bottom of the list for me in terms of quality.

Looks like an horror game, but disappointing because is actually a walking simulator. Same for Dear Eshter, it looks great, but what you can do in the game?....walk, when I got it I thought it will be an horror game, but no. SO I just walked some time and bored, maybe I just didn't understand it.

People have a very narrow definition of what first-person games should be. If you liked Dear Esther and the Path, I think you'd enjoy Gone Home as well.

There's nothing wrong with it, in fact it's one of my favourite games ever. Don't judge the game by it's steam reviews, it was a critically acclaimed game (by professionals, not amateurs).
The people who gave it bad reviews would probably prefer a Michael Bay movie to a Fellini movie, so don't take their opinions into consideration and play the game by yourself (or watch some walkthrougs) to find out if you like it

The short answer is: nothing.

The long answer is: It became the darling of certain people for reasons that are mostly not related to the quality or enjoyment of the game itself, and was subsequently made out to be more than it really is. People going into it with expectations raised much too high got disappointed and pitched a fit, especially those who are prone to backlash against the kind of people who played up the game. I personally found the main storyline a bit saccharine and naive, but that's in the nature of any such story, and in the end I got on board with it anyway. The subplots are far more interesting in my opinion. If you've enjoyed the games you mentioned, I suspect you'll like it.

Nothing. It's a great way to tell a story through atmosphere and objects. If you liked Dear Eshter, you'll LOVE this.
People just can't read game descriptions and reviews, they only look at the scores, then complain.

I found the game decent, but it doesn't warrant the price tag.

i loved Gone home, didnt know there was a bad vibe about it. =S

Can't seem to find kill streaks, predator drones, UAV and hellfire missiles in this game.

Gone Homo is so shit because it was so hyped up by "gayming journalists" and every SJW idiot on the planet. There was nothing redeemably good about it. Story was shit, setting was just plain retarded (I accidently found the ending the first time I played it right at the start) and gameplay was practically none existent.
All in all it was mediocre, at best. It got all the hate because it was praised so goddamn much, undeserved.

It's a walking simulator. It can be beat in under 2 minutes. In fact, the entire speedrun can be fit into a reasonably sized .gif.

To make things worse there is no gameplay whatsoever asides from rummaging through someone's house to learn about some kid, which actually happens to be a gay running away from home.

It's basically the shortest visual novel ever. It's not even a game.

Personally I only watched a lets play of it, nothing about price or reviews had anything to do with it, I just wanted something to watch.

That said I enjoyed what I saw. The atmosphere at the start and then at the end is so dramatically different its a very nice change of pace from the majority of games out there. Story wise, I'd consider it a love story(?) so if that isn't your cup of tea, pass on the game. On that subject it was quite sweet, I enjoyed it. Visually the game was quite nice, shadows, lighting, everything.

I can see why some people would get angry they went into it thinking it was yet another horror game or something, and it wasn't. At $20 that can sour someone's day, but, in my opinion this is a good example of Games as Art. You don't need complex gameplay mechanics to have a good game, nor do you need violence in every game, and hey a romantic story about lesbians is fine...
[X] DEAL WITH IT.

i didnt like it........... its basicly a story abought a straight girl getting lesbian

It's more an interactive "experience" than a true story or game. Basically gamers hate pointless empathy.

A friend of mine said:

Gone Home: the $15 "looking around someone's house" simulator that nobody is allowed to criticize because lesbians.

So that's probably part of it.

particularly, i never played and i never will. not a fan of graphic adventures (if this thing is even able to call himself that), and i "play" dear eshter (DRM free edition, save yourself the trip to my profile), as a game it wasn't a game, and the story meh.
this gone home thing looks like the same idea ("gameplay" wise) but with more feelings, so meh.
also, the whole thing outside the game (game journalist praying it as the best videogame ever, the whole drama around the Dev, and bot extremes of the audience... the ones that call it "gone homo" and the other one that call morons to the other group, and also claim that the "game" is the best thing ever happen to gaming) pushes me away from the "game"...
finally the pirce, $20? nope.
maybe i will play it if i catch it on a bundle... and only if the bundle have other games on it.

If you love something like Dear Esther, then you'll enjoy it. It's not a "walking simulator", there's a story (actually more than one) you go unravelling as you walk through the house picking up objects and discovering your family's past and your sister's present.

It got Game of the Year title instead of The Stanley Parable, this is what is wrong with Gone Home.

Overall, I liked the game. The first hour or so of the game is really boring. But that's because you have to read and interact with everything in the house to get invested in the story. If you are an ADD kid (aren't we all, these days?) who gets bored/disctracted after a couple of minutes of reading, there's a big chance you will quit the game after a few rooms. What I liked about the game was that it only gives you a few pieces of information and, after a while, you start putting together your own theories reggarding what happened in the house and its inhabitants. The game keeps suggesting different things that might have happened in the house (ranging from the supernatural to the mundane) and keeps you always wondering the truth.

it's a walking simulator with prententious writting.

3 reasons:

1. It was overhyped to shit by journalists and others because of the lesbian aspect of the story and was nowhere near as good or deep as the reviews suggest.

2. The story wasn't that compelling or great. Sure it had the whole 90s aesthetic if you're into that, but overall, despite the decent presentation, it was still a victim of massive overhype.

3. The big one, at least for me. It had nowhere near the amount of content to justify the price tag.

Honestly, I'm getting tired of the whole story based game thing, because developers are sacrificing what should be the main focal point (the game) for the story. You could've gotten the same thing out of Gone Home with a book or movie for less money than they were asking for. I'd say it might be worth it if it's on sale for 33% or less of full price, but even then I wouldn't recommend it. There are just a lot of games out there that do the story based thing much better without trying to Activision you out of your cash. To The Moon is one example I can think of that I thought was great with a very emotional story. I still wouldn't buy it for full price though.

If you want a tl;dr for this: this is what's wrong with games now. Overhyped to shit, no gameplay, and the equivalent of a small malnourished child in terms of content for the amount of money they're asking for.