We are watching X-Files with no lights on (I hope the Smoking Man's in this one) as we simulate walking through our return home in the 2013 video game Gone Home by The Fullbright Company. We hunt ghosts with our girlfriend and adorn our lockers with starlets exclusively covered on The Mixed Reviews podcast as we walk into not just a horror story, but a love story, and the most zine-filled of all the decades: the 1990s.

It's Steggy? Stelly? It's Steggy.

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Check out the Novel Gaming Podcast and their episode on Gateway Games from June 2022 to hear Katie's thoughts on Gone Home (and awesome recommendations of other great games to get people into gaming from Vicki, Katie, and Doug).

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Other References:

Burr, L. "Haunted Spaces, Lived-In Places: A Narrative Archaeology of Gone Home" 2015

Murray, A. "Playing by a Different Set of Rules: The Narrative Structure of Gone Home" 2017