Gardens of Time vs Gone Home
Gardens of Time
Gardens of Time is a hidden object adventure game with a stoyrline that based on time travel. You play as a Time Keeper in the Time Society in this game and it is your sacred duty to protect the integrity of time against external, and possibly sinister forces, by putting objects from other time periods back to where they belong. The game also has some elements of building as well since you'll be given the honor of nuturing your very own time garden to house artifacts you've collected from your travels.Being a Keeper of Time is no easy task, more so when some sinister forces are trying to mess up the space-time continuum. Seek and retrieve items that are out of place across time and protect history from these forces with your life. History mustn't fall into the wrong hands!
Gone Home
Gone Home is a story-rich, point-and-click adventure game where you find your childhood home devoid of life after returning from a year abroad. The mystery of it all sets you off on an investigate mode as you examine clues and uncover what had happened to your family using what they have left behind. The storyline you'll gradually reveal is both heartwarming and incredibly relatable as it touches on a family's struggle with uncertainty, heartache and change.Being a point-and-click adventure, this game doesn't have any puzzles to challenge you or intruders who will attack you on sight. There isn't anything supernatural about the whole event so there's no need to fear looking behind your back or into a mirror. All you need to do is to find and collect clues, and eventually piece together the story of what had happened to your family while you were away.
This is definitely the sort of game that a fan of story-rich games would love. The entire game's premise is centered around its storyline and hence, it's as good as it gets.