Gone Home vs Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge
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.
Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge
Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge sends you, while playing as Nancy Drew, to Japan where you are staying in a traditional Japanese inn with Bess and George. However, your vacation took a turn for the worse when a vengeful ghost start scaring away the other guests. Being the inquisitive detective that you are, it's now up to you to find out what's really going on before the ghost got the revenge it seeks!With a nice Japanese theme and the usual exciting gameplay that makes the Nancy Drew game series so popular among players of point-and-click adventure games, Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge is a great addition to the game franchise.