Gone Home vs Surviving High School
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.
Surviving High School
Surviving High School is a visual novel game by EA Games developed with only one intention in mind - to let you create your very own high school drama at Centerscore High through your interactions with the game's many intriguing characters including some cliche ones like the jock and the cheerleader. The different storylines you can uncover through the dialogue options you chose allows for multiple replays as you try to find all the endings in the game. There are also tons of fun mini-games for you to enjoy. The game is also quite similar to games like Episode or Choices in the respect that the story in this game is released on an per-episode basis.Unfortunately, Surviving High School is nolonger around - the game has been shuttered since 2014. However, if you're interested to play something similar, you might enjoy Episode, Choices or any of the games listed below.