Well, it's about you, a young woman named Katie, coming home from an overseas visit, to find your childhood home essentially dark and abandoned, with only clues left behind as to what has transpired since you've been away. As you take a leisurely stroll through the house at your own pace, you come across audio tapes, diary entries and other things that will reveal parts of your family, and specifically, your little sister, that will eventually all climax in, honestly, one of the single most simultaneously heart wrenching and joy inducing moments I've ever experienced in my time gaming.
I grew up feeling terrified that my parents, despite being Democrats and pretty open to people themselves, would hate me if I ever said anything about who I was, so this game really touched me in some deep wounds that I've been licking for years now. I guess queer people are so damned terrifying that the mere concept of us sends everyone into a tizzy. That's partially what made Gone Home such a rousing success, and such a controversial game, though for reasons I'll never understand, as a lot of what would be deemed "controversial" by people who've never left their comfort bubble happens primarily off screen and is only discussed via diary entries or voice over. Especially in regards to minority groups (varying ethnicities, LGBT members, etc), people who never get to see themselves represented in media really, also understandably, flip their lid when they finally ARE represented in things, especially when in ways that aren't stereotypical or in a negative light.
People clamor for representation in everything, and understandably so.
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