{"id":40509,"date":"2018-08-15T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_critically_acclaimed_gone_home_is_headed_to_nintendo_switch_next_week"},"modified":"2018-08-15T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:10:00","slug":"the-critically-acclaimed-gone-home-is-headed-to-nintendo-switch-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/the-critically-acclaimed-gone-home-is-headed-to-nintendo-switch-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Critically Acclaimed Gone Home Is Headed To Nintendo Switch Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c5abf29946e4e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c5abf29946e4e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_critically_acclaimed_gone_home_is_headed_to_nintendo_switch_next_week\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Fullbright Company and Annapurna Interactive have announced that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/gone_home\">Gone Home<\/a><\/strong>, a critically acclaimed interactive adventure, will be released on\u00a0Switch next week.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the name, Gone Home is a first-person exploration adventure set in 1995. Taking the role of Katie, players simply explore their surroundings, with no clear goals or pathways presented at any time. Events unfold in a house in rural Oregon,\u00a0full of interesting and everyday objects for you to examine. As you do so, you unlock a series of journal entries that help you to figure out the recent events that took place there.<\/p>\n<p>Gone Home was originally destined to arrive on Wii U but, despite eventually making it to PS4 and Xbox One, the Nintendo version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/12\/gone_home_is_no_longer_on_its_way_to_the_wii_u_eshop\">sadly never came<\/a>. As mentioned above, however, it went on to receive critical\u00a0acclaim, going on to secure a Metascore of 86 on review aggregator Metacritic with some very attractive full-points scores being obtained along the way. The game was mostly praised for its approach to storytelling and for providing a different experience to those commonly found in the gaming world.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be available to purchase directly from the Switch&#8217;s eShop on 23rd August, celebrating the original release&#8217;s fifth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you play Gone Home on other systems? Will you be checking this one out now that it&#8217;s made its way to Switch? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The Fullbright Company and Annapurna Interactive have announced that Gone Home, a critically acclaimed interactive adventure, will be released on\u00a0Switch next week. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the name, Gone Home is a first-person exploration adventure set in 1995. Taking the role of Katie, players simply explore their surroundings, with no clear goals or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}