Every item can be dragged around and tossed at a different location, or sometimes used in the environment such as putting a tape in a recorder to listen to music. Items can be picked up and rotated freely in any direction to get a better look. Almost every item in the environment can be examined even if there is no direct purpose. Most items are typical for specific rooms, such as different types of foods in a refrigerator, but also a lot of random items such as buttons, markers, pieces of papers and more, as they are expected to be found in a typical family home. Drawers can be opened, lights can be turned on, you can look inside a dishwasher, browse books in a library, read flyers. The core gameplay revolves around browsing through items of which most serve no direct purpose. These are however not presented as puzzles, but are scattered among typical items found in a house.
Clues are pieced together by examining items in the environment: notes, letters, bills, photographs etc. The game then offers the player the ability to freely explore the rooms of the house in any order or direction. Sam however has left a note on the door that she is gone and urging her sister not to come look for her. When she arrives the house is entirely deserted with no trace of her father, mother or sister Samantha. The protagonist is Kaitlin Greenbriar, a 20-year-old woman who returns to her parents home in the USA on 7th June 1995 after a long trip in Europe. It focuses on exploration and is set entirely in a single house. Gone Home is a story-driven adventure game played from a first-person perspective.
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