Home is Where One Starts... on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Home is Where One Starts... is a adventure, indie and walking simulator game
developed and published by David Wehle.
Released on May 12th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 673 reviews of which 521 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista+, 64-bit only
- Processor: Intel i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX 9.0c video card with 256 MB VRAM and shader model 3.0 support
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- OS: Mac OSX 10.7
- Processor: Intel i5 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu (14.04+ tested), Manjaro, Arch Linux, etc. (64-bit only)
- Processor: Intel i5 1.8 GHz or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Any recent NVIDIA or AMD card (NVIDIA proprietary 352+ drivers tested)
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Beta version - please visit discussion forum for more info
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