I hope none of friends find out that I actually played this game. WARNING: Spoiler alerts.
I can pretty much sum up this game in a couple paragraphs. Your character (Katie) comes home from being in Europe for a year to a empty house. It's raining outside, there is thunder & lightning. In the house you find scattered clues. This house was giving to your dad by his Uncle Oscar who died a lonely death. Your parents are having marital problems so there are at a couples counseling retreat and it becomes evidently clear early in the game that your sister (Sam) is coming to terms that she is a lesbian falling in love with her girlfriend Lonnie.
In the end you get a key to go in the attic where Sam's dark room is and thinking the worst, like your sister took a bunch of pills or she hung herself from the rafters, but no. All you get is a letter from her explaining she decided to run off with her gay lover. WTF!! "OK. That's cool. Glad you're not dead or anything, but WTF!!!" Talk about the biggest anti-climatic ending ever. I just went through this entire house reading all these letters and notes to learn that my sister is gay right off the bat and the big shocker in the end is that she ran away with her lover!? Really!? Who the f*%k cares!?
I would think at Gamespot, when someone is reviewing a game and is prepared to crown it with a magnificent 9.5 Editors Choice rating that a Chief Editor would step in and say, "Wait a minute here. Let me have a play through of this and make sure it deserves a 9.5" Especially a indie game that is about a hour long.
I gave this game a 5.0 and that is being really overly generous on my part.
Way to go Gamespot!