# Games involving house exploration (first person, modern graphics) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [January 8, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423 "2022-01-08T10:28:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/1 "2022-01-08T10:28:35Z")
Just finished **What remains of Edith Finch** , which consists mostly of exploring a house during which a story unfolds. Beautiful game, and I love the realistic graphics of an abandoned house. Earlier I played through the Tomb Raider reboot games (2013-) where the two later instalments also have a section where you explore Croft Manor. I realised that I love walking around in a large house in such games, where thanks to modern graphics you are presented with a life-like environment with lots of details to look at, even if they aren’t all relevant to the story. Similarly Gone Home, although the graphics there were of course not as good, being an older game. That makes me wonder: do you know other games where you explore a realistic house in first person mode, with modern graphics? I do not mean games like Hitman, where the house is graphically impressive but clearly only a backdrop, with limited detail, as the focus is on the kill. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/2 "2022-01-08T11:08:40Z")
Are you only looking for recent or photorealistic games? Eg wasn’t _The 7th Guest_ in first person and with 3-D graphics? ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/3 "2022-01-08T11:19:50Z")
I’m looking for fairly recent games. The 7th Guest, if I recall correctly, didn’t allow free movement in the way modern games do, it was just a collection of pictures. There is something special about being able to move around. ---
**Author:** ![OldManLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oldmanlogan/32/5237_2.png) [@OldManLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldManLogan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/4 "2022-01-08T16:46:18Z")
Gone Home is a few years old but should satisfy that niche. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/5 "2022-01-08T20:14:36Z")
Visage is a creepy house exploration game. Though I only played it for a few hours before I got sidetracked, so I’m not sure if it’s entirely in the house or not. It’s on game pass. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/6 "2022-01-08T20:38:56Z")
Not the same as a house, but _Titanic HG_ is a spectacularly detailed game exploration of the _Titanic_. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/7 "2022-01-10T09:07:48Z")
You could try _Homesick_. A game very similar to Edith Finch, but **not** about exploring a home (instead you explore a landscape), is _The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter_. A game I would recommend in a similar vein is also not about exploring a home, called _Eastshade_. Others I liked along the same lines are _Dear Esther_, _The Room_, and _Maize_. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/8 "2022-01-15T17:07:47Z")
Thanks for the recommendations! Apparently there are far fewer games in this vein than I expected, the other suggestions look interesting, though. I’ll check the out. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/9 "2022-01-15T18:02:48Z")
Maybe it is not the most popular genre (that would be e-sports?), but I am sure there are a few more. The problem is, for some of them the name eludes me at the moment, and others I have not played (_House of Da Vinci_, for instance) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-involving-house-exploration-first-person-modern-graphics/957423/10 "2022-01-15T18:05:22Z")
> [@OldManLogan](#): > > Gone Home is a few years old but should satisfy that niche. That was a good one. I played through it when it was available via Xbox Live Gold. Super creepy and great puzzles.