The walking sim builds a story by piecing together different details, perspectives, and inferences so the players can craft a story to match the journey that they walked. In gone home, this idea of exploring and piecing together different pieces of information to find and uncover the truth but also different perspectives and versions of the story.

The confined and interactive environment nature of first person shooter games contradicts and mirrors the introspective and open world nature of walking simulator games. These two different perspectives develop different player approaches as with action-combat with first person shooter and empathy and understanding with walking sims. These illustrate the different natures of two game approaches as in Gone Home. The player is put and piece together and empathize and understand the situation and perspectives of the different family members and so an open world walking sim concept is best for this approach.

despite the predetermined endings by the authors, a maze story could be built with many complexities and paths that still entice the player by giving more agency

giving the player spatial navigation by letting them choose their own path

correlating between story and game by describing the appeal of a problem and symbolistic pattern