Easter Eggs

This page contains some of the Easter Eggs found in Gone Home.

Meow meow, meow
There is a small purple basketball located in the Garage's rafters. If knocked down with another object, taken to Samantha Greenbriar's room, and "Dunk"ed into the basketball hoop on the door, it unlocks the Journal entry "Meow meow, meow" and displays a slideshow of cat pictures on the TV.

Christmas Duck Nest
If the Christmas Duck (found at the beginning of the game, where the player gets the front door key) is taken to the attic and placed in the nest behind the attic stairs, it has a custom interaction prompt and hidden achievement.

Prohibition Reference
There is a note in the basement, found in the room leading off the servant's quarters, titled "Order This Month". It includes an order of alcohol, dated March 1923, during the United States Prohibition on alcohol.

Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais which represents the character from Hamlet in the act of drowning herself. It is shown as a poster beside the entrance in Sam's room.

Atonement
Despite being published in 2001, McEwan's novel, Atonement, can be found on Terrence Greenbriar's bookshelves. This was added as a parallel between the plot of the game and that of McEwan's novel. Several similarities include:


 * Both Briony and Sam have a talent for writing, they live with their parents and have an older sister.
 * Briony like Sam refuses to follow a higher education.
 * Robbie is enlisted in the army like Lonnie.
 * Sam writes on the SexEd assignment a bad romance set in the WWII where the man dies, exactly as in Atonement.
 * There is an abuse like the one between Oscar and Terrence.
 * The theme of remorse is central to Oscar's character as to Briony.