Gone Home's alright once, as long as you think you're going in thinking it's going to be a horror game. If you just read the plot in a condensed form, then of course it's going to seem crap. That's not how you play games. Gone Home is about the realisation that you're not playing the game you thought you were.The original Doom would sound crap if you just read the plot online. "Wheyyyy white guy shoots evil aliens!" And that's a classic. Not my words, the words of everyone who's ever played it and isn't a dickhead (sorry if you don't think Doom is a classic, that does make you a dickhead though :( ).
This is the only attempt I'll make at defending Gone Home, I'd appreciate it if no one ever referred to it.