This is a good example of the alleged goals of GamerGate is supposed to represent, because the combination of high acclaim from the major outlets and an indie developer being pretentious and butthurt about criticism is...indeed troubling.
Gone Home IS an interactive movie though, and I'm not even ragging on interactive movies or walking simulators as people have started to refer to them it's just that's the Genre, it can't be a first person puzzle game because the game has no puzzles.