[2] The tapes are a mixture of educational clips, commercials, public service announcements, and home videos,[3] produced by various fictional companies such as Regnad Computing, Harbinge Technologies, and Optica!

[4] The different episodes are superficially self contained, exploring topics such as wildlife, artificial intelligence, and the Solar System, but together they build a cohesive narrative and serve to document the impending end of the world.

[5] The series' central antagonist is The Iris, a sentient planet or planet-like entity which is masterminding an invasion of the Solar System and is influencing life on Earth.

The first part of the video concerns life in the ocean, although several points are incorrect, such as its citation that the blue whale often eats fish whole (the blue whale's diet consists almost entirely of krill and is incapable of consuming larger creatures), and that the stingray carries deadly poison in its tail (it would be considered venom in this case, and the venom is not necessarily deadly in all cases).

[8] The game is set in the fictional, in-universe location of "Moonlight Acres Family Camp", where the player takes a role of an unnamed protagonist armed only with a gun which can be used to kill enemies scattered around the map.

One of the subplots of Gemini Home Entertainment revolves around a campsite called Moonlight Acres; this portion was inspired by the more recent horror films The Endless (2017) and The Ritual (2017).

Abode made the decision to largely exclude jump scares from Gemini Home Entertainment due to finding horror more effective when it did not "provide the climactic release that a jumpscare brings" and instead simply maintained prolonged tension.

[9] Bailee Perkins of Hyperreal Film Club wrote in a 2022 review that Gemini Home Entertainment was her "favorite analog horror series to date" and that it was planned out and executed in a great way.

[5] Tanner Fox of Screen Rant referred to Gemini Home Entertainment in 2021 as "nearly as notorious as Local 58" and found the series to be "eerily authentic" and "an absolute much-watch for those who enjoy this sort of lo-fi horror".

[1] Lacey Womack, also of Screen Rant, assessed Gemini Home Entertainment in 2022 as "excruciatingly strange", "tough to follow" and one of the best video-based alternate reality games.