- I greatly enjoyed the original Dear Esther mod, but the reasons I enjoyed it were all unintentional, and all of them are lost in the remake.
- Dear Esther is an adventure story without weapons, puzzles and other traditional video game mechanics which allow it to instead focus solely on the narrative and...
- 9.99 USD. Windows, Mac OS, Linux. “A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.”.
- Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides.
- Dear Esther is a first-person ghost story. Rather than traditional game-play the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of a lonely island, of who you are...
- Dear Esther's poetic story had me in tears by the end, because it gave me a better story than any other game has ever produced for me, ever.
- As of 2023, the 2011 version of the game is no longer available on Steam in favor of "Dear Esther: Landmark Edition", which runs on Unity engine.
- Well, more or less, at least of what we seemed to understand by Dear Esther, since the title can be (and must be) played at least three times to be fully learned.
- Dear Esther is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played at points, overcoming any sense of dullness the rest of the experience put me through.
- Since the original release, Dear Esther has sold over one million units and is seen as a benchmark in interactive and emotional storytelling.