For the last few months, artist Robert Briscoe has been quietly working on a project: safeguarding developer thechineseroom's Dear Esther by rebuilding the first-person ghost story in Unity. Dear ...

Dear Esther is a story, pure and simple: a haunting, introspective and obscure interactive story. It begins on the desolate shore of an island, and gives you no clues about who you are or what’s going ...

Developer The Chinese Room’s Dear Esther drew praise in 2012 for its nontraditional approach to first-person adventuring. Some said it wasn’t truly a “game,” relying less on challenge and more on ...

Is Dear Esther really a game? It's a debate as old, and depending on your viewpoint, tedious, as time itself. A lesser explored question, at least until now though, is: is Dear Esther really a play?

Acclaimed mod-turned-full game Dear Esther is the latest project to receive a helping hand from superstar indie cash pool the Indie Fund, developer thechineseroom has told Gamasutra. Creator Dan ...

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition will have gameplay and graphical tweaks and a director’s commentary. Dear Esther, the acclaimed, narrative-driven exploration game from The Chinese Room will be available ...

The Chinese Room are releasing Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on PC. Originally released on console, the new version comes with a host of extras. It's yours for free if you own the original. If you ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The game was released on PC in 2012, and the console version is being called Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Along with the new name, it will have ...

Isolation can be crushing. Solitude can claim the very strongest hearts. The loneliness and beauty of Dear Esther contains all of them. A haunting dirge accompanies. Strange paintings of a luminescent ...

You don't kill, shoot or level up in Dear Esther. You don't even control your flashlight, it just clicks on automatically when you enter a dark space. Instead, Dear ...

Dear Esther spins an intriguing narrative, leaving you to decipher not only the outcome, but if this is even a game. Dear Esther is not a video game; at least, not in the traditional sense. In 2008, ...