Microsoft Windows 14 February 2012 OS X 15 May 2012 PlayStation 4, Xbox One 20 September 2016 iOS 3 October 2019
Genre(s)
Adventure
Mode(s)
Single-player
Dear Esther is a 2012 adventure game developed and published by The Chinese Room. It was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2012 and OS X in May 2012. Ports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released by Curve Digital in September 2016. First released in 2008 as a free modification for the Source game engine, the game was entirely redeveloped for a commercial release in 2012. Featuring minimalistic gameplay, the player's only objective in the game is to explore an unnamed island in the Hebrides, Scotland, listening to a troubled man read a series of letters to his deceased wife. Details of her mysterious death are revealed as the player moves throughout the island.
The Chinese Room released a spiritual successor to Dear Esther, titled Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, in 2015.
DearEsther is a 2012 adventure game developed and published by The Chinese Room. It was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2012 and OS X in May...
three projects were two mods for Half-Life 2, named Antlion Soccer and DearEsther, and a Doom 3 mod titled Conscientious Objector. The modding project...
Still Wakes the Deep was led by The Chinese Room, the studio behind DearEsther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. The...
2023. When Dan Pinchbeck was developing his experimental video game DearEsther he turned to his wife Curry to write a score. Thus Curry became the co-founder...
referring to new games as walking simulators in the late 2000s, notably with DearEsther. The term was eventually used less pejoratively and adopted by gamers...
February 2012). "Amnesia follow-up coming from Frictional Games and DearEsther developer". Polygon. Archived from the original on 8 October 2017. Retrieved...
Pauline Esther Phillips (born Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show...
finds in his illusory landscape. Like Thechineseroom's previous mod, DearEsther, the player explores the environment while listening to narration. However...
Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter...
advice column Dear Abby since 2000. She was born in Minneapolis to Pauline Esther Phillips, who founded Dear Abby in 1956. Jeanne Phillips' Dear Abby column...
– Scott Warner, Kenneth Scott, 343 Industries/Microsoft Game Studios DearEsther – Robert Briscoe, The Chinese Room/The Chinese Room Borderlands 2 – Jeramy...
12,000 copies, sufficient to repay the investment. The second game, DearEsther, cleared 16,000 units within 6 hours of being available on Steam, the...
(2 November 2012). "TIGA Games Industry Awards 2012 winners revealed, DearEsther wins big". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved...
whirlpool in the Gulf of Corryvreckan. The 2012 exploration adventure game DearEsther by developer The Chinese Room is set on an unnamed island in the Hebrides...
story or narrative to the player. Examples: The Walking Dead, Persona 3, DearEsther Challenge: Game as obstacle course. Games that provide the player(s)...
develop. Introversion markets the game as being inspired by Gone Home and DearEsther. Virtual reality compatibility has been implemented into the game post-release...
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows Four Circle Interactive DearEsther: Landmark Edition PlayStation 4, Xbox One The Chinese Room Hue PlayStation...
Hangonit. It is a surrealist explorative game inspired by titles such as DearEsther and Proteus. The game was released 31 August 2015. The game was developed...