Dear Esther gets an official launch trailer.
The Chinese Room's Dear Esther goes free on Steam to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this foundational title.
Eh.
I mean free is free, but I found this to be a boring slog.
Not to mention this remasters actually made the game look worse in multiple areas.
I did quite like their A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture though.
On Valentine's Day a decade ago, Dear Esther went from a Source Engine mod to a full-fledged indie game, catalyzing the "walking sim" genre. How does it measure up today?
"The China-based indie games publisher Secret Mode and Brighton-based (the UK) indie games developer The Chinese Room, are today very pleased to announce that they will celebrate the tenth anniversary of "Dear Esther" by making the genre-defining 2012 narrative exploration game free to download from February 14th to February 15th via Steam." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Consider me intrigued. :)Beautiful music, phenomenal writing, and gorgeous visuals.
What exactly is this game about?
Man I remember when this was just being made on moddb like 2-3 years ago and I tested the versions the team would put out. This mod has come a long way since then and here I am now waiting for the full version.
That this is wholly based on the Source engine. If modders could do to an engine like this at it's current state, imagine what Valve could do being the sole developers of it.
Now I know why Gabe says he doesn't want to a next-gen engine, considerably if the potential is more capable than this.
The gameplay narrator mechanic is brilliant I'm surprised no developer has tried to implement it one way or another.
none of you cannot like this.