A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer. Dear Esther is a ghost story told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional gameplay, the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are and why you are here. Fragments of story are randomly triggered by moving around the environments, making every telling unique. Features a stunning, specially commissioned soundtrack. Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it's because it may just be all a delusion. What is the significance of the aerial - What happened on the motorway - is the island real or imagined - who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here? The answers are out there, on the lost beach and the tunnels under the island. Or then again, they may just not be, after all...

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dissonance
dissonance Aug 24 2009, 4:04am says:

Holy shit, this is incredible.

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Leon_Kilean
Leon_Kilean Aug 24 2009, 4:08am says:

Thats really awesome!
Really looking forward to this..

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Varsity
Varsity Aug 24 2009, 4:27am says: Online

Fantastic! Only one thing I'd change: Developer.valvesoftware.com

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c3lhas
c3lhas Aug 24 2009, 4:44am says:

Excelent quality.

Great job!

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MP81
MP81 Aug 24 2009, 8:17am says:

Absolutely incredible - such a nice job there. It looks so...real!

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Stugs
Stugs Aug 24 2009, 8:39am says:

Woah..... AWESOME!!

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy Aug 24 2009, 9:05am says:

Jesus christ, best cliffs i have ever seen !!!

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KernCore
KernCore Aug 24 2009, 12:23pm says:

Oh my god... first I thought this is a real picture... but then I saw your link in the description... Epicly awesome! I love the difference!

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spellman23
spellman23 Aug 24 2009, 1:27pm says:

Whoa. Really really nice. This shows the limits of the engine. How is the rendering load, though?

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Firebringer
Firebringer Aug 24 2009, 4:03pm says:

Wow, that looks real! I thought it was a real picture first, than I saw the link in the description!

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Karn2
Karn2 Aug 24 2009, 6:25pm says:

I just came

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Ballsopt
Ballsopt Aug 24 2009, 10:34pm says:

HOLY MOLEY.

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[RnL]Ryan_C
[RnL]Ryan_C Aug 24 2009, 10:40pm says:

Oh shit! AMAZING work! So photoreal! This is the Source engine?

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Argoon
Argoon Aug 25 2009, 1:20pm says:

Amazing indeed!! :o

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Piuneer
Piuneer Aug 30 2009, 9:03pm says:

How'd you get the HL3 engine already?! :P

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Killer_man_1996
Killer_man_1996 Nov 11 2009, 4:01pm says:

is this real life???

lol no words to describe this image from the Source Engine just beautiful...

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Work-in-progress images from the Dear Esther Remake (see www.littlelostpoly.co.uk/devblog for more info)

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