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...
It seems Dear Esther has become so famous in the indiescene, it even has its own parody called Dear Esteban. The game was created in Unity, and it's available...
dear est...esteban
Dear Esther a fantastic mod for Half-Life 2 is out now on Desura.
original dear esther out now on desura
Just a quick update to let you know I have re-uploaded the original mod for you to download (my fault, should have been back up long ago) and that we...
just a quickie
The remake of the cult source mod Dear Esther will be released commercially in summer 2011.
dear esther remake to get commercial release
So in my last update I asked for your questions regarding the Dear Esther Remake, and today I have been sifting through them and have answered some of...
q&a + modty and new media!
I recently realised how much time has passed since my last update on here and so I thought I’d put together a small update to show a little bit of what...
slow and steady – a brief update
So it’s been a while, in fact it’s been almost 4 months since my last update, however, during this time I have been tirelessly working on the third...
a light at the end of the tunnel
So I hit a big milestone today, bringing the second level to alpha and subsequently reaching the half-way point in the project! It took me roughly two...
halfway there!
Just wanted to make a quick update to let you know things are progressing nicely with DE. The lack of updates lately was due to me taking a month off...
a quick update...
If you liked Dear Esther, then you might well like this: Dan Pinchbeck (writer/producer) and Jessica Curry (composer/audio designer) are presenting a...
live performance project by thechineseroom
Well it’s been a while since my last update, but be reassured I have not been idling during my absence! Today I can finally show you what I have been...
postcards from the hebrides…
Ghosts, Zombies, Vampires and other monster boggiewoggies. Halloween is a great time to get into the scarier movies and games to give yourself a good...
moddb halloween extravaganza!
The cult Half Life 2 mod picked up the 2009 IndieCade International Independent Game award for Best Story/World at the ceremony in LA last night.
dear esther wins best world/story at indiecade 2009
Time for another update I think, been a while actually (or at least it feels like that!). So here's a brief overview of what exactly has been going on...
land, sea and air
The cult Half Life 2 mod Dear Esther has been selected as a finalist in the 2009 IndieCade awards - Culver City, here we com!
dear esther selected for indiecade2009
Been another slow week this week; however I have managed to finish sculpting and painting the terrain for the first level and am now looking forward to...
dear esther remake - update 2
Hi everyone, My name is Robert Briscoe and as you may or may not have heard, I have taken it upon myself recently to ‘re-master' Dear Esther and bring...
dear esther update (remake)
A new interview with Dear Esther designer Dan Pinchbeck at Gamasutra
dear esther: gamasutra interview
Lewis Denby recently wrote a piece about Dear Esther which sums up the mods purpose quite nicely.
touched by the hand of mod: dear esther
Dear Esther is getting a full overhaul and rebuild by Robert Briscoe of LittleLostPoly
dear esther - complete overhaul
An updated version of the mod Dear Esther has just been released, including remastered sound, fixed terrain issues, extended caves sequence and new audio...
dear esther - updated version released
Details of changes to the new version of Dear Esther; plus how we'd love you to help us with some research based on the project...
new version update + research
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