Dear esther release date mod#

We hope it gets you thinking about the creative opportunities that lie just outside the established rules of game ‘genres’.īut most importantly – we hope you enjoy the experience.Released ten years ago today, Dear Esther is a landmark indie title. We are really pleased to have brought Dear Esther: Landmark Edition to PlayStation 4. That said, it’s honestly been a joy to revisit Dear Esther, we’re really proud of what we’ve made and it’s marvellous to see how it influenced what we’ve gone on to create since. As developers, we are so laser-focused on completing and shipping our current games we don’t have time to think about our previous ones, and when we do, it’s usually just about problems that may have cropped up after launch. It’s this same philosophy that we carried over to Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture.Ĭoming back to Dear Esther has been a strange experience. We wanted it to be as precise and immersive as the best of them, even if it lacked the guns. We aimed for that in our own way with Dear Esther – to try and create something in the same design space as shooters. It’s a non-linear narrative that’s left open for you to think about and interpret your own way.įor us, Dear Esther was a project to explore the limits of what a first-person shooter could be and we drew inspiration from Doom and System Shock. I’m a huge fan of these two in particular, they’re precise, they know their design philosophy and hooks extremely well. The meaning of all this is for you to uncover through signs and symbols scattered across the island. You’ll hear a voice reading fragments of letters as you venture across the windswept cliffs, you’ll see shapes in the distance that’ll be there one moment and gone the next. The remote places you’ll explore might not be threatening but they’re haunted nonetheless. It’s about love, loss and redemption about a car crash, a hermit and an island that may be real or just a dream.īecause each fragment of story is randomly selected, every playthrough offers new insights, but raises more questions. It’s hard to describe the story of Dear Esther simply. One question we always get asked is: “What actually is Dear Esther?” The Landmark Edition sees the island remastered in Unity with a directors’ commentary and includes those all-important Trophies too. What we’ve created is Dear Esther: Landmark Edition and it’s available on PlayStation 4. In the wake of this we wanted to bring our game to a new home on PlayStation with new features for console players.

Since then Dear Esther has become a seminal title for some players and helped kick off a wave of ‘walking simulator’ games.

Dear esther release date mod#

This tale of a desolate Scottish island started as a Half-Life 2 mod before getting a commercial PC release in 2012. Four years before Rapture, we launched Dear Esther, a game that would go on to have a big impact on how we craft our games. Rapture told the story of how an apocalyptic event affected just one small English village and the tales of the normal people caught up in this extraordinary event. You might know us from last year’s Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture on PlayStation 4. Hi everyone, I’m Dan Pinchbeck from The Chinese Room.