#Dear esther game trailer Pc

Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther combined beautiful environments with a breath-taking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption. On 14 February 2012, Dear Esther immersed players in its stunningly-realised world – a remote and desolate island somewhere in the Outer Hebrides.

#Dear esther game trailer Pc

The Chinese Room and publishers Secret Mode are pleased to announce they will celebrate the tenth anniversary of Dear Esther by making the 2012 narrative exploration game free to download from Dear Esther on 14 and 15 February.ĭear Esther’s tenth anniversary arrives just two weeks ahead of The Chinese Room’s latest tale, Little Orpheus, which arrives on PC and consoles on 1 March. As the island’s secrets are gradually revealed, players will piece together a tale which will remain with them long after the screen has faded to black. Fragments of letters appear throughout the island, weaving a complex narrative of both the recent and distant past. The game asks players to explore a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, assuming the role of a troubled man piecing together the chain of events which lead to his wife’s death. Rather than traditional gameplay, the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of a Hebridean island, of who you are and why you are there.įragments of story are randomly uncovered when exploring the various locations of the island, making every each journey a unique experience.

Dear Esther is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies.