Dear Esther released in 2016, four years after its initial release on PC.
It's a walking simulator, and honestly, that's all you do. You walk around an island that's completely isolated. While walking, there's a narration going on. A man is reading letters to his deceased wife, her death is revealed throughout the story.
There's no direction and it's not always obvious if you're going the right way. You only really know you're headed the right way when the narrator starts to talk. It's a very short game that's full of just walking, sound like your thing?
The acting is really good, the actor done a great job at making the dialogue interesting and worth listening to. The map is well designed, the grassy fields, the dark caves and beach side areas look fantastic. The design is easily the game's strongest point.
The walking speed was ridiculously slow, there's no way to speed it up, and it's very frustrating. The game is way too short, and by the end of it, it doesn't feel like it was really worth playing. The walking speed is probably so slow so the game lasted longer. I also found the ending really strange, not sure if others found that, but it left me baffled.
Very short and only moderately interesting. If you can get it for a very cheap, then it's worth thinking about getting.
5.3/10
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