Summary
Dear Esther is a first-person game about love, loss, guilt and redemption. Driven by story and immersion rather than traditional mechanics, it’s an uncompromisingly emotional experience.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz / AMD Sempron 3600+ | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ |
| VRAM | 128 MB | 256 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| OS | Win Xp 32 | Win Xp 32 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 6600 / AMD Mobility FireGL T2 | nVidia GeForce 7600 GT 256MB / AMD Radeon HD 2900 GT |
| Direct X | DX 9 | DX 9 |
| HDD Space | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Game Analysis | The player progresses through the plot of Dear Esther via a series of voiced-over letter fragments to a woman named Esther. The game does not directly specify who the narrator is, but there are suggestions he is Esther's husband and that she is dead, killed in an automobile accident. These monologue fragments are triggered as the player reaches certain locations in the game, and are randomly selected for each given location. This random selection of voice-over parts causes a lack of coherency, and forces the player to draw his or her own conclusions. As the game progresses, the readings become more vague and start to contradict one another. Later in the game, the readings begin to allude to the story of Paul on the road to Damascus, which is also the subject of some of the graffiti found painted on the cliff walls. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo (2 * 2260) or equivalent | Intel i5-3470S (4 * 2900) or equivalent |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| OS | 10.7.5 - 10.12.1 | 10.7.5 - 10.12.1 |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 9400 (256 MB) | NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (1024 MB), Intel HD Graphics 4000 (1024 MB) |
| HDD Space | 2 GB available space | 2 GB available space |
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A nice mood piece that puts aesthetic and environment over gameplay, which can be to its own detriment by having such minimal interactivity. However, given that it doesn’t last very long it doesn’t overstay its welcome and feels like sitting down to watch a movie, albeit a very abstract one that can be left to a lot of interpretation.