The Chinese Room

The strange case of the un-sequel: dumping all of the mythos, gameplay elements and moddability that made The Dark Descent a success, the Dear Esther guys introduced Frictional's HPL2 engine to their own vision of adventure: a stroll through narration with buttons to push. A radical, disturbing experience with multiple levels of interpretation...

“A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.”

Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years. Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther fuses it’s beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption.