don't waste your money, and I'm glad I didn't have to waste mine. great design and execution with actually making a very pretty and visually impressing game the music is ambient, haunting, sad, and quite pleasant and the narration is okay.Ģ/10 - Watch it on YouTube if you're curious. What is has going for it is purely from an aesthetic POV. The whole 'game' is depressingly not fun. It begins on the desolate shore of an island, and gives you no clues about who you are or what’s. Jakobson builds the bothy in the hopes of eventually having enough property to marry, but dies two years after completing it. He is described by Donnelly as deriving from Scandanavian descent, and as the first habitual shepherder on the island.

Jakobson is a herder who lived on the island in the early 1700s. It's pedantic & pretentious its mechanics (how you interact with the environment) are intolerable the level/map layouts are poorly conceived and the story is unintelligible, unrelatable, and downright depressing. Dear Esther is a story, pure and simple: a haunting, introspective and obscure interactive story. Jakobson is one of the four main characters of the story. maybe I should give it another shot, as I have, since then, enjoyed plenty of other games in the 'genre'ĮDIT: Found my 9 year old 'review' of it:įinally played through Dear Esther last night. An Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 CPU is required at a minimum to run Dear. Although, that was 9 years ago since I played it. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 7770. This game was the reason I thought I didn't like the walking sim genre.

Dear esther does it work