The game's soundtrack was written by composer Jessica Curry , and the voice of the narrator was performed by Nigel Carrington. Briscoe and thechineseroom worked in parallel on the game's remake, with much of the level design completed solely by Briscoe based on concept art produced by Ben Andrews.
Carrington again provided voice acting for the script, which was extended for the remake, and the re-orchestration of the soundtrack was again composed by Curry. Funding for the redevelopment was provided by an investment from the Indie Fund. Within six hours of the remade release on Steam, over 16, units had been sold, allowing the developers to pay back the full Indie Fund investment. Within the first week, 50, units had been sold.
There is a big debate whether Dear Esther truly is a game or just a project of art, making it a difficult task for critics to review the game. Writing for Honest Gamers, reviewer Lewis Denby praised the game's original tone, saying "Dear Esther taps into an emotion that few games dare to approach: un happiness" and stated that Curry's soundtrack created "an impressively ethereal atmosphere".
Despite commendations for its premise and story, the original mod free version release of Dear Esther received complaints of poor level design and numerous glitches in moving about the terrain. On the forums for Dear Esther, there is a high amount of personal experiences by players who sometimes provide their own interpretation of the story. There are also a lot of players either giving their compliments as well as players expressing their disappointment.
Dear Esther Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Recent blog posts Forum. Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther fuses its beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption. What is the significance of the aerial -- What happened on the motorway -- is the island real or imagined -- who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here?
The answers are out there, on the lost beach, the windswept cliffs and buried in the darkness of the tunnels beneath the island… Or then again, they may just not be, after all… Dear Esther is supported by Indie Fund.
Key features: Every play-through a unique experience, with randomly generated audio, visuals and events. Explore Incredible environments that push the Source engine to new levels of beauty.
A poetic, semi-randomised story like you've never experienced in a game before. Stunning soundtrack featuring world-class musicians. An uncompromisingly inventive game delivered to the highest AAA standards. Soundtrack Jessica Curry's haunting and beautiful soundtrack to Dear Esther, now available on Steam, has been a hit with gamers and critics alike. Reviewers have said ""Curry's score reflects the player's feelings without oppressively instructing them. It's the ultimate achievement of composition.
The soundtrack was shortlisted for the Excellence in Audio award at the Independent Games Festival System Requirements Windows. See all. Customer reviews. Overall Reviews:. Recent Reviews:. Review Type. All 6, Positive 4, Negative 1, All 6, Steam Purchasers 3, Other 2, All Languages 6, Your Languages 4, Customize.
Date Range. To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar. In doing this, Dear Esther becomes less about what those connections might mean in a symbolic sense and more about the meaning behind the work trying to make those connections.
Dear Esther is an unnerving work. It removes nearly all agency from the player save looking and moving. There are signs of life and the artifacts of someone who went to a great deal of effort to create paintings and shrines and broken phrases all over the island, yet there is no one but us. The narrator switches tenor and persona multiple times throughout the game, sometimes within the same short passage.
But of course even if it were true, it changes and signifies nothing. It would relieve the tension of you know not what. Dear Esther is about the search for meaning. That was so senseless act as to break his entire sense of a world with meaning. He visits Paul in some hope of understanding why he did what he did. Desperate, he retreats to an uninhabited island and warns off all potential visitors in the time honored way of the place by cutting into the rock to create parallel white lines.
He takes the history of the place and makes it his own. He leaves tribute to the hermit who may or may not have existed, but soon he becomes the hermit. He creates maps like Donnelly, or is he Donnelly?
Is any of what he said true or useful? The island grants him no answers. And so he casts himself off the top of the radio tower.
Except, he begins his journey anew at the lighthouse. He haunts the island as he now begins his repeated journeys going over the same false, meaningless data he possessed in life.
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