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Genres: Adventure, Art

$9.99 Including tax.
OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64 Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz or higher Memory: 1GB XP / 2GB Vista Graphics: DirectX 9 compliant video card with Shader model 3.0 support. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better (Pre-Sandybridge Intel graphics chipsets not yet supported) DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 2 GB HD space Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
OS: MAC OS X 10.6.7 or higher Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better) Memory: 2GB Hard Disk Space: At least 2 GB of Space Video Card: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000
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thechineseroom

 

thechineseroom is an independent game studio based in Brighton, UK. We make first person games. These include the cult indie hit Dear Esther. We are currently developing two new games: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Both are due this year. Read more about them by clicking on the pictures. You can find out more about us by following the links below. You can return to this page at any point by clicking on the logo in the top left of the screen. http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/

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Dear Esther by thechineseroom

This game is DRM-free

"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, award winning, 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 its beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption.

Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it’s because it may just be all a delusion.

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…

 

How to Play

Dear Esther is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies.

Rather than traditional game-play the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are and why you are here.

Fragments of story are randomly uncovered when exploring the various locations of the island, through both the environment and the voice narrative, offering clues to the tragic events that bought you to the island as well as the history of the island itself, it’s past inhabitants, and the various tragedies and misfortunes which have also plagued them throughout its cursed past.