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Dear Esther is free to keep on Steam right nowHappy birthday, dear Dear Esther
Happy birthday, dear Dear Esther
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition PC/Mac TrailerWatch on YouTube
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition PC/Mac Trailer
You have until 3pm on Wednesday the 16th toclaim a free copy of Dear Esther on Steam. It usually costs £8. This is the Landmark Edition, the 2017 Unity engine remake of the 2012 commercial remake of the 2008 Source engine mod.
My contribution (with Pip) to one of the many boring discussions surrounding the game is a tongue-in-cheek protestation thatDear Esther isn’t even a ‘walking simulator’, okay, because it’s too objective-driven, and calling it one does a disservice to many great aimless potter ‘em ups. Pip offered the feeling-out-a-definition description that it’s “a digital staging of a radio play, maybe”, which is great. But I’m grateful that Dear Esther paved the way for other walking simulators to look at that path and say, “Yeah but what if I ignored paths, and ditched the overwrought writing, and just wandered about, feeling a mood?”
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