85 people found this review helpful
15 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.0 hrs on record
Posted: Jun 24, 2012 @ 5:43pm
Updated: Sep 8, 2014 @ 2:20am

In Dear Esther, you'll wander beautiful environments with no interaction or objective while listening to soothing ambient music, with any hope of immersion ruined by pretentious narration where every disconnected, nonsensical reference is emo's first metaphor.

--SPOILERS--

Finally, after an entire grueling hour, you will discover the two redeeming qualities the game has to offer: its extremely short length and the fact, I'm pretty sure, you ultimately commit suicide.

I'd urge anyone planning on enduring this "experience" to enable the developer console in the options and increase your movement speed so you can kill yourself faster.
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15 Comments
ArtymisFF Aug 20, 2014 @ 11:16am 
I laughed out loud when I read this. I played Dear Esther hoping it would give me the feels like To The Moon. Boy I was wrong.
Sileno Jul 14, 2014 @ 7:51am 
XD cool review
RandalMcdaniel Apr 13, 2014 @ 11:21am 
Dear esther isn''t a benchmark lol
Walker☻//︻ --- Mar 7, 2014 @ 3:11pm 
this is not ga,e it is benckmark
Lone Wanderer Mar 7, 2014 @ 8:27am 
You arent ghost, lol. When you jump from the top of the beacon you will become a bird - you can see a shadow of a bird cast on the ground while you are flying toward paper boats.
Dio Feb 15, 2014 @ 11:30pm 
I guess you didn't figure out that you're a ghost at the end. So you don't really kill yourself.
flynnwhite1337 Dec 22, 2012 @ 10:09pm 
wow! sounds like this game is a masterpiece :P
Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel Nov 21, 2012 @ 8:04pm 
I find this review highly convincing.
GATS Nov 4, 2012 @ 6:28am 
No thanks, I don't need a game to experience suicide.
spin Jun 24, 2012 @ 11:47pm 
Yea the game is shit.