Dear Esther is not a game. It is an interactive experience. It's also quite depressing and - despite some beautiful visuals - quite dull.

More of an art experiment, "Dear Esther" has you following in the footsteps of a would-be suicide as he mournfully regrets the loss of his deceased wife. It's neat how the game randomly picks parts of the narrative to play to you as you wander the moors; no run through will get exactly the same experience. Unfortunately, that narrative is dry and uninteresting. The moors are pretty but there's nothing to do there except marvel at the graphics. And the end is entirely predictable.

Frankly, I'd have been better off just looking at the screenshots.

Dear Esther is not a game. It is an interactive experience. It's also quite depressing and - despite some beautiful visuals - quite dull. More of an art experiment, "Dear Esther" has you following in the footsteps of a would-be suicide as he mournfully regrets the loss of his deceased wife. It's neat how the game randomly picks parts of the narrative to play to you as you wander the moors; no run through will get exactly the same experience. Unfortunately, that narrative is dry and uninteresting. The moors are pretty but there's nothing to do there except marvel at the graphics. And the end is entirely predictable. Frankly, I'd have been better off just looking at the screenshots.