Completely new approach to video gaming

User Rating: 8.5 | Dear Esther PC
Dear Esther is a ghost story and many refrain from calling it a game.

It has no guns, no level ups and no action. It has absolutely nothing that most games have to offer and without even a sprint button, you will quickly assume this is just some sluggish boring waste of your time. But once you get into the game, the island's amazing scenery and the very interesting story the narrator brings you, you will want to play and finish it.

The narrator is maybe you, it might be your husband or brother, it might be someone else. Whatever you think, it will keep you occupied throughout the whole gameplay. The complexity of thought that the game brings is incredible. The narrative is rather poetic and details that the narrator mentions, with a lot of intertextual references, you won't notice the first time you play. The narrator appears with different dialogue at different locations each time you play so your conclusion as to what is happening will always be different.

Today's games mostly use graphical interfaces to simply have something to go along with the main gameplay. This game uses the graphics for the gameplay. You cannot do much other than walk. Interaction does not exist at least not in the traditional sense of the word. You are simply a person walking around a beautiful island listening to a story and observing everything around you.
Gameplay lasts for about 2 hours the first time you play. Since the story has a lot of details, you will probably want to play again to understand it completely. Due to the randomly generated narration, you will likely encounter confusion and the need to play it once more. This is something rarely any game can boast with. The replayability. The same path and yet so different every time.
It is short, it can appear boring, but it is unique and complete and for the price given, I believe everyone should experience this new style of video gaming!

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