Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is an adventure developed by Rob Briscoe, released 20 September 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Mac. The main story takes about 1.2 hrs to finish.
What Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is an adventure game developed by Rob Briscoe and released in 2016. It was published by Curve Digital. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
'A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer.' 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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 67, across 95 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3.3 hrs, roughly 2.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 (2 * 2400), AMD Athlon X2 4200+ (2 * 2200) or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT (256 MB), AMD Radeon X1600 XT (256 MB). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition launched on 20 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Forza Horizon 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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