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Dear Esther Coming to Consoles in September

Indie developer The Chinese Roomโ€™s first-person narrative Dear Esther is heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in just a few weeks. According to anย announcement…

Tori MorrowBy Tori MorrowAugust 26, 20162 Mins Read
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Indie developer The Chinese Roomโ€™s first-person narrative Dear Esther is heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in just a few weeks. According to anย announcement made today by publisher Curve Digital, we can expect the title to be released on September 20, 2016. The upcoming release is not without a slight name change, however. The console version of the game will be titled Dear Esther: Landmark Edition and will feature several gameplay updates, trophies, an enhancement in graphics, and a directorsโ€™ commentary from the original development team.

The minimal gameplay, however, remains the same.ย Your only objective isย toย explore aย strange,ย Hebridean island as you listen to a man reading letters to his wife, who is named Esther.ย The originalย was released in 2008 as a free-to-play modification. However, its commercial release did not come until 2012 for Linux, Mac, and PC and garnered aย wide varietyย praise. Despite its acclaim, though, many gamers were turned-off by Dear Estherย simply for the fact that it did not feel like a real “game”.

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Dear Esther was a controversial title at the time, but first person narrative games have become increasingly popular.

Narrative games have been increasingly popular in the last few years, especially the experimental first-person titles. Ones that come to mind areย Gone Homeย andย The Chinese Room’s most recent release, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture,ย which takes place in the fictional English village ofย Youghton, where all the residents have disappeared.

Despite the criticism, these type of games have you re-evaluate your expectations of narrative gameplay andย force you to takeย your time as you explore and watch theย story unfold.ย Dear Estherย is similar in that respect as well and has a beautifully haunting soundtrack to support it, butย likeย Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture,ย my experience was ultimately underwhelming. Hopefully with the new added touches to the console release of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition,ย I will feel differently.

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Tori is a writer and gamer originally from Vault 111, but now she resides in Chicago. She has an MFA in creative writing-fiction, runs primarily on coffee, and is an expert on AMC's The Walking Dead. Follow her on Twitter @torithatnerd.

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