Dear Esther to be Released on Valentine’s Day for PC & MAC
“A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.”
The teaser trailer released on January 17, 2012 for Dear Esther is nothing short of breathtakingly stunning. The Thechineseroom in collaboration with Robert Briscoe at Littlelostpoly came up with a non-linear story like no other, throwing the player into the vast atmosphere and gorgeous landscapes as you try to capture lose ends to a story you didn’t know existed.
Dear Esther takes place on a completely deserted island named Hebrides, thus embarking the player into a unique store of love, loss, guilt and redemption. Monologue fragments are triggered when players traverse over specific areas of the game, and even then those precious pieces of narration are chosen at random. While playing Dear Esther we are forced to recognize whether the answers we have sought out are real and tangible, or illusions of the island. Slight clues can be found painted on the walls of caves in code, yet you are forced to internalize the information you’ve received as the voice-over narrations start to contradict what you are seeing. You must come up with your own conclusions, disregarding what you have been told.
Who is Esther, and why did she bring you here? Those questions may or may not be answered for you when Dear Esther releases to Windows PC and MAC users via Steampower on February 14, 2012.
Key features:
Every play-through a unique experience, with randomly generated audio, visuals and events.
Explore Incredible environments that push the Source engine to new levels of beauty.
A poetic, semi-randomised story like you’ve never experienced in a game before.
Stunning soundtrack featuring world-class musicians.
An uncompromisingly inventive game delivered to the highest AAA standards.
System Requirements (WINDOWS)
Minimum:
OS:Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB, Shader model 2.0 or higher
DirectX®: dx90c
Hard Drive: 2 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
System Requirements (MAC)
Recommended:
OS:Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz or higher
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:DirectX 9 compatible video card with Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
DirectX®:dx90c
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
