Dear Esther

Has anyone heard of this game at all? It's supposed to be pretty short, and basically exploration to keep the narrative going. There are puzzles but it sounds like you don't have to actually do the puzzles to keep progressing. It all takes place on an island and it looks beautiful to say the least.

It's available for purchase on Steam tomorrow for $9.99. I think I'll buying it for sure.

Official Site

PC Gamer Review

Steam page with trailer and screenshots.

I've seen it on the Notgames Festival in Cologne last year. Like the name says, it was an exhibition of games that are actually not games. I did not play it, but I've seen it running, it looked pretty interesting.

As much as I understood you have no influence on how the game progresses. I think it's much more an audiovisual experience than actually a game. But if you try it, let us know what exactly it is.

RockPaperShotgun has a review of it. (The frontpage features Botanicula!)

There's a thread around here on Gameboomers somewhere. Here it is.

Gil.

Interesting. I'm sure I'm going to love this since if you give me something dark and pretty to walk around in, I'm usually very happy with that.

I'll be sure to come back after I've "played" it.


Edited to say: traveler, thank you! I did search on here and came up with nothing. I must be doing something wrong. *lol*

PS Hooray for Botanicula!

Looks beautiful!

Lol! Well, they'd only have a trickle of sales if they billed it as an art experience, Tomer. "Game" at least gets people to look at it and decide they might like to have it. Or not.

I personally don't care for games like Myst...or experiences or whatever, so that wouldn't be an incentive for me. Not a lonely-landscape or puzzle-mad person.

Well, fui! You edited your post and now mine doesn't make any sense! If it ever did.

Here's the Kotaku review.

Gil.