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Tag Archives: Dear Esther
The Beginner’s Guide
The Beginner’s Guide (TBG) is an Explorable Story by Davey Wreden. Actually, TBG is more an Explorable Biography. Or, perhaps a look at game development. Or … or … look, it’s something, ok? TBG shows off various game experiments done … Continue reading
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Firewatch
A friend who was in the middle of playing Firewatch, and who had previously enjoyed Dear Esther, and Everybody’s Gone To the Rapture, recommended it to me. I was having a ‘grindy’ moment in Fallout 4, so I found it … Continue reading
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Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture (Rapture, from here on in) is a new game from The Chinese Room (TCR) who gave us Dear Esther (Esther). Some are calling it a spiritual successor to Esther, in that it takes the idea … Continue reading
Gone Home
After playing Dear Esther and To The Moon, I have been on the lookout for other good ‘story games’ – that is, games that primarily tell a story through the videogame medium. Some people don’t class these as games, given … Continue reading
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Dear Esther – P.S.
So let’s just acknowledge up front that I’m going to be changing from describing this as a game, to describing as a story in the blink of a punctuation mark. That way you can start confused and not have to … Continue reading
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To The Moon
After playing Dear Esther, I wasn’t really expecting to find a similar game so soon, and certainly not by accident. Not that Dear Esther and To The Moon (TTM) are the same type of game. Dear Esther is a slow … Continue reading
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Dear Esther
Apparently Dear Esther has caused a bit of controversy. This isn’t because it’s full of horrible violence or explicit sex, but because some don’t feel it qualifies as a game. I’m not going to delve into that particular argument. I … Continue reading
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