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I should do a Kickstarter for it, and then just give everyone copies of SIN: Episode 1 and claim that 'we only had time to implement the big tits on the villain'.

While not exactly the same (or in the district if same), this trailer for the 'combatless' Survival Horror "Outlast" looks rather spiffy.

75% off sale now finished for Dear Esther, but still at 50% off - that ends on Nov 27th.

Bloody lovely that.

I actually meant whether the island is like a spirit world. I'm assuming you play Esther and you're dead or in limbo. Why? A number of reasons but the best one is when you 'die' in the game the narrator whispers "come back".

Ahem, four years later, I have started playing this

Good innit? Creepy. Had to stop as I got to the caves for parenting and stuff. Will go back to it later

The caves bit boggled my mind as I realised that it's being generated by the same engine that was used for Half Life 2 and it's still capable of looking incredible.

27th April 2012, I apparently installed it. Just opened it for the first time. Rock on!

Bloody hell. So opening that for 'a quick peek' before sleep didn't work for the sleep part, did it? Goosebumps just going down now.

I swear I saw someone walk past a hole in the cliff face as I was walking down to the cave.

Hopefully I'll get to finish it tonight

Shudder. It seemed full of that sort of possibility. The first time I saw I got the willies.

The very first thing I did in the game was walk back off the launch and into the water. There was darkness with some very faint images of a lighthouse and the aerial, then a voice said "come back" and I was ok.

So, yeah, I was pretty creeped out right from the start.

I wish Sat was still around so I could say "In your face! This is out on consoles today"

And... reading through this thread tells me that I already own this on my PC! Wow.. I should get around to playing it.

Yup, it's been ported to Unity and released on Xbox One and PS4 today and is called Dear Esther: Landmark Edition -

http://dear-esther.com/?page_id=1547

This Unity port will also be made available for free to current PC and Mac owners of the game, but not for a few months.

Nearly 6 months later... I finished it!

That's the sort of game I love. Now I get to go and read other peoples interpretations.

Well done on completing it.

There's quite a bit of useful and interesting info on the Steam forum for the game:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/f ... php?f=1346

It's also worth re-playing the game as you get to see different pieces of dialogue and some of the placed objects change around. The game is very much open to interpretation which is why I love it so much.

forgot to post this the other day after playing Dear Esther. Damn, for a Source Engine Game, it sure is pretty.

Nice isn't it?

Actually, there's kind of a clue to the narrative in that and other similar images ............ but you need to look at it from slightly farther back when you're playing the game.