Our game of the week is an indie interactive fiction that many claim isn't a game at all. But why would we want to turn it away?

The games garnered substantial attention in the video games press, in part because it was controversial to consider them games in the first place.

Dear Esther is a terrible video game. Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised ...

Dear Esther spins an intriguing narrative, leaving you to decipher not only the outcome, but if this is even a game. Dear Esther is not a video game; at least, not in the traditional sense. In ...

With some hindsight, is Dear Esther really a video game? Or is it a walking simulator? And does any of that really bloody matter?

Dear Esther is a narrative adventure game in which players explore an island in the Scottish Hebrides as an anonymous narrator reads fragments of a series of letters sent to a woman called Esther.

A beautiful experiment that's a must-play for anyone interested in what can be achieved when you abandon video game convention.

The indie smash hit Dear Esther is an unconventional, beautiful and enthralling mystery.

Not every video game is about fighting enemies and solving puzzles. In a game like Dear Esther, the whole video game experience is a journey of lone exploration, poetic prose, and the pulse of a ...

Not every video game is about fighting enemies and solving puzzles. In a game like Dear Esther, the whole video game experience is a journey of lone exploration, poetic prose, and the pulse of a ...

Dear Esther is a ghost story told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional gameplay, the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are ...