Dear Esther overview

Overview

Dear Esther comes from The Chinese Room, Robert Briscoe and is published by Secret Mode. It arrived on Steam on an unlisted release date, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Dear Esther's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:38:36 UTC, with a tracked peak near 0. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 0% positive across 0 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Dear Esther is available in 1 languages including:

2 regional rating boards including dejus and steam germany

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Dear Esther has sold up to 459,000 units and has 3,967 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $2,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Dear Esther overview details

Dear Esther combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The Chinese Room Presents Little Orpheus! Wishlist Now! About the Game “A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.” 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 world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years. Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther fuses its beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption. Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it’s because it may just be all a delusion. What is the significance of the aerial -- What happened on the motorway -- is the island real or imagined -- who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here? The answers are out there, on the lost beach, the windswept cliffs and buried in the darkness of the tunnels beneath the island… Or then again, they may just not be, after all… Dear Esther is supported by Indie Fund. 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 uncompr…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Dear Esther is listed as a game with Price not available. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:38:36 UTC, a tracked peak of 0, and review score data when available.

Support and legal notes

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