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Dear Esther

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Dear Esther
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Developers
The Chinese Room
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows February 14, 2012
macOS (OS X) May 15, 2012
Linux June 10, 2013
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Dear Esther on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

General information

Official Dear Esther Website
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
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Humble Store
DRM-free
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Steam
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The original mod release can be downloaded from here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Increase movement speed

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203810/pfx/[Note 1]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203810/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games.

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Bulgarian
Simplified Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

VR support

Headsets State Notes
SteamVR
This game might be playable with the Revive Compatibility Layer (compatibility list).
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Use the Vireio Perception driver.
Windows Mixed Reality
This game might be playable with the Revive Compatibility Layer.
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse

Issues fixed

Purple and black broken textures

A generic fix for this issue can be found on our Source engine page.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel core 2 duo 2.4 GHz or higher Quad core 2.4 GHz or higher
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9 compliant video card with Shader model 3.0 support. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better (Pre-Sandybridge Intel graphics chipsets not supported)
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo Processor (2 GHz or better)
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References