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Dear Esther

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

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.
Dear Esther
Dear Esther 2012
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 2017

This page is for the original release. For the updated version, see Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.

General information

Official Dear Esther Website
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

This game is no longer available.
The original mod release can be downloaded from here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument[citation needed]

Increase movement speed

Bind key to increase movement speed[1] (retrieved)
  1. Open <path-to-game>\dearesther\cfg\userconfig.cfg
  2. Add the following code to the end of the file:
    bind 1 "de_playerspeed 100"
    bind 2 "de_playerspeed 200"
    bind 3 "de_playerspeed 300"
    bind 4 "de_playerspeed 400"
    bind "W" "+forward"
    bind "MOUSE1" "+forward"
    bind "MOUSE2" "+zoom"
    bind "MWHEELDOWN" "de_playerspeed 100"
    bind "MWHEELUP" "de_playerspeed 200"
    bind "MOUSE3" "de_playerspeed 400"
    
  3. Enable the developer console from the options menu.
  4. Toggle the console with ~, type in exec userconfig, and press Enter.
  5. In game, you can hold the left mouse button to move forward, mousewheel up to increase movement speed, mousewheel down to reset or use the number 1, 2, 3, 4 to adjust movement speed.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dearesther\cfg\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/dearesther/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203810/pfx/[Note 2]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dearesther\SAVE\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/dearesther/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games.

Video settings

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

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

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

Issues fixed

Purple and black broken textures

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

Linux version fails to launch on unsupported localizations

Instructions[2][3]

Run the game with the following command: LC_ALL=C ./Dear_Esther

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

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

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/203810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (203810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References