Dear Esther
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Developers | |
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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 |
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 | |
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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
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]
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Increase movement speed
Bind key to increase movement speed[1] (retrieved) |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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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 |
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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 |
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Steam Cloud | Syncs save games. |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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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] |
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Run the game with the following command: |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | |||
Linux |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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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) | 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) | ||
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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). - ↑ 2.0 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.