This game is my addiction.

I make games for a living, so problem solving on my free time sound like hell. But more than any other game, this game gives me that "just 5 more minutes" feeling over and over until it's 5 AM. Maybe because things are difficult enough that makes me feel like I accomplished something when it works, but easy enough for me not to give up.

I don't have that many hours in this game just because of sheer discipline. If not for that, I would hardly play anything else.

It's even better with a friend on multiplayer.

10/10

NO SPOILERS: I'm generally one to enjoy artsy games, but the story and themes of this one did nothing for me. Reading the reviews, I'm surely in the minority, but the story felt very forced in its pursuit to make me feel sad, and it wasn't effective to me. I felt like I had just watched an average movie student final project, very eager to make me feel things, but not sure why or how. The blinking mechanic was interesting though.

Acabei de terminar este jogo... e não sei muito bem o que pensar (ou escrever) sobre ele...

O que posso dizer é que este não é um jogo "normal", onde você tem um objetivo claro, mas sim um experimento que pode mexer muito com as suas emoções e te deixar bem pensativo por algum tempo.

Assim como The Stanley Parable (o jogo anterior do criador deste jogo) quanto menos você souber sobre o jogo melhor será a sua experiência jogando-o.

Este não é um jogo para todo mundo, não acredito que você irá "se divertir" jogando ele, mas acredito que sairá confuso e profundamente tocado. De que maneira for.

Sério, só joga este jogo. Se você gosta de mecânicas diferentes e/ou já fingiu ser o Neo do Matrix este jogo é para você.

SUPER recomendado. Verdadeiramente HOT!

Ainda está lendo isto? Ok, deixe-me ver o que posso fazer para te recomendar o jogo mais ainda:

• O modo "história" dura cerca de 4 ou 5 horas, mas você irá querer jogar as fases de novo e de novo e de novo...
  
• Mesmo se enjoar das fases principais, existem diversos modos e desafios adicionais que mudam muito o jogo, como o modo KATANONLY (somente Katana) que mudam bastante a maneira de jogar o jogo
  
• Estilo artístico perfeito para o jogo
  
• KATANAS!
  
• SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT. SUPER HOT.

I really like "interactive stories" games, and with Dear Esther being a highly acclaimed game of said genre, loving Dear Esther seemed like a no brainer for me. But unfortuntely, that never really happened. I tried to understand why a game that seemed to have been made for me ended up being such a disapointment. In further analysis, one point that sticked was that trough my whole playtrough, it seemed like the game was building up to "the good part". Don't get me wrong, I didn't expect and or want Dear Esther to be anything like an action game or something, I expected and wanted it to be a game telling an interesting story and confusing story, but at every second of my playtrough the game always felt like it was building up to something. That something eventually appeared, but it's tenure was too quick and the "something" was not very interesting. Of course, there are good things in the game, specially in the visuals part, (some scenaries were absolutely gorgeous) but unfortunately, the bad outdoes the good in this game for me.

Maybe I expected something too different from Dear Esther from what it actually is, maybe it wasn't made for me to like, but regardless, it didn't do it for me.