Has anyone else played this game? I did my first playthrough of it yesterday with no previous information about it except that it is an exploration game where a story gets told to you.
I was totally blown away. I recently played Proteus, which is also an exploration experience but with a completely different tone and no "story" to suss out. I couldn't stop thinking about Dear Esther all day yesterday afterwards.
I've recorded a full playthrough and will be working on editing and publishing it in four parts. Once that's done I plan on doing a full English major style textual analysis of the game. My [very] tentative idea is that the island represents different stages of grief. But that seems a bit too obvious? I have to go back and look at the narrations and do another playthrough (although I now know that some of the lines you get fed can vary, though others always pop up in the same places).
Basically, this game/experience has lodged itself in my brain and I can't stop picking at it. It seems like something hubski would enjoy and I want to hear other peoples' interpretations of Dear Esther.