In fact, in an adventure game that lacks puzzles, I’d venture a guess and say that the biggest challenge you’ll face is piecing together these chunks of narrative and coming to your own conclusion as to what’s happened to the narrator and Esther. But, given how incoherent his narration is, it’s also unclear as to whether you’re playing the narrator, if you’re someone who is following in his footsteps, or if the island is real or a dream. You’ll also start to pick up some of the history of the island and the narrator’s reasons for going there alone. It’s difficult to not venture into spoiler territory given how short Dear Esther is (or how ambiguous its story), but you get the impressions early on that there was an unfortunate car accident with a drunk driver, something that continues to haunt the narrator as you explore more of the island and continue your ascent towards the tower. The game’s story is told in random bits and pieces by an unnamed narrator, in the manner of a letter written to his love, a woman named Esther. Dear Esther is set on a Hibredian island off the coast of Scotland, long since abandoned by the shepherds and farmers who used to live there and inhabited solely by a radio tower and its single, blinking red light.
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