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Jacobson died on the island a hundred years before, a victim to syphilis, and his infection drove him to mania. Along with this, Donnelly is fixated on a man named Jacobson, a man who wrote the original history of the island.

Before the game, Donnelly has done a number of strange things: burning all of his belongings, painting religious quotes and scientific diagrams all over the island, and throwing all of his letters to Esther into the ocean. The lines between reality and hallucination begin to blur for him–drugs could be involved. Donnelly, sometime after this, goes to an island that has particular meaning for him and his wife. His wife, Esther, was killed in a car accident. I have only played it through one time, though I plan on doing it more, and this is the story as I understood it. That means that you get snippets from each story, and it really makes each playthrough of the game different.

There are three scripts, and at each moment where the narrator speaks, the game picks from one of those scripts and delivers some text from it. Check it out.)Īs faithful readers will know, I posted a transcript of the Dear Esther trailer and some thoughts about it a while back. I bought the game on release, and I just finished it a few minutes ago, so I thought that I would write about the game immediately.ġ.

I have made another post about this game, and I basically changed everything I thought in point #1 below. THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR DEAR ESTHER IN THIS POST.