I obviously looked around to do so, but didn't find any way in which that was possible (at the time; for the Humble Linux version).

Do you offhand know of any instructions on how to do this?

The graphics of the old version were already pretty (and ran well on most even older systems), has anything else changed?
Edit: Just read that it has been remade in Unity, makes me wonder even more why there is no Linux version.

I think it's okay, nothing groundbreaking but not bad if you have no aversion to walking simulators with storytelling.

I picked this game up on Steam a few years ago after hearing a number of people raving about it and comparing it to Miasmata. From start to finish I completed this "game" in 90 minutes which was both rather disappointing and fulfilling at the same time.

Let me expand upon that. First the good point; It has some nice graphics/visuals that it has been praised for. Ok, I can't think of anything else.

Now the disappointing stuff: As many have likely already said - this "game" isn't actually a game in any stretch of the imagination. It is a "visual novel" if one is kind, or more accurately a "walking simulator" to those who call it the way it is without sugar coating. It is essentially a walking simulator that you have no other interaction with the environment other than walking around lost on an island while a pretentious emotional discourse of poetry is narrated to you at trigger points set around the island at regular intervals.

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You walk around from the start to the finish linearly with no variation listening to boring poetry and then commit suicide at the end after 90 minutes.
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As for the fulfilling point - it was fulfilling when the torturous boredom came to an end after 90 minutes.

Unless you dawdle about a lot, Dear Esther takes about an hour and a half, maybe two hours to complete on your first go. Whether that makes it good value or not is entirely up to you, but these days I don't give games points based on their price-to-game-hours ratio. If I liked the game, no matter how short, it was worth however much I happened to pay for it.

Here is one of manuals how to do it (I presume you have the Steam version).

If you want it smaller make it less than 100 - try 90, then 80, etc... but I would recommend not going under 60.

Dear Esther is the Blair Witch Project of video games. A unique concept driven into the ground by terrible knock-offs and copycats.

...yay?

I will probably never pay money for this, and maybe I'll never bring myself to even acknowledge it as a game.
But I will say this: "Welcome on GOG, you just made a few people happier. Good job Chinese room."

Except there are plenty of walking simulators that did everything better then DE.

Here is a title i'm disappointed about. Being literally a walking simulator with no mechanics other than walking, i can't see this as something i want nor would ever want. I mean, maybe if it had a screen saver version where it's showing scenes generated on the fly, or a demo as a screen saver walking slowly through great environments, but there's no failstate (other than getting bored out of your mind and quitting).

This is one genre i really wasn't expecting nor wanting on GoG.

such as?

By the way, i hope the BWP games get released FINALLY with Nocturne!

It may be related that you cannot search for Dear Esther in the game list. Searching for "" or "[url=https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&amp;search=esther&amp;page=1]esther" gives... no results? Is it only my browser or another weird GOG bug?

You are correct, I have the same bug.
I have already submitted it to support, and seeing that I am not the only one having it, I hope the blue font guys will start looking into it.

Hm, I got the free upgrade on Steam, so I'll hold off on getting this here. Also, this kinda looks like something that could appear in a future GOG Connect event. >_>

The Stanley Parable/The Begginers Guide,Firewatch,Jazzpunk etc.