Just finished playing Dear Esther

[Damascus Rose]

The biggest problem with this "game" is probably that it is advertised as a game (It's clearly not a game). I have only played the HL2 version many moons ago and some valuable brandwidth that got wasted and an hour of wasted time. I'm surprised that they actually made a full-fledged release of this.

Also, one thing that bugs me: If it was an experiment all along, just to the see the reaction and who's gonna buy it and who's not, then why did they create this when they could've advertised the source mod instead? It's the exact same thing, except it ain't pretty.

On the contrary I believe it clearly is a game. You start it up, create a save, load it, and progress through the world and story yourself. And I believe the full game was made because Robert Briscoe decided to do an overhaul of it, it's on the website http://dear-esther.com/?page_id=2