Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition playtime stats
42 Steam players on record have spent 1,230 hours in Dear Esther: Landmark Edition, 29 hours each on average; the median player has 1.1 hours. The top 10% have 4.6 hours or more, while 64% are still under two hours, inside Steam's refund window. Over the last 30 days 0.1% of active players played it, 6.6 hours in all, most of all on Sundays. A typical day of play lasts 3.3 hours.
Total playtime
= 1,230 hours total
across 42 players
Avg per player
median 1.1h
Avg day of play
per player, on days they play
Loyalty
of its players' Steam time · top game for 0 players
New players
first played it in the last 30 days
Achievements
avg unlocked · 10 players at 100%
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition over time
UTC days. Each line is scaled to its own range; hover a day for the values. Today is still in progress.
Trend
last 30 days vs the 30 beforeShare of active players
2 players of 2,919
0.1%
Share of hours played
6.6h in 30 days
0%
Hours per player
in the last 30 days
3.3h
Shares, not raw counts: more players join every week, so raw totals mostly show our own growth.
Weekday pattern
avg hours, UTCBusiest on Sundays, 565% above an average day.
Hours played per day
all players on record, UTC days · hover a dayDays played
2
Playtime on record
6.6h
Avg per day
3.3h
Biggest day
6.2h
Oct 18
Most players
1
Oct 5
Favorite day
Sunday
Top players
Full leaderboard- 1
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1,155h - 2
xxadonisxx
11h - 3
Castahallia6.2h - 4
Tony Montana6.1h - 5
crushed
4.6h - 6
duck2ducks4.5h - 7
MRcookie
4.1h - 8
Kuman
3.5h - 9
Brandvsbrand
3.4h - 10
dara iscariote3.4h
Top Steam Scores
first to 100% leads- 1Kuman100%290
- 2
Mardalon
100%290 - 3crushed100%290
- 4
LiGHTNiNG
100%290 - 5
- 6
Egglezos117 - 7Castahallia112
- 8
vh111 - 9
Rorik4191 - 10
butuz66
17 players still counting.
How long players stay
lifetime hours per player- Under 1h18 (43%)
- 1–10h22 (52%)
- 10–50h1 (2%)
- 50–100h0 (0%)
- 100–500h0 (0%)
- 500h+1 (2%)
64% of players have under 2 hours, inside Steam's refund window.
Top countries
by players on record- United States5 players0.5% of its players
Russia3 players3.1% of its players- Greece2 players22% of its players
India2 players11% of its players- Philippines1 player8.3% of its players
- Germany1 player0.5% of its players
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