Gaming Culture

Dear Esther: you’re not a real game at all.

If you’ve not played Dear Esther yet, you really should. But before you do, the most important thing to know is that it’s not a game. You buy it through Steam, install it the same way and load it up to a familiar Half Life menu, then you use the familiar WASD to walk around.

Competitive RPG Components

Competitive RPGs take a few different forms. The newer variant is Defense of the Ancients, which is characterized by picking from a pool of characters and leveling it up over the course of a single round.