To be fair, the one thing Dear Esther has going for it in my opinion is that it's pretty.
A lot of people seem to like it, though, so there must be something good about it. To me, it was just metaphors within metaphors and slowly walking around for an hour and a half. I guess I was hoping the story would be somewhat interesting or that it would have some sort of emotional resonance, but it was just too dull.
Hmm, I don't know. IGN doesn't have Bashcraft.
I can't believe I used to read IGN regularly at one point. Their television reviews were the shallowest things every written. "This thing happened, then this thing happened, and at the end of the episode this thing happened. It was okay. 6/10." But that's IGN for you, I guess - critical thinking is strictly forbidden.