ESSENCE
About
There is no memory and lost in the sea of stars, something is reaching for you.
Now it's time to wake up and explore this majestic and forgotten world, emerging out of the gloom and unfolding its branches towards your enlighten curiosity.
Open yourself to its exhilarating landscapes, forgotten thoughts of another time, surreal happenings and a mystery veiling a truth about this world.
Remember your being and remember your abilities. Wander freely through these lands and beyond to find yourself. And finally discover the truth, the past and the future of places, you never believed would exist...
ESSENCE is a surreal and atmospheric first-person exploration game.
This game is as much about exploring the different worlds and collecting lost and cryptic fragments of beautiful landscapes as discovering secret places filled with mysterious messages. Also, it is about learning new abilities that help you proceed further on otherwise hidden paths. The further you will go the more possibilities you will have to interact with the world and its surroundings.
The game has a narration, that will combine messages from different characters with a dense and diverse environmental storytelling. By uncovering all these places and messages you will experience an anomalous story that slowly leads you to one interwoven conclusion.
ESSENCE is a mesmerizing journey full of wonder in which you can lose yourself, diving deep in an atmosphere, filled with feelings about an ancient civilization, arcane technology and lost philosophy, a journey that will change the way you see exploration ...
See you soon,
Traveler
Now it's time to wake up and explore this majestic and forgotten world, emerging out of the gloom and unfolding its branches towards your enlighten curiosity.
Open yourself to its exhilarating landscapes, forgotten thoughts of another time, surreal happenings and a mystery veiling a truth about this world.
Remember your being and remember your abilities. Wander freely through these lands and beyond to find yourself. And finally discover the truth, the past and the future of places, you never believed would exist...
ESSENCE is a surreal and atmospheric first-person exploration game.
This game is as much about exploring the different worlds and collecting lost and cryptic fragments of beautiful landscapes as discovering secret places filled with mysterious messages. Also, it is about learning new abilities that help you proceed further on otherwise hidden paths. The further you will go the more possibilities you will have to interact with the world and its surroundings.
The game has a narration, that will combine messages from different characters with a dense and diverse environmental storytelling. By uncovering all these places and messages you will experience an anomalous story that slowly leads you to one interwoven conclusion.
ESSENCE is a mesmerizing journey full of wonder in which you can lose yourself, diving deep in an atmosphere, filled with feelings about an ancient civilization, arcane technology and lost philosophy, a journey that will change the way you see exploration ...
See you soon,
Traveler
System requirements for macOS
Minimum:
- OS: 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 | AMD FX-6100 | or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series | AMD Radeon HD 7770 | or equivalent
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: 10.11
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350 | or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | AMD Radeon R9 290 | or better
- Storage: 5 GB available space
System requirements for PC
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 | AMD FX-6100 | or equivalent
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series | AMD Radeon HD 7770 | or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350 | or better
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | AMD Radeon R9 290 | or better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Recommended Laptop GPUs are NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960m | or equivalent/better
System requirements for Linux
Minimum:
- OS: Ubuntu 14 64-bit or Steam OS
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 | AMD FX-6100 | or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series | AMD Radeon HD 7770 | or equivalent
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Ubuntu 17 64-bit or Steam OS
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350 | or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | AMD Radeon R9 290 | or better
- Storage: 5 GB available space
ESSENCE reviews and comments
First off, the reviews left on Steam (which ultimately seems to have caused the platform to pull it from being purchased), are overally harsh by a long shot. That being said, this is still a flawed experience. There are definitely a few bugs (game crashes on alt+tab, graphical errors), but the main issue is just getting boring after a while. The beautiful graphics are a huge appeal, but that wears off after a while, right around the time the gameplay becomes non-linear. This really just hurts the experience, the game would be much better off as a linear game. The story doesn't make sense at all either. Overall a decent walking simulator but definitely needs some love.