The Pilgrimage [v2.10] [messman] Best 【2025】

For fans of Dear Esther who thought it was too optimistic. For players who spend twenty minutes in character creators. For anyone who has ever felt that the act of choosing a path is more exhausting than walking it.

In v2.09, reaching the Spire gave you a static screen and the text: "You arrive. Nothing is there. This was the point." the pilgrimage [v2.10] [messman]

v2.10 introduces a branching path around the halfway point—the "Heretic’s Causeway," a narrow bridge of fossilized bones that loops back to the start rather than progressing. Most players will avoid it. Those who don't discover the patch’s secret thesis: the pilgrimage is a lie. For fans of Dear Esther who thought it was too optimistic

Lumen / 10 (Review in progress—I haven’t decided yet. Please check back in three to five business days.) Most players will avoid it

F.R. Vales, Independent Interactive Fiction Critic