The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: By purchasing the game, you actually get two games now: 1) The original The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, 2) The Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux. Please see The Astronauts website for details.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game that focuses entirely on exploration and discovery. It contains no combat or explosions of any kind. If our game leaves any scars, we hope you won’t be able to see them.
You play the game as Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter. Realizing the boy is in grave danger, Paul arrives at Ethan’s home of Red Creek Valley, where things turn out to be even worse than he imagined. Ethan has vanished in the wake of a brutal murder, which Paul quickly discerns might not be the only local murder worth looking into.
Inspired by the weird fiction (and other tales of the macabre) from the early twentieth century, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter aims to significantly evolve immersive storytelling in games. While it features a private detective and quite a few mental challenges, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is not an especially puzzle-ridden game. Our focus is on atmosphere, mood, and the essential humanity of our characters.
Still, the discoveries won’t happen on their own, or without your help. Using both Paul’s supernatural skill of being able to communicate with the dead, and your own powers of observation, you will discover the mystery behind a trail of corpses, the roots of a dark ancient force lurking in Red Creek Valley, and the fate of a missing boy.
Explore and interact with the beautiful yet ominous world of Red Creek Valley, which was created with the use of revolutionary photogrammetry technology that allows for nearly photorealistic environments.
Communicate with the dead and see how they died in order to gather clues that help you piece together the truth behind Ethan’s disappearance -- and the fate of his family.
Experience, in non-linear fashion, a story that combines the pleasures of pulp, private eye, and horror fiction, all of it inspired by writers such as Raymond Chandler, Algernon Blackwood, Stefan Grabinski, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Conduct the investigation on your own terms and at your own pace. Although there are a few scary bits in the game, players will have no need for sedatives. Our game is less about terror and more about clammy unease.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 9Kreviews | 88% | — | $3.2M |
| $19.99 | 8.4Kratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
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I love the concept for this game. Most of the game is a walking simulator with a deep mystery story. I love how the story is both mysterious and still interesting. Exploration is very slow and calm. Story is good if you can understand it. Its just a bit expansive and a bit short. (2-4h) 9/10
Una piccola gemma scoperta per caso, un mistero che avvolge una famiglia in una località pittoresca. Il gioco è molto semplice, e la durata è breve (finito in un pomeriggio)...ma se preso scontato vale la pena. Investigare su qualcosa che non è quello che sembra all'apparenza, dato che c'è del soprannaturale dai toni lovecraftiani ma anche fantascientifici. Una pecca che non sono riuscito a spiegarmi è il fatto che a meno che non smanettate un pò con i controlli grafici (motion blur, FOV, crosshair e movimento della camera) può dare un pò di giramento di testa, ed è la prima volta che mi capita in un gioco in prima persona, fortunatamente sono riuscito ad aggiustare come detto le impostazioni in modo da poter godermi l'avventura che tralaltro è ambientata in uno scenario a dir poco artistico Consigliato
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish*, Czech*languages with full audio support
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Super Siel !!!
Good game - I've definitely played more of the redux version!
This game is amazing. Forgot to review it back in the day when I played it in 2016. Buy it.
I forgot about this game for almost 10 years, mocked it for being a walking simulator with GRAFIX(tm) that even though I played a bit, I was stumped on really what to do that it almost wanted me to not play it. I got goaded into streaming it for some friends a random night and guess what, after finally realizing what I needed to do, it was actually one of the most refreshing takes on an investigative game I've seen in a while. Not the best or ascending great heights but something different from the usual hum-drudge. I feel like this is one of those games where someone might say "don't look up anything about the game, just jump in" but I would say, "you are better off looking up a guide to find your footing". I don't want to spoil anything at all, so if you do go blind just remember you have to collect a bunch of clues to get going. Graphics, phenominal for a now 10 year old game, like it isn't crysis levels of wow instead it's better. It to me surpassed crysis in terms of technical ability only with one caviate: there little interactivity with the world. So it's not a physics masterpiece but more of an artistic/graphical masterpiece. Sound is what you would expect: serviceable but nothing that blew me away, like a 6-7 out of 10. Nothing that ruined my experience but not life changing and it did what it was supposed to. There is sound design that is good but that's about it. Controls are most fine, they do the job. Give it a go if you can get it cheap, about 3-4 hours almost 100%. It's very short.
Belle histoire, malheureusement platine quasiment impossible à faire sans regarder un guide (On aurait pu espérer un peu plus de mécanique d'aide pour le joueur)
Do you know what ghosts are? They sad evicted things, memories without homes. There is no such thing is ordinary, and there is no where is truly quiet, Ethan warn me about that, things cannot be named, don't be fooled for what i saw here. What ever haunts it is still here, somewhere. They say if you come back from the dead, it will left a mark in you They say if you survive in it, you have no idea what you saw in there They say if you do, you are living in both world, and once they start, they will never shut up So, would you dare to live in both realm, you can't choose, but if you do, what you trade for it, is immensely affect your future, don't be scared, you did fight after all.
遊戲畫面放在2025依然覺得很漂亮，背景音樂氛圍也很棒 劇情內容雖然有些短，但故事完整 有少量恐怖點，但靠著把聲音關掉跟直直往前衝還是可以過關的!! 感謝nick.exe大大的重製版中文漢化 缺點: -地圖有點大，方向指引不太清楚，對路痴不友善(花了很久時間在迷路阿阿) -畫面會有點3D暈 -無法隨時存檔 遊玩時間(有參考攻略):4~5小時 個人評分:7/10
THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER - крутой симулятор ходьбы / квест, сюжет в свое время очень понравился. Проходил обычную версию не REDUX, может настал час переиграть в обновленном формате! Из минусов: могли бы не плодить игры в библиотеке, а добавить выбор версии в программе запуска или просто заменить базовую на REDUX!
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