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In the 2012 remake, the player experiences a vision of the M5 motorway where the car crash took place, all completely underwater. The exact location is never stated, and its likely the island is purely fictional (whether or not it literally exists in-game is also up for debate, due to the unreliable narration and heavy amount of symbolism and metaphor used throughout the game).

The majority of the game takes place on an unnamed and uninhabited island in the Hebrides, an archipelego off the West coast of Scotland. Unidentified shadowy figures can also be seen walking in the distance at a few points on the island. The paintings depict chemical formulas, circuit diagrams, and Bible qoutes, all of which aid in telling the story of the island and its previous inhabitants. In addition to the narration, the player also comes across various signs of previous habitation throughout the island- chalk lines carved into cliffsides, standing stones, candlelit shrines, and most notably, various graffiti painted on rocks and the walls of abandoned buildings. He also remarks on the island's previous inhabitants: a hermit who lived in the caves, a group of goatherds (most notably a man named Jakobson), and a man named Donnelly who charted the island in the late 1700s. All the while, he writes letters to Esther before folding them all into paper boats and setting them off into the sea, after which he commits suicide by throwing himself off the cliff. At one point the Narrator injures their leg while climbing through a cave, taking painkillers salvaged from a wrecked ship to ease the pain. The Narrator then recounts stealing a book from the library containing chartings of an uninhabited Hebridean island, where he travels to and lives for an unknown length of time.

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It can take up between six to eight full runs in order to have heard every fragment of narration at least once.ĭespite the fragmented narration, the overall story told by the Narrator has a few consistancies: the Narrator tells the story of how, after leaving the hospital for kidney stone surgery, he and Esther were involved in a car crash with a man named Paul, resulting in Esther's death. This results in the narration to somewhat lack coherency, forcing the player to draw their own conclusions to the story and making the game replayable. Each fragment is semi-randomly generated, with each location have between two to four variations in narration, which changes each time the player restarts the game again.

These fragments of narration are triggered as the player reaches various key locations along the path, typically when certain landmarks are in view, or when the player approaches those same landmarks.

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Throughout the player's journey across the island, a disembodied narrator speaks, reading aloud fragments from a series of letters to a woman named Esther (It is not directly specified who the Narrator is, but it is generally believed that he is Esther's husband, as well as the player character).

The player walks up the cliff path towards the beacon and, upon reaching it, climbs to the top of the tower and leaps off the cliff, taking flight and flying around the island and across the bay before the game ends, fading to black. From here the player character makes their way out of the cave, falling down more shafts before having a vision of a motorway, completely sunk underwater, before awakening on a moonlit beach beneath a cliff, where a radio beacon stands. The player walks past the lighthouse, along a cliff edge, past a beach strewn with shipwrecks, and various abandoned buildings including an old bothy, until eventually they fall down a hole into a massive network of caves, lit by bioluminecent fungus. The game opens on an old pier in front of a long-abandoned lighthouse, and the player can begin walking around.