That is until Clara helps him find inspiration and they embark on a research project to Scotland together. Peter’s area of study is focussed on clouds and their formation, but he’s struggling to write a paper on the subject.
This life-and-death drama is intercut with many flashback’s to Peter’s earlier life and career at university, including meeting fellow lecturer, later colleague and love interest, Clara. In the story’s “present”, Peter is stranded in Antarctica following a plane crash and must try to find rescue for himself and his Australian pilot. There are two main timelines which consistently intertwine with each other. Peter Hamilton, a Cambridge University lecturer and meteorologist in the late 1950s and early 1960s. South of the Circle is their first purely narrative game, telling the story of a British university lecturer lost in Antarctica. South of the Circle is a linear narrative adventure from developers State of Play, who previously made puzzle games such as Kami and puzzle adventures like Lumino City. While that argument has been pretty much consistently and thoroughly refuted in the years since, there are games today which still skirt the boundary of interactivity to just as much of a degree as Dear Esther did.
Back when the term “walking simulator” was being thrown around as a pejorative, people tried to argue that games such as Dear Esther were not really “proper games”, but something lesser. Narrative adventure games are a genre where the balance between story and gameplay is often a fine line to tread.
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