Ether One

Adventure· Indie· Puzzle· First-Person

Released Mar 2014

73% positive · 449 reviews

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Evaluation

Ether One launched on Steam on March 25, 2014 as a complete, narrative-driven first-person adventure game. In October 2015, the developer released Ether One Redux — a free upgrade for existing owners that rebuilt the game in Unreal Engine 4, while explicitly stating that no narrative or gameplay content was changed. Subsequent patches in November 2016 and March 2020 addressed engine updates, save system rewrites, and bug fixes. The store description explicitly states that the Deluxe Edition upgrade contains "no additional in-game content" — only a soundtrack, game scripts, and bonus materials. In November 2021, White Paper Games announced a new game, Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View, directed at the Ether One community as a spiritual successor. In July 2024, the team published a 10th anniversary documentary celebrating the game's history and reflecting on its development — a retrospective tone rather than a forward-looking one. There is no announced future content, no unreleased DLC, and no sustained post-launch content update pattern beyond technical maintenance. The game launched and has remained a complete, self-contained experience. The last meaningful content-related work was the March 2020 save system patch, which represents the final substantive update to the game.

Evidence

Ether One Redux released as a free upgrade for existing owners, rebuilding the game in Unreal Engine 4 with no narrative or gameplay changes

news post · Oct 29, 2015 source content shipped

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Deluxe Edition upgrade explicitly described as containing no additional in-game content — only bonus materials like the OST and game scripts

store metadata source content shipped

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Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

Ether One: Deluxe Edition Upgrade

Jun 2014

Media

Details

Developer

White Paper Games

Publisher

White Paper Games

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Unsupported

Players

Single-player

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About this game

Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind.

There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

There is also a deeper, more adventurous path in which you can complete complex puzzles to restore life changing events of the patients history in order to help the validation of their life.

Parallel paths make Ether One accessible to a range of skilled players. Invite your friends and family around to pick their brains for help taking on challenging environmental puzzles, or soak in the atmosphere of Pinwheel at leisure. From a young age we enjoyed the first person puzzle games that required you to write cryptic notes on spare pieces of paper to unravel mysteries. Ether One aims to bring back pen and paper puzzle solving, whilst still being accessible and optional for people not wanting to get stuck and frustrated on the harder puzzles.

features

First Person Adventure Game.
Open narrative exploration in the town of Pinwheel.
Optional puzzle solving.
Accessible gameplay with additional controller support for players that aren’t as skilled with complex controls.
Challenging pen and paper puzzle design you can decrypt at your own pace.

Deluxe Edition

The Ether One Deluxe Edition comes with the Ether One OST, Game Script, & Comics along with a few more goodies. Please note that there is no additional in-game content.

The Ether One Original Soundtrack by Nathaniel-Jorden Apostol features more than 40 minutes of music created exclusively for Ether One. The soundtrack comes with MP3 & FLAC format along with custom artwork for the soundtrack.

MP3 & FLAC format files will be placed in the Ether One folder in the Steam Directory: ...Steam\steamapps\common\EtherOne\Soundtrack

The Ether One game scripts contain all of the spoken dialogue along with some things that got cut from the game. We hope you find it interesting to see how we developed the narrative for Ether One. Please note: These scripts contain spoilers for the game. You may wish to finish Ether One before reading these. We have noted down specifically which game script contain spoilers in the download.

PDF format files will be placed in the Ether One folder in the Steam Directory: ...Steam\steamapps\common\EtherOne\Scripts

The Strange Tale of Byron Spencer was created by Mark Penman & coloured by Andrew Tunney. It provides an alternative fiction for the world of Pinwheel.

PDF format files will be placed in the Ether One folder in the Steam Directory: ...Steam\steamapps\common\EtherOne\Comics