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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

Gaming — Immerse yourself in a stunningly realised world [First Person Shooter, Indie Games, Simulation G…
Gamingest. 2017
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 936 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
apps.apple.com
edge
direct origin
server
daiquiri/5
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it inactive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Red Dead Redemption 2gamingsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Tokyo 42gamingsimilar86%40.00.0● live
The Walking Dead - Michonneentertainmenttag-overlap86%7.80.0■ inactive
Vizzywig 4Kdesigntag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Resident Evil Villageentertainmenttag-overlap86%40.0+7.2● live
GTA 5gamingsimilar86%9.40.0— unverified
MI 11 - Xiaomihardwaretag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
Do Not Feed the Monkeysgamingsimilar71%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tiersunset
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:00Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5877dead_404
2026-08-17 13:42Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51053dead_404
2026-08-09 19:37Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5961dead_404
2026-08-08 04:41Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51074dead_404
2026-07-31 15:39Z429itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51100unknown
2026-07-26 17:34Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51134dead_404
2026-07-18 14:17Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51653dead_404
2026-07-13 14:05Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51421dead_404
2026-07-04 16:12Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51984dead_404
2026-07-03 00:51Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5112dead_404
2026-06-24 13:47Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5184dead_404
2026-06-23 12:58Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51008dead_404
2026-06-21 21:17Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5214dead_404
2026-06-20 19:23Z404itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5334dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Dear Esther: Landmark Edition · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/dear-esther-landmark-edition · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.