But from the very start it was jarring, and even reminisced, in a odd way times when Covid first hit us. At first it seemed like a bit like every other walking sim, a sad narrative, puzzles and information fed on a slow drip, while walking through a baron world that's exquisite in details.
Without giving away spoilers this game made me cry, angered, shocked and wounded, on so many levels. The soundtrack alone, is so poignant that combined with the characters stories you cannot help but fall heart first into this beautifully 'raptured' world. Radios offer diary-like snippets, phones play out older phone conversations, motes of light coalesce to present a few seconds from key events as a kind of supernatural slideshow.So I am a big fan of the walking sim genre, and I can honestly say this game was a beautiful masterpiece to come across. The village is empty – a kind of English countryside Mary Celeste – but you seem to be able to tap into echoes of the events that triggered the absences. The story begins near an observatory on the outskirts of the Shropshire village of Yaughton.
Let’s start with what the game actually is. It has all of these moments of real loveliness and effectiveness but also, for me, there’s an undercurrent of intense frustration brought about through the interaction systems and slight disconnect between story and environment. I played it when it came out on PS4 a while back but I’ve just worked my way through the PC version and can now tell you Wot I Think:Įverybody’s Gone To The Rapture won’t quite come together in my head as a unified experience. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is The Chinese Room’s newly-on-PC game about exploring an English village in the hopes of finding out where everyone’s get to.
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