everybody's gone to the rapture

New Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Trailer

A melancholy tone pervades the latest trailer for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, from developer, The Chinese Room.

A spiritual follow on to Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the

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Just out for a nice bike ride in the country, what could possibly go wrong?

Rapture is set in an English village, but something’s gone very wrong. Where are all the people? The trailer hints at some sort of deadly epidemic, with government public information broadcasts playing, as the camera pans over an abandoned nursery school.

Expect lots of setting-based storytelling, with clues to find, as you piece together what’s happened, in this first-person walking adventure. Reminiscent of the likes of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Rapture promises plenty of eerie, all in rural Shropshire.

In an announcement on the PlayStation blog, Chinese Room co-director, Dan Pinchbeck, said, “We’re going to announce a launch date shortly, so stay tuned for that. I’m so proud of the team and the game we’ve made. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is going to be really different, an apocalypse like no other, and we think it’s going to be good.”

We suspect the announcement will come at or around E3, in June. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a PlayStation 4 exclusive.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.

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