Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has the most colorful postapocalyptic landscape I’ve ever seen. It forces you to take your time looking for any important details in the town. It might feel unusual at first, but it’s necessary for the experience The Chinese Room was aiming for. The people have no choice but to confront them.Īs in Dear Esther, the pace is slow. But with their lives in danger, those feelings come bubbling back to the surface. These conflicts existed before the end of the world became a reality. Love and how one chooses to share that love are some of the more grounded topics Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture tackles within its science-fiction premise. I also saw teenagers celebrating their love despite what the girl’s father might think and a mother chastising her adult son for his taste in women. It’s a testament to the character actors’ soulful performances.īut not every memory is depressing. The trembling voices and the bouts of anger told me everything I needed to know about how they felt. Even though I couldn’t see their faces, those scenes were painful to watch.

I found a priest welcoming the new girl in town, a couple arguing about whether they should find a way out of the quarantine, and others who just broke down and cried after realizing the end is near.

You can listen to their conversations to get a sense of who they were and the parts they played in the story (see the video below for an example). Heading to these places triggers a moment from the past, with the people appearing as apparitions made of tiny dots of light. While they can’t talk to you, they fly through the town and stop at areas you should visit.

The orbs serve as your guides in the game, some of which even have names. Though the people are gone, the cosmic phenomena now inhabiting the town immortalized their stories with traces of light. Image Credit: Giancarlo Valdes/GamesBeat What you’ll like

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