Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Welcome back fellow Steemians, it's that time of the week again, time for your weekly game review fix.
This last week I stumbled upon on a rather epic indie game, what I mean is this is definitely not one of your more main stream games I usually review. This is also a pretty short game but it was an amazing mysterious adventure, with a great story for game that looks very simplistic when you start. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture transported me to one of the most detailed world's I have experienced in ages, it really feels lived in and the scenes are gorgeous.
This is one of those games where the bread and butter of the game is the story. The developers have used very effective storytelling techniques to tell the tale of a quiet English village whose inhabitants suddenly begin to disappear into swirls of light. What I really loved about this game is how you never exactly know what is going on, my theories of what had transpired keep evolving as you progress in the game. I found myself constantly jumping between the different reason this could have happened, was this event rooted in religious, alien, or human-caused reasons.
Our story is set in 1984, in a fictional English village named Yaughton in Shropshire, England, that has been completely deserted.
The player only has one main objective, and that is to explore and try to discover how and why everyone has disappeared. There are these mysterious floating orbs of light that swim around in the air and they lead you to scenes made up of other human-shaped lights, which re-enact previously occurring events that have happened in the past. Following these orbs you will find evidence from all the different scenes throughout the village, as well as telephones and radios that you are able to replay conversations and recordings, that little by little fill in the blanks as to what has happened. For example, when you approach a radio or telephone which act kind of like an audio diary, you’ll begin to hear soft humming and static. While game never goes as far as to hold your hand, it does however take steps to make sure you’re never too lost in its world.
There are five main areas in the game, each of which all revolve around a different character and dicovering what happened to them.
The main protagonists being Dr Katherine Collins and her husband Stephen Appleton both scientists who work at the local observatory. During their work, Kate and Stephen encounter a strange pattern of lights in the night sky which they come to believe is an unknown form of life. They observe the pattern infecting and sometimes killing other lifeforms such as birds and cows and most of the animals roaming around the valley before eventually starting to spreading to humans inhabitants. The two scientist believe that these lights are somehow also trying to communicate with humans, but are inadvertently also causing unintended harm. Kate ends up locking herself in the observatory attempting to communicate with the lights, while Stephen becomes convinced that the light patterns might be a deadly threat capable of destroying the entire human race.
"This is Doctor Katherine Collins. I don't know if anyone will ever hear this. It's over. I'm the only one left." - Katherine Collins
The game mechanics of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture are as basic as they come, apart from moving around the world, the only other means of interaction is just one button.
Everywhere you explore you will find the floating lights bubbles that give you further clues as to where to go and also shows you a brief moment in time from before the apocalyptic event happened. The game was rather slow for the first half of the game for me, until I discovered there actually was a way to sprint as opposed to slowly walking. Like I said you need to figure everything out for yourself, very little direction is given as to what you need to do. I very much love this kind of take on games, where everything is a puzzle including even just how to play. All in all this is a great game, with a wonderful take on a mysterious adventure, it's only about five hours long and are filled with some really great exploration, discovery, and memorable moments. The game is all about story and you will be immersed into a beautiful world filled with mystery.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a first-person adventure art video game developed by The Chinese Room.
They were also responsible for the 2012 game Dear Esther as well us one or two unknown games. It is a story-based game, taking place in a small English village whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. This game is considered a spiritual successor to Dear Esther, which now really makes me want to play it tho get the entire story. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released exclusively for the PlayStation 4. The game was later released for Windows around 8 months after initial release. I'm sure you will be able to find this game for super cheap online or at you local game store.
I give Everybody's Gone to the Rapture a rating of 7/10
In case you missed it, here is the previous game review
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