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It was released for PlayStation 4 on 11 August 2015 and for Windows on 14 April 2016. It received positive reviews from critics. Gameplay. In Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, the player explores a small English village whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared.
Aug 12, 2016 · On August 11, 2015, the small Brighton-based studio of The Chinese Room put out a magnificently atmospheric supernatural investigation game by the name of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
- Warning: It’S All Spoilers from Here on Out
- The Basics
- The Event, The Pattern, and The End of The World
- The Lives of The Townspeople
- Part One: Jeremy
- Part Two: Wendy
- Part Three: Frank
- Part Four: Lizzie
- Part Five: Stephen
- Part Six: Kate
I really liked Rapturethe first time I finished it, so I went back and began playing again. As I did so, I found myself taking notes and diagramming the characters and timelines depicted over the course of the game. Eventually I had a comically complicated collection of notes, which has led me to write this overlong article. The more I pieced toget...
The most important characters in Rapture are two scientists: Stephen Appleton and his wife, Dr. Katherine (Kate) Collins. They met in America, and Kate has agreed to return to Stephen’s hometown in rural England in order to work at the Valis Observatory, focusing on astronomy theories that involve decoding numerical patterns in the stars. Wendy Boy...
The Event is basically The Rapture—it’s the mysterious apocalypse that is the focus of the game’s primary storyline. It begins when Stephen and Kate discover a pattern in the stars during a celestial event and then amplify it using the telescopes at Valis Observatory. In doing so, they release a form of intelligent light energy known as The Pattern...
Those are the events of the capital-S Story. But the deeper satisfaction of Everybody’s Gone To The Rapturecomes from understanding the non-apocalyptic echoes left behind by the valley residents’ everyday lives. For every frantic radio call from Stephen or cryptic research memo from Kate, there’s a memory from a longer time ago, as two or three tow...
The story starts with Father Jeremy. It’s a good way to begin, since as the resident man of the cloth, Jeremy gets around town a lot and talks with lots of people. During Jeremy’s chapter we meet Dr. Phil Wade, a doctor at the local surgery (doctor’s office) and his assistant Barbara, both of whom turn up at various points throughout the story. Dr....
By the time Wendy’s chapter rolls around, we already know her as the hard-nosed woman who was so rough on Jeremy. Her husband Eddie was a war veteran who died young—it’s never quite clear what happened, but he apparently never fully recovered from the war, whether physically or mentally. Wendy doesn’t approve of her son Stephen’s new wife Kate, say...
Frank owns and operates the farm in the middle of the valley. There’s no love lost between him and his nephew Stephen, though I never got a sense of why that is. He’s good friends with a man named Charlie Tate, and the two are Ham Radio enthusiasts who go by the callsigns “Lost Cowboy” and “Traveling Sherlock,” respectively. He employs Rhys, who we...
After Stephen left her ten years ago, Lizzie had some sort of an accident that left her crippled and unable to walk properly. She’s now married to Robert Graves, an alcoholic who owns an auto shop in Yaughton proper. (No one seems to think much of poor Robert.) Lizzie runs the Lakeside Holiday Camp, a large campground north of the lake. Lizzie firs...
Stephen’s narrative weaves through all the others. Since Kate is locked in the observatory while he runs around like a madman outside, he has the most opportunities to interact with the rest of the cast. Over the course of his story, we see Stephen fall back in love with Lizzie, fight with Kate, and run into a few of the other until-now bit-players...
Kate’s chapter is where things get dicy. There’s so much room for interpretation you could drive an interpretation-bus through it and still have room to tango. But, whatever, I’ll go over what she says and what I think it means, based on what she, Stephen, and others have said about the Pattern, the light, the symptoms, and the rapture. Throughout ...
Aug 10, 2015 · Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture excels at building a dense world, evocative tone, and rich cast of characters. Its five hours are filled with some really great exploration, discovery,...
- Marty Sliva
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a 2015 post-apocalyptic Environmental Narrative Game developed by The Chinese Room (developers of Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs) and released for the PlayStation 4 (ported to PC in 2016).
Jun 16, 2014 · Everybodys Gone to the Rapture is the next game from The Chinese Room, the up-and-coming indie behind the well-regarded Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs. The team showed its...
Yaughton, Shropshire. 06:37am 6th June 1984. Deep within the Shropshire countryside, the village of Yaughton stands empty. Toys lie forgotten in the playground, the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent churchyard.
