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The mystery of 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' lifts a little more
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a new game from The Chinese Room, the studio behind beautiful exploration experience Dear Esther and horror game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. It's exclusive to PlayStation 4 and takes place in a gorgeous, abandoned 3D world. In-game, players embark on a mission to discover where everyone in this quaint village went -- how and why they all seemingly, suddenly popped out of existence. Time plays a "fairly central role" in the game and it involves mysterious beams of golden light. The Chinese Room revealed Everybody's Gone to the Rapture at Sony's Gamescom presentation in 2013 with an eerie trailer hinting at a retro, post-apocalyptic environment, and the latest video expands on these themes. It's similarly vague but offers a look at another environment, this time an empty children's classroom that appears to have been ransacked by ... something. Along with the new video, The Chinese Room offers a taste of the game's music with a haunting, orchestral track.
PS4 exclusive Everybody's Gone to the Rapture removes time restriction
Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room revealed that its upcoming PlayStation 4-exclusive open-world adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture will no longer require multiple playthroughs before players can see its ending. Previously, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was locked to hour-long playthroughs, encouraging players to take alternate approaches to in-game events, a la the film Groundhog Day. After an hour of playtime, the game would start over from the beginning, challenging players to explore as much as possible in the limited time they had. "Imagine reading a novel and you're really into it, and 30 pages before the end someone comes up and takes it out of your hand and goes, 'I'm afraid that's it. Your time's up,'" writer Dan Pinchbeck explained in a recent interview with Eurogamer. "It's an artificial conceit that doesn't necessarily produce a good player experience." Pinchbeck notes that time still plays a "fairly central role" in the experience, and assures that the removal of the time limit does not change the game's focus or storyline. A release date for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture has not been announced.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on PS4 [Update: trailer, screens]
British development studio thechineseroom, the developers behind Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, is preparing a PS4 game called Everbody's Gone to the Rapture. We were only given a brief glimpse during Sony's Gamescom keynote, but we noticed some strong Ico overtones.
