While indie developer The Chinese Room hasn't released more information on the upcoming first-person adventure game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture", some details such as release date, characters and story have been released online. Here's what's available so far.
First off is information on "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" release date. It was during the development of video game "Dear Esther", which considered as the spiritual predecessor of "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" that the concept of "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" was born. The Chinese Room wanted to build a game that has more interactive elements but this couldn't be set in "Dear Esther"-and so they thought of "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture".
Presented during the E3 2013, development began roughly a year before it, during the production of "Dear Esther". "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" release date has been set for 2015, however no specific date has yet been made. Upon the "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" release date, PS4 fans will get to experience the open world adventure video game exclusively although "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" was initially announced for Microsoft Windows.
"This story begins with the end of the world," tagged in the "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" trailer. "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" storyline will focus on the apocalyptic times, and will occur in the United Kingdom in 1984 right after what is known as the biblical rapture. The player will traverse empty environments proceeding the rapture, taking in "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" literally, as in no one else is left in the world but the player.
According to Polygon's early report, this setting for "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" is strategic as shared by Dan Pinchbeck of The Chinese Room. According to the article upon "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" release date, players will experience focus on the storyline than action itself. According to the report, "Setting the game in the UK in 1984 was a specific narrative choice, Pinchbeck said, recalling a time before the Internet and mobile devices when people were much more connected to the larger world and thus things experienced in far off places were felt and reacted to at home. The information isolation of that era drives the focus more toward the personal experiences of those going through it."
"Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" release date remains on a vague 2015. Meanwhile, watch the trailer here while waiting.
