You Should Be Playing... Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture | Hidden Gems On PC
161Our weekly series looks at hidden gems on PC. This week, the newest member of the Rock Paper Shotgun video department, Alice, tells us why she loves Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture. The Chinese Room’s apocalypse-em-up is one of a kind, as you’ll find out...
There are so many hidden gems on PC, cult classics waiting to be discovered. In our You Should Be Playing series we pick one game a week and explain why it resonated with us. Okay, Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture is quite well known, but I bet there’s people watching who haven’t yet ventured out into the eerie world of virtual Shropshire to find out where everyone has done. And if you have played it, this is a great chance to revisit a classic.
Our Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture gameplay takes us on a quick tour of one of the weirdest game worlds on PC - it’s a world that feels hugely live din, yet is totally absent of life. Is this due to some horrible alien invasion, a higher power or something more mundane? As you explore empty houses and church halls you half expect the game to transform into a horror experience, but it’s never as cliched as that. The Chinese Room keep you guessing until the end (and quite probably beyond).
But hey, I’m only repeating what Alice already explains in the video. Watch that instead and within nine minutes I guarantee you’ll be asking yourself ‘why am I not playing Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture?’. Hopefully you’ll find Alice’s Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture impressions useful - if you have any more questions about the game, pop them in the comments and we’ll try to answer them.
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