Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Review

By Gil Almogi

Walk gingerly to your PS4 and play this.

From the developers of “walking simulator,” Dear Esther, and the “not exactly walking simulator,” Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, comes a new “game” for “gamers” to “play” “exclusively” on their “Playstation 4” “video game” “consoles.” [This is "commentary." ~Ed. Nick] The Chinese Room brings you Everybody’s Gone to the…

  • Beautiful graphics, especially during surreal moments
  • Excellent voice acting
  • Transcendent musical score complements emotional scenes
  • Well-written story that communicates a large event through smaller subplots
  • Novel method of storytelling using sparkling silhouettes to re-enact key scenes
  • Open-world approach to level design…
  • …which doesn’t always reward curious players
  • Sprint function not communicated at all, leaving players with very slow walking pace
  • Some wasted interactions with TVs

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Gil Almogi
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