Dear Esther was a hugely popular experiment in gaming and storytelling when it came out. Well, in some circles. In others, it was derided as a “walking simulator.” So, The Chinese Room are following it up with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, about discovering how and why everyone has… well, you can read the title.
To find out, you explore a quaint English village and poke your nose into everybody’s private business. You know: Typical video game hijinks, except this makes more sense as everybody is dead already and won’t care. To see what stealing the stuff of the dead feels like, we’ll be on Twitch and, of course, streaming below between 2:50 p.m. EST and 4:50 p.m. EST. Join us, won’t you?