Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Unveiled as Spiritual Successor to Dear Esther

In what is being called a “spiritual successor” to non-combat, first-person “ghost” story Dear Esther, developer The Chinese Room has announced another title in the works, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.

If we recall Dear Esther (and we should), the game used Half-Life 2’s Source Engine to create a tragic, vaguely spooky FPS-minus-the-shooting experience.

While that enigmatic title was set out on the Outer Hebrides, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is set in rural Shropshire and tasks players with exploring the environment with just one real-time hour to go before the world comes to an end.

The title, developed using CryEngine 3, focuses on exploration, light-puzzle solving and immersion. It’s a non-combat experience that promises to be highly evocative, atmospheric and exquisitely melancholy, hence its status as a successor of Dear Esther.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is set to release on PC sometime in 2013.

Via: The Gaming Vault