Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

[b]Slow as hell — and absolutely worth it.[/b] I somehow completely missed Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture when it originally released and only stumbled across it by accident in 2025. And hell, am I thankful I did. This is definitely not a game for anyone looking for constant action. It is incredibly slow, even by walking simulator standards, but once I got invested in figuring out what happened, I couldn’t stop. Walking through this completely abandoned English village, finding little pieces of people’s lives and slowly connecting everything together is an experience I won’t forget. The game doesn’t just dump the story in front of you — you have to piece it together yourself, and watching the bigger picture gradually emerge is incredibly satisfying. The atmosphere is phenomenal as well. The beautiful countryside combined with the complete absence of people creates this strange mixture of peaceful, melancholic and unsettling that I haven’t really experienced anywhere else. It’s a very specific kind of game and certainly won’t be for everyone. But if you enjoy slowly unraveling a mystery and letting a story reveal itself at its own pace, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is som…

A boring and sluggish walking simulator. [h3] Slow as ♥♥♥♥[/h3] It's fun and interesting to follow the story and characters, but what a chore to walk like an old man! Knowing that every detour will take forever doesn't exactly inspire me to explore. I understand they want player to admire the sceneries, and not be completed too fast but sheesh. Make a 3-5 hours game instead of a 6-8 hours one. You might have had better reviews then! You can """"run"""" outside (sometimes, it doesn't really feel like running anyway), but that's pathetic, it takes several seconds to pick up speed and it's not really faster. To the point where I never know if it's working or not, and I just mindlessly hold down the run button all the game. And of course, to make it even more frustrating, it's an open world where there is "collectibles" everywhere if you want 100% completion, which is absolutely brilliant when you're walking so slowly and basically punishes backtracking. [h3]Clunky[/h3] Also, the game "lags" for some unknown reason and has pathetic performances when you move the camera. I know games had less fps back in the days but come on... It ain't that old. I tried to put it at the lowest s…

I like walking simulators. This is not a good walking sim. Play something else.

was hoping for something similar to firewatch but this doesn't really scratch the itch for me. I love story based games, but this is just a lot of very very very slow walking looking for a scene to trigger. Supposedly there's a light orb that you are supposed to follow but it's erratic and doesn't turn up consistently so you are just stuck wandering around slowly for ages round and round the same map hoping to find the next scene. Graphics are nice, personally that's all it's got going for it

It's not an action adventure! But I love that it isn't. The Archers mixed with a John Wyndham novel full, covered with a splashing of late 1970s/early 1980s nostalgia. It's a story, and you're in the middle of it. Interactive story telling at its best. Just make sure to download the Beta branch (still available) so that you can walk ever so slightly faster :D

There are many games out there which are jokingly referred to as 'Walking Simulators' but which offer rich, immersive, and relaxing explorations of wonderful new worlds or places, often telling a compelling story throughout. This is not one of them. 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' is an exercise in how easily a game can be hostile to the player. You nearly always move at a walking pace, which would normally be fine, until an hour in which you realize you are tethered to it and that every step in any direction means spending twice that time to go in any other--a toll which quickly ramps up to feel like an extreme cost. Imagine the feeling of carrying a full sack of cement with you everywhere that you go. That is precisely what you are in for here. Maybe there's a building back across the street you're not sure that you explored. In that case, prepare to lock in for a good five minutes of retracing your steps. This is not hyperbole. Or what if you discover that a particular object is interactable and remember that there was one in another house you recall from a few hours back? You may be in for a full hour of tediously dragging yourself all the way back to that locatio…