Eventually I had a comically complicated collection of notes, which has led me to write this overlong article. As I did so, I found myself taking notes and diagramming the characters and timelines depicted over the course of the game. I really liked it, so I went back and began playing again. WARNING: IT’S ALL SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT As a result of all that, it takes more than one playthrough to really put everything together. Depending on how carefully you explore, you can miss crucial conversations altogether, and unless you’ve got subtitles turned on, you may not even realise who’s talking until halfway through an exchange. Some of the conversations take place on the night of the apocalyptic Event, while others take place months or years prior. They’re all out of order, and sometimes you’ll witness a momentous conversation before you fully grasp what it is that makes it so important. Then there’s the story of the apocalyptic Event that caused them to… well, Go To The Rapture.Īs you wander the abandoned towns, farms, and parks of Yaughton Valley you’ll overhear phone calls, radio conversations, and CB broadcasts, and you’ll watch illuminated echoes of real-life conversations. Both can be a bit hard to follow.įirst, there’s the story of the people who live in Shropshire’s fictional Yaughton Valley in the 1980s. The new PS4 game Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture tells two complicated, interwoven stories.

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