History VideoGame / EverybodysGoneToTheRapture

* StiffUpperLip: At first the resident's of Yaughton react quite calmly to the army quarantining the village, seemingly more put out at the inconvenience than how dire the situation must actually be to warrant it. [[spoiler: played straight with the doctor's calm and sardonic tape message, where he concludes he is dying, and its certainly not from flu.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Robert Graves, whose truck was run off the road by Sam and Diana in their haste to escape the town. His body is gone like all the others, but Diana's horror and the damage to the truck suggests he was impaled to his seat by a broken tree branch.]]

* DownerEnding: ? [[spoiler:A case can be made that the game is one massive deconstruction. Set after the end of humanity, the game spends most of its story trying to hammer home to you that all its characters were flawed, lonely people who faced oblivion with a lot of unresolved baggage. Whats more, it becomes clear that the was never any real hope of saving these characters your now invested in. Despite this, the story and its presentation are unquestionably unique and rewarding. The characters are left to find a measure of closure and the ending to the story is left open to your interpretation.]]

* MadScientist: As strange things start to happen in Yaughton some of its residence suspect Stephen's become this. [[spoiler: Ironically as the story progresses we find hes actually a subversion, becoming more rational and desperate in his attempts to contain and kill The Pattern. Played straight with Kate, who when left alone has clearly gone off the deep end in her attempts to strengthen and nurture The Pattern, resulting in her strange and crazy contraptions all over the observatory.]]

* OhCrap: Every new revelation for Stephen comes across as one of these. [[spoiler: "Its in the phones! GET OFF THE PHONES!"]]
* OutsideContextVillain: [[spoiler: 'The Pattern' although it's intentions (if it indeed has any?) are mostly a complete mystery, Kate and Stephen point out it defies both known physics and human understanding from the outset.]] it all ends as well as you might expect.

* DownerEnding: ? [[spoiler:A case can be made that the game is one massive deconstruction. Set after the end of humanity, the game spends most of its story trying to hammer home to you that all its characters were flawed, lonely people who faced oblivion with a lot of unresolved baggage. Whats more, it becomes clear that the was never any real hope of saving these characters your now invested in. Despite this the story and its presentation are unquestionably unique and rewarding and its aim is clearly to leave you with more emotions than just sadness.]]

* MadScientist: As strange things start to happen in Yaughton some of its residence suspect Stephen's become this. [[spoiler: Ironically as the story progresses we find hes actually a subversion, becoming more rational and desperate in his attempts to contain and kill the signal. Played straight with Kate, who when left alone has clearly gone off the deep end in her attempts to strengthen and nurture the signal, resulting in her strange and crazy contraptions all over the observatory.]]

* OutsideContextVillain: [[spoiler: 'The Signal' although it's intentions (if it indeed has any?) are mostly a complete mystery, Kate and Stephen point out it defies both known physics and human understanding from the outset.]] it all ends as well as you might expect.

* DaylightHorror: As the story starts its a splendid and fine English morning in Shropshire, this often leaves the small indications of a prior catastrophic and biblical end of days all the more unnerving.

* DownerEnding: ? [[spoiler:a case can be made that the game is one massive deconstruction. set after the end of humanity, the game spends most of its story trying to hammer home to you, that all its characters were flawed, lonely and faced oblivion with a lot of unresolved baggage. whats more, it becomes clear that the was never any real hope of saving these characters your now invested in. despite this the story and its presentation are unquestionably unique and rewarding and its aim is clearly to leave you with more emotions than just empty sadness.]]

* MadScientist: as strange things start to happen in Yaughton some of its residence suspect Stephen's become this. [[spoiler: Ironically as the story progresses we find hes actually a subversion, becoming more rational and desperate in his attempts to contain and kill the signal. Played straight with Kate, who when left alone has cearly gone off the deep end in her attempts to strengthen and nurture the signal, resulting in her strange and crazy contraptions all over the observatory.]]

* OhCrap: Every revelation for Stephen comes across as one of these. [[spoiler: "Its in the phones! GET OFF THE PHONES!"]]
* OutsideContextVillain: [[spoiler:the 'Rapture' although any intentions if it indeed has any are mostly a complete mystery, Kate and Stephen point out it defies both known physics and human understanding from the outset.]] it all ends as well as you might expect.

* MadScientist: as strange things start to happen in Yaughton some of its residence suspect Stephen's become this. [[spoiler: Ironically as the story progresses we see hes actually a subversion, becoming more rational and desperate in his attempts to contain and kill the signal. Its instead Kate who plays true to the trope, and when left alone has very much gone off the deep end in her attempts to strengthen and nurture the signal, resulting in her creating strange and crazy contraptions all over the observatory.]]

* OutsideContextVillain: [[spoiler:the 'Rapture' although any intentions if it indeed has any are mostly mystery, Kate and Stephen point out it defies both known physics and human understanding from the outset.]] it all ends as well as you might expect.

* OutsideContextVillain: [[spoiler:the 'Rapture' although any intentions if it indeed has any are mostly mystery, Kate and Steven point out it defies both known physics and human understanding form the outset.]] it all ends as well as you might expect.

* GodzillaThreshold: Stephen convinces the government to [[spoiler: bombard the valley with nerve gas]] to try and stop the Pattern from spreading out of control. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].

* HarsherInHindsight: You sometimes come upon rooms filled with dust-like motes of light which look quite pretty. [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that this is the result of death by exposure to "the pattern." Depending on how you interpret several manifestations, it's possible that victims literally disintegrate into light.]]
** [[spoiler: The ExpositionFairy in Lizzie's chapter has a mini-me following it around. Then you discover later on that Lizzie was pregnant when the bombs fell...]]

* ShoutOut: The radio telescope is named after a Phillip K. Dick novel.

* AfterTheEnd: Everyone in the village [[spoiler: And possibly the world]] has disappeared. The bulk of the game centers around figuring out why.

* SoleSurvivor: The player character, for reasons unknown.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: --> "It doesn't understand it's hurting us."]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Stephen and Lizzie, who were high school sweethearts.]]

* AfterTheEnd: Everyone in the village has disappeared. The bulk of the game centers around figuring out why.

* ExpositionFairy: The balls of light. Activating them shows scenes related to the townsfolk and their doings just before the Rapture. They even seem to be intelligent, seeming to guide you to these moments and places at certain points.

* SoleSurvivor: The player character, for reasons unknown.

''Everybody's Gone to the Rapture'' is a 2015 adventure game developed by The Chinese Room (developers of ''[[VideoGame/DearEsther]]'') and released for the PlayStation 4. It focuses on an unknown survivor of an apocalyptic event in a village in Shropshire, [[SoleSurvivor who appears to be the only person left in the town.]] Using audio logs, tape recorders, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers images granted by floating balls of light]], the character, and by extension, the player, try to piece together just what happened to the town.

* NothingIsScarier: You're only given bits and pieces of the whole story, leaving your imagination to do the rest. Some entries in the ApocalypticLog imply that things got pretty terrible in the days leading up to the Rapture, and certain findings (like an [[spoiler: ''unexploded VX gas missile'']] in the river, or puddles of blood and bloody tissues from the villagers' [[DeadlyNosebleed nosebleeds]]) seem to verify this idea, but you're never given anything concrete.

* AfterTheEnd: Everyone in the village has disappeared. The bulk of the game centers around figuring out just what that end is.
* AmbiguousSituation: The driving question of the game is just what the titular "Rapture" is. Is it actually religious in nature? Is it aliens? Something else?
* ApocalypticLog: Some radios and phones can be tapped for information regarding the townsfolk, such as their relationships with one another, and even some information about when and where they were "Raptured." The balls of light take this even further, constructing entire scenes of what happened before the events in question.
* DeadlyNosebleed: One of the symptoms of those about to be "Raptured." [[spoiler: One audio log indicates that the same liquid light found in the various phenomenons is found mingled in the blood of the victims.]] [[AmbiguousSituation How deadly it actually is is up for debate.]]