![]() READ MORE: ‘Dear Esther’ at 10, and the rise and fall of the walking simulator.Curry’s music was very much a living, breathing characteristic of the game, following the lone player on the wind, framing ghostly re-enactments of past events and wringing out the shifting moods of its pastoral landscape. Rapture relinquished conventional gameplay mechanics and – as with its spiritual predecessor Dear Esther – emphasised aching isolation over action, underscoring a world weighted by the omnipresent cloud of absence. Via a blend of its bucolic Shropshire-based setting and the loneliness of its desolate houses, fields and streets, all soundtracked by birdsong, and Jessica Curry’s emotion-stirring, BAFTA-winning score, The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture presented one of gaming’s most strikingly effective depictions of loss.
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