Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $4.44/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6850, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 22 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($9.99, scores 28) outscores it, and so does Firewatch ($19.99, scores 56). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
76 on Metacritic, 68 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 611 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 316 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.5 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
28% start to 28% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is another brilliant PC game from the people who brought us Dear Esther. Less a game than an interactive story, Rapture relies largely on mood and atmosphere to beguile the player. The village of Yaughton is home to an observatory with several telescopes, and it is invaded by a mysterious other-worldly light source, a type of energy that seems to absorb the people of the village. The player arrives after the...
A beautiful, touching, immersive story, with forcing the player to move slowly, which I don't think is the best solution, but I appreciate the intention.
I was willing to put up with the walking / running speed, not to mention slightly lagging frames in some areas, on top of time consuming collectibles & tasks to unlock achievements until I got softlocked in one of main story areas and cannot progress anymore. It made a checkpoint afterwards so reloading the game and waiting didn't work at all. It's a shame because I genuinely enjoy the story a lot but I cannot be...
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Cite this score
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/417880/everybody-s-gone-to-the-raptureReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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