Vice: It's a minute before I realise my mouth's hanging open, "catching flies" as my mother might say. I'm just staring at what's before me, soaking in the sight, the splendour of it all. It's gone 1am and Brighton-based studio The Chinese Room's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is in its final moments, and above my virtual eyes the aurora borealis dances before countless stars, colouring up to the creases of my pale, late-night skin. Stirring orchestral music swells around me, carrying my feet that never appear on the screen, up steps and towards an observatory, fulfilment, finality, the end. I snap back to reality and reposition my slack jaw, somewhat unwillingly – this is a game that I'm not sure I want to see the credits roll for, so enthralled by it have I been for the past five hours.
Starting today, Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Submerged, and a Knockout City bundle are free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until September 8 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim them, they're yours to keep.
Submerged: Hidden Depths exists on its own chill plane – an exploration game that is truly about exploration and little else..
I do like the art style of the game. Too bad it's only on Stadia. It kind of looks like it has that same vibe as Flower and Journey on the PS3. Obviously this has human looking characters in it, but the way he describes the chill nature of the gameplay, and simple controls remind me of those kind of games.
David at SQUAD writes: "Over the past few months, I’ve found myself lost in a number of books set in my home-land of the United Kingdom. At first, it was by chance, but then I found myself seeking them out. Then I got some games in a few sales -- Assassins Creed: Syndicate and Vampyr, if you must know -- and realized I’d done it again. This got me thinking: does the video game industry do a good enough job of setting games in a diverse set of locations, and how many games are set in the UK anyway?"
Yep, ZombiU was indeed. A game I actually saw recommended a few times. It's weird that it stuck with so many people.
Rapture is the only PS4 exclusive I'm gutted about not being able to play on my xbox