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The highly anticipated post-apocalyptic game, Everybody’s Gone to Rapture, has finally locked in a release date.

The game will launch on August 11th, exclusively for the PlayStation 4. The release date was announced on the PlayStation Blog, including the formation of a new website for the game, complete with media, images, details, behind the scenes tidbits, and more.

From development studio The Chinese Room (Dear Esther), players will take to an English village that is hauntingly beautiful and yet devoid of life, following a cataclysmic event that has wiped out its inhabitants, and quite possibly, the rest of the world.

Players will travel this void land, discovering the stories of the island’s inhabitants, their relationship to you, and their relation to what really happened. What you do in the game is just as important as their stories.

You can sample an overview of the game’s story, via its official website:

This Story Begins With The End Of The World…
Yaughton, Shropshire. 06:37am 6th June 1984.

An empty village, nestled in an idyllic valley in the English countryside. Something has gone terribly wrong. This story begins with the end of the world…

Deep within the Shropshire countryside, the village of Yaughton stands empty. Toys lie forgotten in the playground, the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent churchyard. Down on Appleton’s farm, crops rustle untended, the early harvest abandoned halfway through. The birds lie where they have fallen. A pair of shoes hang from the overhead wires. The windmill continues to turn unobserved. Strange voices haunt the radio waves as uncollected washing hangs listlessly on the line. There is light in the wires. The televisions are tuned to vacant channels. Above it all, the telescopes of the Observatory point out at dead stars and endless darkness. And someone remains behind, to try and unravel the mystery.

Immerse yourself in a rich, deep adventure from award-winning developer The Chinese Room and investigate the last days of Yaughton Valley. Uncover the traces of the vanished community; discover fragments of events and memories to piece together the mystery of the apocalypse.

Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.