The British Writer’s Guild has decreed Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture as the winner of its video game writing award.
Other nominees included Her Story and Sunless Sea, which are likewise powerful and creepy stories.
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture was written by Dan Pinchbeck and developed by a small team at The Chinese Room. It’s a meditative and impactful game. You can read Keezy Young’s review right here.
One of the most interesting things about these three nominees is that they all tell their stories in a manner that isn’t quite traditionally linear. Everybody’s Gone To the Rapture has chapters, but you can move through each individual section however you want.
Sunless Sea is a roguelike that lets you explore a vast undersea world at your leisure. And the order of Her Story’s narrative depends entirely on how the player chooses to explore it.
You can check out the full list of nominees for all of the British Writer’s Guild awards right here. Other categories include radio, film, and television. Russel T. Davies was honored as well, for his contributions to television in the original “Queer as Folk,” and the 2005 revitalization of “Doctor Who.”
(The Writers Guilds of America’s nominees for their own awards trend toward the AAA instead of indie titles, with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Pillars of Eternity, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and The Witcher 3 leading the nominations.)
