Much like fellow indie Helldivers, Sony will be handling the PC release of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, which has been rumoured for an eternity, and has finally been officially confirmed. The eerie Shropshire set walking sim – which was one of our Game of the Year picks in 2015 – will launch on Steam in the near future, though there's no word on a release date just yet.
"As for the PC version, we started work on it in September and submitted it recently," The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck told Rock Paper Shotgun. "Sony will be handling the PC release, including management of the Steam page and whatever else there might be, so it should be released as soon as they've done testing and preparation."
Elsewhere in the interview, Pinchbeck revealed the English outfit's next title, Total Dark, which will launch on the PC as well. "It's good to be back on the PC," he said. "It's where we started and it'll be the home of our next game." Looks like it wasn't kidding when it suggested that its relationship with the PlayStation maker kinda went south. A shame, really.
[source rockpapershotgun.com]
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I just wonder what Sony get from putting some exclusives on PC, it was fair enough with Helldivers because it needed an active community (though a Plus release should have fixed that) but this is different especially as it had Santa Monica's involvement.
@adf86 I bet it was part of the contract. If they allow these devs to put their game on PC, it gives them bargaining power in the boardroom to lock up "console exclusivity".
@get2sammyb But if that was the case then why did the marketing say "Only on Playstation"? That was why the trailers got rereleased this week so they could remove that wording. I just hope they don't make an habit of it otherwise they will have the problem Microsoft are currently having with people looking at their games and thinking "I'll wait till it comes to PC" not to mention alienating their core fanbase by putting superior versions of there games on other platforms.
I just recently starting getting in to PC gaming. I'm a console first guy but I'm finding the combo of PS4 and PC a great fit for me.
This is a great game think it will do well on the PC glad its getting to a wider market so more peeps can enjoy the game.
Awesome news Can't wait to play this amazing game (for like the fifth time) but at a higher frame rate. The moment near the end, when Stephen is reminiscing about the fox and the whole story kind of comes together, is one of my favorite moments so far in this generation of games
Parkour mod incoming!
@adf86
Games of this nature are fickle in regards to platform exclusivity.
I hope Sony starts putting some of its games on PC. More people getting to play great games is not a bad thing unless you're a damn fanboy.
@Gamer83 - Could you imagine what Naughty Dog could do with the power of a PC?
@Splat
I don't think I can because in the past ND has done things with PS hardware I wasn't sure was possible. I'd love to see what that studio could do with a high-end PC game.
@Gamer83 Maybe not much better then other studios tbh. The advantage Naughty Dog has is that it can focus on one platform only. If they start doing PC games it will complicate things (not that Sony will want to do that anyway)
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