The Chinese Room has peeled back the curtain on the launch trailer for its upcoming first-person exploration title, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which offers up a handsome, yet eerily isolated vignette of the end of the world.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is now within arm’s length of its August 11 release date. For more coverage and information on the game, stay tuned to GamingBolt.

Over the course of the game, the player slowly pieces together the fate of the valley from the fragmentary memories of the people who made it their home.

This broad concept is carried by a narrative centered on astrophysicist Dr. Katherine Collins and her husband Dr. Stephen Appleton. With a tense dialogue happening between a married couple you can hear phrases like “we can save them”, “it’s too late” and “open the gate!”, all on top of some rather epic choir-driven score. “You and me”, Appleton said.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture started life as a PC project, a spiritual successor to Dear Esther, but since then the team has decided to work with Sony to deliver it on the PlayStation 4.

“It’s not just you and me anymore, is it?” In addition, recently The Chinese Room revealed the full cast of the game, including famous TV, film and radio actors headed by Merle Dandridge (known for Marlene from The Last Of Us and Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2).