Ranking 2015’s Summer Video Games From Worst To Best

5. Everybody's Gone To The Rapture

Proving to be this year's most controversial title, games like The Chinese Room's latest are starting to divide the gaming populace like all the best indie titles on the silver screen do. Chances are you know in your heart of hearts whether you're someone who can stomach the most potentially pretentious works the indie scene throws out, or if it's just not for you. Did you like Gone Home? Have you heard of To The Moon? How about The Vanishing of Ethan Carter? All three pushed the envelope considerably for emotionally-resonant gameplay-meets-narrative combos, and for Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, you're simply dropped into a gorgeously realised Shropshire village, the drive to finish being, "What happened to everybody?" From then on in you'll mostly indulge in audio recordings from light-emitting silhouettes that formerly populated the area (or so it seems), figuring out everything from who you are, what this mystical ball of light you're following around is, which villagers fell in love with who and what exactly was happening at the time of the 'incident' that consumed them all. Like Her Story and the aforementioned trifecta of indie-themed titles, they aim to scratch your progressive "Man, that was one hell of an experience" itch before any sort of replayable gameplay mechanic - but for that alone, you have to be grateful gaming can produce such polarising titles alongside everything else.