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Dear Esther has now sold "well over" 750,000 copies thanks to Humble Bundle

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Dear Esther has now sold "well over" 750,000 copies thanks to Humble Bundle

All the games were good. That’s the key trick Indie Gala and (less so) Indie Royale missed in their hurry to mimic the runaway, yachts-for-everyone success of the first Humble Indie Bundle. World of Goo. Aquaria. Gish. Penumbra. Lugaru. All good games.

Even Humble themselves have lost their way on occasion since, but their latest pack was absolutely killer. And the inclusion of Dear Esther has paid dividends for developers thechineseroom.

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thechineseroom take the apocalypse to the country in the spiritual successor to Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

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thechineseroom take the apocalypse to the country in the spiritual successor to Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the RaptureFirst things first with this, thechineseroom’s follow-up to Dear Esther - there’s that oddly ambiguous title. If it has more than a touch of Enid Blyton about it (“May we go to the Rapture too, Mummy? Yes, let’s!") that’s probably by design - Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a game which relocates the end of the world from its usual haunt in the New York skyline to a tiny Shropshire village.

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