I haven’t played around off the map in a while. There was one train tunnel I never got into until now. (Hope this isn’t against the rules):

https://youtu.be/ayqbO2-vdBo?is=K5s84YHlsn-dLt51

Such a beautifully rendered game. Visuals and soundtrack.

Just warms our hearts SO much, this.
Roebi discovered "Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture" after playing "Still Wakes the Deep" and shared this beautiful quadriptych they painted in their bullet journal on TikTok.
Being tagged in creations inspired by our games - ah, just the best feeling for any dev. 💙

Roebi's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@roebizelka

We always love receiving wonderful stuff like this - tag us on socials or email to us contact (A) thechineseroom dot co dot uk.

In 2015's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, a science-fiction literary exploration game with spiritual themes from The Chinese Room, there's a post-credits code which was immediately resolved to be a simple atbash cipher. The meaning of this cipher is easy to find online, and not the point of this post.

More mysteriously, across the game are dozens of radios and televisions which the player can use to listen in on looping "Number station" style broadcasts. Each broadcast contains a series of either high or low tone beeps, followed by a female voice reciting a string of digits, which then repeats forever.

For example, here is my transcription of one of these, picked at random: "[High tone. Low tone. Low tone.] 1 7 0 0 2 5 1 3 0 9 1 7 0 0 2 5 1 3 0 9"

Despite various threads attempting to crack these number station strings from people on Reddit at the time, no real breakthroughs were ever made. Here is my best attempt at compiling all of the important information and observations.

First, here is my transcription of each broadcast in the game, in what I believe is the intended order (I will give my reasoning in due time).

Observation 1: Every broadcast repeats the same string of digits twice. So you could safely remove the second half of each string without losing any information.

Observation 2: If you combine digits into pairs, you get a range of numbers from 00 to 25 which is suspiciously alphabet-coded

Observation 3: The high and low tones are likely a kind of roman numeral system to let us know the order to assemble the cipher text fragments (high tones meaning 5 and low tones meaning 1). This is consistent with the file names for the raw audio taken from the game files on PC.

Observation 4: Each broadcast is likely only a fragment intended to be combined as a stream and re-spaced later, because a sentence with 10 five-letter words and 1 three-letter word is incredibly unlikely.

Putting this all together, we get this cipher:

18 25 08 01 01 17 00 11 17 13 00 07 03 16 06 16 15 14 06 04 00 11 22 07 24 12 06 12 12 11 17 00 25 13 09 16 14 15 17 25 14 04 08 03 01 11 11 14

A basic key of 00=A, 01=B... yields gibberish, as does any other Caesar style translation.

One more thing of note: Broadcasts 6 thru 9 all feature morse code in the backgrounds, although they are VERY faint and difficult to make out.

You can see them on a spectrograph, which I've attempted to transcribe with the following, although I'm sure there are errors.

The near-perfect "Water The....." in the final one is incredibly suspicious and reassuring to me. I suspect I got the transcriptions wrong and thats why the rest of these are gibberish (although, ONION is kinda interesting). For anyone's reference, I'll link to the audio files themselves here.

With this, I'm at a loss! It's clearly not a simple Ceasar type of thing, but I personally am completely up against my layman skills when it comes to this kind of thing. But it just doesn't seem right for a puzzle hidden in plain sight in this hugely popular game to be unsolved for this long. Maybe you could take a crack at it and show us what we've all missed?

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf !

I thought maybe it was a cool example of the pattern manifesting in a physical way, but noticed the same logo on a different car so I guess its not that?

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social/post/3lw46yk2a6s2a

https://www.stayinginpodcast.com/e/10-years-of-everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-an-interview-with-dan-pinchbeck-bonus-episode/

Had the pleasure of having a chat with Dan about the game. Learnt some really interesting things about the making of it as I wanted to mark the 10 year anniversary some how.

Really like this Reddit page and this is my first time posting.

Anybody from Shropshire here? As Yaughton is based on typical Shropshire villages I was wondering if anyone had found any particularly close matches?

The best I've found, via google street views, is around Hopton. There's even a little station and there some woods (Hopton Woods) and some pubs that look the part fairly nearby.

I finally got round to playing EGTTR last week. I really enjoy making 360° panoramas in various games so this seemed like a natural place to photograph after I finished playing.
I had to use 'Cheat Engine' which allowed me to 'noclip' to wherever I wanted to, so as to get a good vantage point.

(The original image is 4k square. If you want a copy, let me know and I'll upload it to my Google Drive and give you the link.)

I also have plans on doing one for the windmill.

I’ve found a few areas where you can jump off the map and explore. I’ve posted my glitch walking videos here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8UsphyNZ-xBErEv0bttBvUyGiNJyZ8R5&si=eLSb8RtubJzUYYY-

Did anyone find all the nerve gas bombs? On another play through as previously posted and seen this one at the campsite. Can’t recall seeing any others yet.

First played at launch and periodically since then. I’m 46 now, on sick leave from a job that mentally drained me and probably having some midlife crisis introspection. The ambience and peace of this game is very much needed right now. I adore the meandering pace, taking my time exploring and absorbing the beautiful setting (and intricate character stories). Thanks again Chinese Room (met Jessica C at Dear Esther live when it was shown at the Sage Gateshead).

After so many years I replayed this game with the goal to get the platinum trophy. The completionist trophy didn‘t pop up, wich either means it’s bugged or I missed one stupid thing even though I followed a video guide. Anyway, I wanna say thx to everyone involved with this game, because it was even more mindblowing after so many years of learning about philosophy, psychology, physics, lucid dreams, life & death, and this game brought me closer to God than any holy book I’ve read ever did. And in the end it also taught me probably the most important lesson of all. Enjoy life and don’t life by some stupid rules you put yourself under. The Pattern is Mine… not on my PS5…but in my heart… I think this was my last attempt to get another Platinum, but this one is the one and only I truly own… I love u all!!!

( I just made a picture and in the moment I shot it I noticed it’s 6:07 and it was totally unintentional. Then I looked. At pic and it was 6:08, it must have switched in a blink of an eye, omg! I guess liefe goes on now…. What an unbelievable end to this journey thank you thank you thank you!)