Developers SCE Santa Monica Studio and The Chinese Room have released a brand-new trailer for the upcoming Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.

Dan Pinchbeck, creative director at The Chinese Room, revealed on the PlayStation Blog that the trailer focuses on “the tone and story of the game,” with the development team intentionally making the video feel “small and intimate” for the viewer.

According to Pinchbeck, an official release date for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture will be announced soon, while the beta for the title will be launching in the coming weeks on PlayStation 4.

“Everyone’s time is split between chewing through bugs and carving out time for as much polish and finesse as we can,” Pinchbeck explained.

“There’s always something that can be improved. Late tweaks to design, signposting, player flow, discovery -- this is all still happening. Rotating a prop by a few degrees can make a dramatic difference to how you navigate a space, or the likelihood of encouraging an area to be explored in more detail.

“Small adjustments to things like audio volume, or the area boundaries of ambient or procedural sound, can have an impact on the emotional tone of a space or moment, which has a knock-on effect to things like pacing or the interpretation of a story beat.”

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, which entered its alpha build earlier this year, also places an emphasis on the music being used, and Pinchbeck believes that it “is going to be one of the highlights of game music this year.”

Described by Pinchbeck as “an apocalypse like no other,” Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an open-world story-driven title centring upon six characters in the English countryside following the end of the world.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is expected to launch in the summer of 2015 exclusively for PS4.

“The Mourning Tree,” a song from Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture soundtrack, has also been released on SoundCloud. Check it out below.

https://soundcloud.com/playstation/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-the-mourning-tree