The Chinese Room returns with a new first-person horror title, Still Wakes The Deep, and we’ll tell you what it’s about. Read all the details, in this note!
He Xbox Games Showcase 2023 marked the return of one of the most interesting narrative and horror game developers on the market. Is about The Chinese Roomwhich presented Still Wakes The Deep with a new gameplay trailer, and confirming that it will arrive in early 2024 to Xbox, PlayStation and PCand will be available from day one in GamePass. Set on an offshore oil platform in the middle of the ocean, we will assume the role of a worker who fights for his life in the middle of a fierce storm.
As for the details of the story, it is December 1975 and after a disaster occurs on the oil rig Beira D Off the coast of Scotland, we must move through the collapsing site to save its crew. The storm is not the only threat. The player will also have to face a “terrifying and relentless enemy” who boarded and gives chase.
“All lines of communication were cut“, says the description of the game. “All the exits disappeared. The only thing left is to face the unfathomable horror that has come aboard. Find your crew and help them survive if you can. Run, climb and swim through flooded corridors and storm-battered outer decks“.
In case you don’t know The Chinese Room, the studio is popular for its narrative and atmospheric adventure games, sometimes misnamed “walking simulators”. His titles include Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther. An official release date has yet to be confirmed for Still Wakes the Deepbut more details can be found on the official website.