Still Wakes the Deep

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  • Summary: STILL WAKES THE DEEP is a first-person narrative horror from The Chinese Room, creator of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther.

    In STILL WAKES THE DEEP, you are an off-shore oil rig worker, fighting for his life through a vicious storm, perilous    STILL WAKES THE DEEP is a first-person narrative horror from The Chinese Room, creator of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther.

    In STILL WAKES THE DEEP, you are an off-shore oil rig worker, fighting for his life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters. All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. All that remains is to face the unknowable horror that's come aboard.

    Search for your crew and help them survive if you can. Run, climb, and swim through the flooding corridors and storm-lashed outer decks. Face a terrifying, unrelenting foe. And pray that, one day, you get to see your family again.    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Jimquisition
    Jun 23, 2024
    95
    Still Wakes the Deep is an impeccable horror production, a gorgeously sickening nightmare in a rarely used setting propelled by stellar acting and sublimely nasty body horror. It’s more than just “The Thing on an oil rig,” though it makes good on that elevator pitch too. It’s going to remain with me for a long time. A true genre classic.
  2. Xbox Achievements
    Jun 17, 2024
    90
    Still Wakes the Deep is wonderfully, authentically Scottish – even the carpets on the Beira D oil rig are tartan. It's also a singularly immersive and utterly memorable piece of work that's among The Chinese Room's very best.
  3. Generación Xbox
    Jun 17, 2024
    87
    Although the first few bars didn't tell me much about the title except that it looked like another walking simulator with scares, it was the complete package that left me excited. The combination of a very powerful visual aspect, an incredible sound fidelity, a rhythm that encourages you to know more and an action that catches you, results in Still Wakes the Deep being one of the best cinematographic style titles you can find. Nowadays.
  4. GamePro Germany
    Jun 17, 2024
    82
    Atmospherically gripping but playfully shallow oil rig horror trip with engaging sound design.
  5. Gamereactor UK
    Jun 17, 2024
    80
    The Chinese Room has succeeded brilliantly with their original pitch of The Thing on an oil rig, while infusing the horror with the emotion that characterised a game like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. It's the kind of game that, with relatively few mechanics, manages to create immersion with great sound design, evocative visuals and believable storytelling.
  6. SomosXbox
    Jun 17, 2024
    78
    The Chinese Room returns with its most ambitious game in nearly a decade: a terrifying, lovecraftian experience that shines at the tension moments and setting, but not always delivering in the narrative side.
  7. ZTGD
    Jun 26, 2024
    70
    Still Wakes the Deep is a fun romp for its short playthrough. The lack of environmental storytelling and exploration is really where it falls apart. Still, this being on Game Pass makes it worth checking out for sure. I enjoyed my time with it, but I don’t think it will stick with me like titles such as Soma and Amnesia have.

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#18 Best Xbox Series X Game of 2024