Still Wakes The Deep (styled in all-caps) is an upcoming Survival Horror game created by The Chinese Room.
The game focuses on Caz McLeary, a middle-aged electrician working aboard the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. On Christmas Day 1975, a severe storm hits the rig, damaging it heavily; and in the process, unleashes something unearthly from the depths of the ocean. Now, Caz finds himself in a fight to stay alive and avoid whatever's now aboard his workplace if he is to reunite with his family again.
The game will be released on 18 June 2024 and will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Playstation 5 and Microsoft Windows via Steam.
Previews: Announcement trailer
, Gameplay trailer,Release date announcement trailer
Still Wakes The Deep provides examples of:
- The '70s: The game is set on Christmas Day, 1975.
- Action Survivor Caz is a regular oil rig worker with no means of defending himself who must run, jump and swim through the collapsing rig in order to survive the ordeal he's found himself in and is described as being "not an action hero".
- Anyone Can Die: Yes, even you.
- Closed Circle: The game is set on an oil rig in the North Sea off Scotland.
- Eldritch Abomination: Whatever the creature is, it's certainly not of this world.
- Escape Sequence: A scene in the announcement trailer shows Caz slamming and locking a door on something running at it towards him.
- The Everyman: All of the oil rig workers are this.
- From Bad to Worse: A storm hits the oil rig then an entity makes its' way onto said rig, hunting Caz and his colleagues down.
- The Many Deaths of You: There are numerous ways for Caz to unexpectedly meet his end at various points in the game.
- Nothing Is Scarier: The aforementioned Escape Sequence ensures the viewer never gets a proper look at the creature pursuing Caz, though an inhuman scream can be heard as it happens.
- Primal Fear: The game deals heavily with the themes of fear and isolation through.
- Run or Die: The protagonist must do a lot of maneuvering in order to survive a crumbling oil rig and the mysterious entity aboard it.
- Sole Survivor: Caz can become this based on his decisions...
- Twisted Christmas: Instead of spending Christmas with his family on the mainland, Caz ends up having to survive a double assault on his place of occupation.
- Video Game Caring Potential: ...Or Caz can actively work to save his coworkers and keep them alive to the end.
