About Still Wakes the Deep

Still Wakes the Deep marks a return to first-person narrative horror for The Chinese Room, the studio behind acclaimed titles such as Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther. Set on an offshore oil rig in 1970s Scotland, it casts you as a worker fighting to survive a vicious storm, treacherous surroundings and the freezing dark of the North Sea. Every line of communication has been cut, every exit sealed, and something unknowable has come aboard.

The experience runs about six hours and leans hard into atmosphere, pairing world-class visuals and audio with writing from the award-winning studio, a star-studded voice cast that includes Alec Newman and Neve McIntosh, and a haunting soundtrack by Jason Graves. The rig itself is richly detailed and shifts as the story unfolds, immersing you in an authentic North Sea disaster.

Survival here means relying on wits alone, since you have no weapons and no special abilities. You avoid, distract and sneak past a relentless foe while running, climbing and swimming through the ruins of the platform, praying you might one day see your family again. It all builds toward a tense action-horror journey through the beauty and ferocity of the sea on PC.