Still Wakes the Deep review: Horror, isolation, and the North Sea, all beautifully brought to life
Review info Platform reviewed: PS5 Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC Release date: June 18, 2024 Still Wakes the Deep is a beautifully crafted juxtaposition of the manmade, natural, and supernatural. This narrative-led, survival horror game from developer The Chinese Room is a brief but chilling adventure on the Beira D, a North Sea oil rig, set during the 1970s. You play as Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary, a humble electrician who has traveled to the rig for some escapism – in more than one sense. After the rig goes about its normal business on a normal December day, something happens. The rig changes. The crew changes. It soon becomes apparent that something else is now on board with Caz, and he must bring parts of the rig back from the brink in order to find his crewmates and work out what’s going on. You soon learn that you can never escape the entity attacking and changing the Beira D, so making your way off the rig with as many crew as you possibly can becomes Caz’s ma...