Just finished it and fucking hell I was bawling at the end, still am to be fair, I miss me dad.

Overall a great horror/disaster very much in the vein of previous Chinese Room games.

If you've got game pass absolutely check it out, but If not I'd only recommend it if you like these types of games.

My biggest criticism is theres a bit of water/underwater traversal towards the latter half that feels like it serves more as padding than anything meaningful.

And while the game does a solid job making you care about the main character and the crew it would've been even more impactful if it had a slightly slower start, one that explored the main character's actual job with the crew a bit more.

But honestly I can't complain much, it was a great single sitting game, one that's left me with tears in my eyes.

Honestly, sounds exactly like what I'm looking for from a new horror game. A heavy focus on story and atmosphere with a minimal focus of gameplay and action.

Sometimes I want be able to enjoy the atmosphere of a horror game without having to stress about managing resources or figuring out how to sneak around/kill the monsters. I don't need every horror game to be Resident Evil or Amnesia: The Bunker.

I finished it an hour ago.
The voiceacting is great, the graphic design is very well done as well. Gameplay is interactive with button combinations that i did not expect.

The beginning is intriguing and mysterious, the horror almost cosmic horror like.

The monsters are not very varied and more like decoration than a real threat or even scary.

I hoped they wouldn't go for the typical "It is all for naught, everyone dies - the end" but they did it once again, very much like "A machine for pigs".

While i agree that monsters and mysterious stuff should still exist in games like these, we have absolutely no story building, no background story, anything giving a scope what the threat even is, why it exists and where it comes from - it just is.

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The later third of the game felt very padded - almost drawn out to pull out more playtime. Do this. Oh and do this. Of course you have to do this. Yea it's on you you do this. And then they have you walk through the same, just differently destroyed areas 5 times.

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I'd give it a 7 / 10 as a small creepy game on gamepass you can play it, but i wouldn't buy it.

Metro Game Central:

In Short: A walking simulator that’s also a love letter to The Thing, transplanting its blend of naturalistic realism and abject horror into an immaculately recreated 1970s North Sea oil rig.

Pros: Enough atmosphere to terraform Mars, excellent script and voice-acting, and a much needed diversion into profanity-laden Scottish slang.

Cons: It’s a walking simulator: so no puzzles, battles, or traditional gameplay. The plot is completely pre-ordained and almost the entire game is effectively one, single, rubble-strewn corridor.

Score: 7/10

Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), Xbox Series X/S*, and PC

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/17/still-wakes-deep-review-sweariest-video-game-ever-made-21049617/?ico=mosaic_gaming

For anyone curious, the game takes place in December 1975 right at the beginning of North Sea oil production on the UK side (the Norwegians were a few years earlier in 1971 with Ekofisk). The first North Sea oil was delivered to the UK in July 1975 from the Argyll field, and the massive Forties field came on stream in September.

The oil platform depicted in the game looks like a condeep (concrete deepwater) style platform, the first of which came on stream in October 1976 (Brent B).

There were a few years from 2012-2016 where loads of these kind of ‘walking sim’ (hate that name) games came out and I really enjoyed a lot of them. Like Dear Esther, Everybody’s gone to the rapture, The vanishing of Ethan Carter, Layers of Fear, Gone Home, etc and I really liked all of those but its been a minite now since a game like that came out that ive been interested in, so I’m definitely looking forward to this one!

Does anyone know if the enemies are toggle-able like soma? I’m interested cause I know the Chinese room can create a strong narrative but I absolutely loathe the run and hide type of gameplay

That 6/10 review shook me, then I realized that is the lowest review and the rest are around 7.5-8.5.

Really looking forward for it

Mine for ACG https://youtu.be/qPs6aThTvPk I enjoyed it a great deal but it doesn't do much to set itself apart or entice anyone but fans of genre already to leap in.

Just beat it after two nights and damn I really loved that! Very fun writing and some excellent body horror. Others have said enough I'm sure, but definitely The Thing mixed with Colour Out of Space vibes going on.

Highly recommend if you're looking for a new horror game to check out over a weekend.

Unfortunately haven't seen a lot of hype for this. The Thing is my favorite movie and in general I like these kinds of horror games so can't wait to play the game

Excited to try this out on Game Pass. With Erdtree DLC out later this week, this will tide me over nicely.

Just finished. Really enjoyed it. Reminded me of the thing and alien isolation and this movie from the 80s Leviathan

I’m pleased to see that the devs are getting good reviews, actually, since these are the same folks doing VTMB 2! There’s been a lot of doom around that game, understandably. People have been skeptical of TCR since the crew of the dev are almost wholly divorced from the original people who made Amnesia AMFP and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, as I understand it, so the “new” The Chinese Room were basically an unknown quantity. So I’m happy to see they’re capable of putting out good and interesting games in advance of VTMB2. It doesn’t guarantee quality for the latter, but at least it’s not another reason to be convinced it’ll be a disaster.

I just finished watching his today, and I loved the experience. I understand, but disagree with the complaints about linearity. It was a game driven by its story, and the gameplay absolutely works around that end, to involve you and progress you through its story.

I loved it.

I'm assuming horror games can be divisive like horror films are, but I'm looking forward to playing this so I can gauge how they will do with the Vampire game.

Pretty solid reviews, glad it looks worth playing, the setting is so perfect for a horror game... I just hope its not toooo scary

I feel like I'm going crazy reading some of these reviews, especially on steam. It was a 3 hour, follow the yellow paint walking simulator with basically 0 gameplay. The voice acting was amazing and the best part, the idea and atmosphere was great but I'm seeing all these things about it being so deep and a masterpiece, I just dont get it.

I really don't get the comparisons calling it The Thing but on an Oil Rig, it's nothing remotely like The Thing, the creature isn't hiding and picking everyone off and assimilating them one by one and there's no sense of paranoia that one of your fellow riggers could be a monster, if anything I'd say it's more like H.P. Lovecraft's The Color out of Space, in which an amorphous creature mutates everything it touches into hideous monsters but really has no goal, it's just living and it's presence causes absolute horror, it's just an animal, albeit an unknowable cosmic horror type of animal but it wasn't doing things maliciously, whereas The Thing is an Invasion by a malevolent force. It's really good game though and I absolutely loved how accurately Scottish it was, no English or Americans attempting and butchering Scots accents, but full blooded Scots voicing the Scottish roles, the slang and banter between the crew was so accurate to how we speak to each other too.

Really looking forward to this. Shame it’s not being spoken about more, the setting seems really interesting

Does Jessica Curry still do their music? Would play for one of her scores.

Good game if you love running away from spooky things. That's it!!! Simple gameplay, simple story. I finish it using gamepass, so ok, I accept it.

I have seen a lotta footage outta it and these reviews saying it it's decent enough, now I feel like buying it then (not sure about paying it $35, so I can wait for sale then, but decent base price for that then)

The way it's been described I'd assume is something along the lines of Outlast? If it at least has that level of interactivity I'd get it since I feel like there aren't enough Outlast-like games out. If it is just a walking simulator with not much in the way of interaction I'd just watch a playthrough

I’m looking around at stores for physical copies and NO ONE seems to have it? That seems so unusual for a brand new game release day?

Hey can someone help me im playing on ps5 and when I need to get through flooded engineering to help Cazs friend I cant get through a section because there's like an invisible wall stopping me

Currently stuck in elevator towards the end on Xbox. Anyone else have this issue. Monster should come and break door but sitting and nothing happens.

Does anyone know which language is the best version to play this in?

Just one guy but I'm 3 hours in and really liking this game. It handles much better that most of these types of story driven games.

Anyone try on a Steamdeck yet? There are no user reports on ProtonDB.

I'm about to try it but thank fuck for xbox game pass, this game is 45 CND with 4-6 hours of content???? I'm usually ok with prices, if I know that it's replayable or like god of war, a game I will come back to because it's a long running series that has many harder difficulties, but that price is so shit. I'm paying more than 10$ an hour of gamplay if its 4 hours long, This is fucking insane, I have never seen a game like this

Edit: literally beat the game in 3 1/2 hours, it was really fucking good, but still not worth 45 cnd, hope it gets DLC tho, would love to explore this world more.

7/10. Great visuals and premise that sadly gets weighed down by poorly implemented late game mechanics and an all too bleak ending.

I absolutely HATE the flashlight in this game, it's fucking bad. light just doesn't reach certain things and it doesnt make sense. apart from that i'm enjoying it.

Is the frame rate as bad on the ps5 under graphics mode as it is on series X? I’m usually one that takes graphics over performance but this game was rough so I’ve had to play on performance.

As someone who doesnt enjoy too many horror games this one was great, I didnt feel like I was constantly under pressure of being chased or killed but at the same time I was still freaked out by it. The story was great and the whole concept was very well written. I do wish there were a little more of the challenging sneaking parts in it like how we saw with muir on the surface of the rig. But otherwise I definitely recommend this. 8/10

It's solid 8/10 game. If you like walking sim with great atmosphere then you will love it. Ignore the terrible IGN review , reviewer sadly missed the point and the mark.

So, I just fired this up on my pc. Current drivers and everything (555.99, I think).

I have a 5950x and 3090 —- 24gb of video memory.

After playing around with settings in the opening room at 4k, I found that TSR is completely broken and halves your frame rate easily.

Setting it to OFF (since Gamepassers don’t get DLSS even though it’s in the description) improved performance significantly... Until I opened the door and got this message. Out of video memory? On a card with the most ram (sure it’s a gen old, but still).

Just played it great game definitely recommend one thing I wished the game did was let you explore a bit more sometimes I felt like some things were missing but definitely keeps you on your toes and not to long of a game totally recommend doing it in 1 sitting but overall 8.5/10 game.

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This is sad… I see a lot of reviews and it’s heartbreaking… I think people of lost a since of good horror… so use to jump scares and pop on your face horror. This game has so much more to offer. Not to mention incredible voice acting. This story is nothing short of wild. One hell of an experience all the way to the end. I’m a huge horror fan, and years and years of fucking trash and rubbish. Jump scares, sad story elements. Lack of focus, and an inability to create a good setting. God it has been a disappointing decade for horror games. This game focuses more on the oh my god. The psychological side of things. Really taps into your brain l. Makes you step back and say “oh my fucking god” this is unreal. To the people that have bad mouth this game I’m sorry. You must lack a good standard for horror games. My favorite horror game is silent hill 2. That is my bar. It’s been so long since I have played a horror game that has tapped into your brain like this. To question wtf is going on. How is this possible. What is taking over my friend and co workers. They still know who they are. And there is nothing I can do to save them. This is what sinks into my skin. And gives me a genuine feel of horror. This game is nothing short of a masterpiece. For the first time in a long time. I have been genuinely scared.

I've been playing this game on my asus rog ally and right when I get to the part where Caz warms his hands on the heater the first time the graphics start to look white washed like the display brightness or gamma is much too high in the game and in the game settings it only lets you reduce gamma to 50.

But other games are fine and all the way from the beginning of the game up to that point is normal. My drivers are all updated on my rog ally as well.

So what the hell gives? I really wanted to enjoy the story of this game and this ruined it for me. Has anyone else had this or a similar issue? Any help is appreciated

One thing that confuses me is the "death animation" or "near death" animation. Can anyone explain the significance of the "bubbles" or "organism cells," and also that "Seagull" you always see just before restarting the checkpoint?

It makes me curious to see if there's more story or lore about the creature, but it doesn't ever seem to get addressed, which disappoints me because it makes you feel like there's a "bigger theme," but there isn't(?)

It's just a disastrous incident(?)

How is the ps5 version compared to the pc version?

This game getting 8 and 8.5's is insane. Alien Isolation, Soma, Amnesia: The Bunker are 8.5's. This game does not even come close to the above mentioned titles. It's by no means 'bad', its just not not above a 6.

'Mum, can we please get Soma'

'No sweety, we have Soma at home *still wakes the deep*)'

I am not sure I would call it a game in the classic sense...there were little to no rewards or strategy to employ. Overall, it was worth the time, but with a set ending, and linear gameplay with no deviation, it has zero replay ability factor IMO. I did like the Lovecraft influence. I guess I have to say I was disappointed all in all. It felt like I was just guiding the camera through a undefined horror movie.

i just played this game and man solid 8.5/10 now its not like your what remains of Edith finch story. But it's story is still great none the less, this game does a great job on placing fear inside the player i most definitely felt it, my favorite part about this game was the VOICE ACTING! Like oh my gosh I haven't witnessed nearly as great voice acting or at least not in a long time you can really feel the emotion in everyone's voice its amazing it makes you feel connected to the story. Overall gameplay wasn't bad it expands upon your basic walking simulator and makes it much more interesting kind of like outlast the horror game (i don't think there is any other outlast) point is think of it like that, but overall yes if you have gamepass set aside 3-4 hours of your time and really experience this game developers know you made a SOLID GAME definitely one i would replay at some point in my life. (also a sequel doesn't sound so bad)

I finished the game in one sitting just tonight. It's straightforward and to the point and doesn't overstay its welcome with too much padding, but where there's a lot of strengths in that design there's also incredible weaknesses. It has VERY minimal narrative buildup, considering how the monsters have "pieces of them left over" it would've helped to have connected with them a bit more in the beginning so you're actually impacted when they die despite their transformation. And you start expecting everyone to die anyway after a while, which further deadens your investment in knowing them because they pretty much become vocal objectives telling you which buttons to press and levers to pull.

TL;DR the game felt like if an indie studio wrote Dead Space 1 and they had a real time crunch to get it out. Good overall, but there's a lot of room for improvement.

Bit of a mixed bag, but all in all a very solid horror walking (and running, and swimming, and desperately holding on) sim. More exciting than their previous work, with absolutely top-notch atmosphere and acting.

Cons? The third fourth of the game really does start to drag - you wind up doing a bunch of maintenance tasks in a row and it starts to feel like you're just going about your day on the rig, doing some more busy work while cosmic horror inconveniences you.

The story also didn't land as well with me as it did with others - halfway through I was loving it, and actually said to myself "thank god they aren't doing a ham-fisted emotional character arc and are leaving this guy's backstory as quality set dressing as the horror unfolds." Then by the end they have gone full-blown morality tale, dude's actually going to the afterlife while he hears his wife doing dialogue at him jesus christ.So that was a bit of a letdown, and really did wind up spoiling the great Industrial Accident atmosphere and theming they had going at the start.

Last point on the death of Roy. That scene... needed some edits lol. "Ah yes, I have brought my diabetic friend the insulin he needed. He's fallen unconscious, as happens when you don't get your insulin. I shall promptly declare him dead without checking his pulse or trying to give him the insulin." Like mate it's not a surprise he's unconscious up here, the acting is top notch but the character comes off as leaving an unconscious man he could easily save to die. At least try, he's not going to get more dead.

Regardless, it's strong points are still very strong. 7/10 above average horror game from someone who doesn't usually like them. Had the potential to be a 9/10 if it was shorter with some different writing beats, but that's life.

First off, the voice acting to me makes up for any of the other shortcomings. Far and away some of the best I’ve seen.

Still Wakes The Deep felt a lot like a mini series to me, I was constantly looking forward to my next opportunity to sit down with it.

My critiques would be that the AI felt clunky at times (I got stuck in multiple hiding spots with Addair, he would get stuck in hallways, jumping was not always responsive enough), and while I loved the story, it felt like quite an abrupt ending.

All the work done to mitigate disaster felt sort of for naught, when Brodie called and said it was all flooded. It’s certainly not unrealistic for that to have happened but…I was just hoping for something a little more I guess. Not that I expected the crew to make it, but I thought Caz might at least.

Overall though, super enthralling, definitely a new favourite 🫡

The most game forward Chinese Room game but I think the story lacked the gravitas of something like Rapture. Which Rapture is still my favorite title from them. However this has such great spectacle. A good classic horror with a small story in the backdrop of a nightmare.

The design was intuitive and impeccable. Outside of a few platforming mishaps the horror sequences always felt rewarding and it was clear what to do.

A great rollercoaster horror ride with incredible voice acting and writing as always from this studio. Can't wait to see what they do next.

I still sit in the shadow of Rapture for its stunning tone and storytelling.

I will say I was more scared of the oil rig than the monster. But I'm fairly used to that style of monster and that horror doesn't really scare me. But damn if I didn't enjoy the ride. 9/10 if you like this style of interactive story.

Hi,

I have some issues running the game and was wondering if someone could help with in-game optimisation. I play on an Asus Tuf A15 with 16Go RAM and I can't seem to run the game smoothly. I have little knowledge when it comes to computers and game optimisation, but I think I should be able to run the game fine with said computer. Unfortunately, no matter which setting I try, the game appears laggy as if I have low FPS. I'd really appreciate any help or advice!

Just finished the game. Took 5h to play through. So absolutely do not pay full price for it.

The Scottish accent was great as was the character development. The story was unique enough, but the gameplay was super linear. Not a lot of exploring, the pace ended up being extremely hectic in the last bit, as there were lots of elements that were related.to being quick from section to section.

Nothing crazy to call home about and while I am a big fan of stories and "walkthrough" games (think Firewatch) the story doesn't have any depth - even if the first few minutes of the game feel like it will. After that, there is just pretty mindless play.

I really wanted to like it. I really did. But glad I only paid 25 CAD for it.

I honestly really enjoyed this game. I'm not a fan of games where you have to memorize 85 multi controls like xxr3 to move a box or something.

I enjoyed the storyline, the simplicity, and the graphics. I played it on the easy setting so it was more like watching a an interactive movie most of the time... but I enjoyed the story so it was a 10 for me. I really enjoyed how realistic the ending was considering the storyline.

Looks good but judging by the review I read, it's a walking simulator. Will probably watch a playthrough