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Oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep gets release date

Everybody's gone to the rupture.

A twisted metal walkway is illuminated by supernatural orange light in this screenshot from Still Wakes the Deep.
Image credit: The Chinese Room

Still Wakes the Deep, the promising-looking narrative horror game set on an oil rig, will launch for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 18th June.

This is the much-anticipated next project from British studio The Chinese Room, which previously made Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Set on a remote Scottish oil rig in the 1970s, Still Wakes the Deep looks to be an atmospheric period horror piece with a dash of the supernatural and plenty of psychological fear elements. You play as a worker on the platform, initially surrounded by a crew - at least, until disaster strikes.

A brand new trailer for Still Wakes the Deep.Watch on YouTube

"Vertigo, drowning, claustrophobia, all the classic fears are on an oil rig," creative director John McCormack listed off to me previously, when I took a deep dive into the inspiration behind the game. "And the distance from land, if communication drops, you're cut off." Yep, I'm suitably chilled just re-reading that.

Still Wakes the Deep is designed to be a natural evolution of the studio's narrative-focused games of old, with an increased focus on gameplay as you attempt to survive aboard the oil rig as its areas shift and its mysteries unfold.

It's been a good while since the last game from The Chinese Room - four years since the smaller Little Orpheus, and almost a decade since the beloved Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. I visited The Chinese Room late last year to find out what it's been up to in the meantime.

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