Still Wakes the Deep
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality.
Still Wakes the Deep is an adventure developed by The Chinese Room, released 18 June 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.49 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 6.2 hrs to finish.
What Still Wakes the Deep is
Still Wakes the Deep is an adventure game developed by The Chinese Room and released in 2024. It was published by Secret Mode. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are an off-shore oil rig worker, fighting for your life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters. All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. All that remains is to face the unknowable horror that’s come aboard.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Still Wakes the Deep holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 116 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.2 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.49, that works out to about $0.56 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA RTX 2050 / AMD RX 6000 / Intel® Arc™ A550 Graphics Card. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 9GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.49 at IndieGala, 90% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹375.00 (about $3.93), while United Kingdom pays £7.49 — 2.5 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 4 on Steam, which is about $4.37.
What it launched against
Still Wakes the Deep launched on 18 June 2024, within three weeks of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Nine Sols, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance and Once Human. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Nine Sols, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Once Human.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Still Wakes the Deep yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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