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.
What it feels like
A slow-building anticipatory fear permeates the experience as players confront an incomprehensible threat. An active, present supernatural threat actively hunts the player and crew throughout the rig. The crushing weight of a failing structure, crew peril, and an unstoppable otherworldly threat creates suffocating atmospheric pressure.
What it's about
An otherworldly horror 'on the edge of all logic and reality' driving dread and incomprehensibility is the core threat. Otherworldly, reality-bending horror forces are real and central to the setting and conflict. Trapped on a collapsing offshore rig with a crew facing incomprehensible horror creates profound isolation.
How it plays
Avoiding detection and navigating threats through stealth is a core mechanic for surviving the horror. Awareness of the creature's presence and line-of-sight drives tension and evasion. Interaction with crew members and story progression involves branching dialogue choices affecting narrative.
How it looks and sounds
The game is experienced entirely through a first-person perspective as the player navigates the oil rig. High-fidelity rendering of the industrial rig and environments aims for visceral realism grounding the horror. The industrial oil rig setting emphasizes worn metal, rust, and the grimy texture of industrial machinery under catastrophic stress.
How it's structured
Designed as a single-player narrative experience with no multiplayer component. A bounded, authored story arc with a definite beginning, middle, and end unfolds across the rig's collapse. Progress through the collapsing rig follows a largely linear path from start to finish.
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