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[adamsapple]

Are we allowed subtitles?

The subtitles are in Scottish Gaelic

The language remains in 'English', but they use a lot of Scottish quips in the dialogue, and when you have English subtitles, the game is nice enough to give out plain-english subtitles for moments like that.

If you're aiming for 100%, well worth doing 2 runs and save changing the language for the second. Get all the notes etc you can find in the first so you know as much of the story. Without needing to collect things and just following the story objective marker through and through, you can beat it in around 2 hours.

 

[Arsic]

Christ that looks excellent, like many others have mentioned an oil rig is a criminally underused location for these sort of games/shows, tempted to splurge

Those shots convinced me to play it this week. It’s only 4-6 hours which is a perfect slice of fun.

 

[bender]

Finally acclimated to the accents which reminds me of when I read Trainspotting (thank God they had a glossary of terms in that book). With the way this game hands out achievements, it's going to take me weeks to finish. haha

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

How does it compare to Soma (my favorite in the genre) ?

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

I hate this game so much. I find it incredibly boring and I'm having a hard time staying motivated even though it's supposed to be quite short. 3.5/10 so far.

 

[Flabagast]

How does it compare to Soma (my favorite in the genre) ?

Clearly not as good, especially in the story department, and not as immersive and imaginative. They are not in the same tier at all imho

But still it’s pretty nice, the audio visual design is top notch

 

[MacReady13]

The game is now live on Game Pass.

Seriously, just buy the fucking game and support devs making great games like this. Fuck Microsoft and their subscription bullshit.

Anyway, game is fantastic and I’m happy to have purchased the game to support the devs to help them fund more classics like this.

 

[adamsapple]

Seriously, just buy the fucking game and support devs making great games like this. Fuck Microsoft and their subscription bullshit.

Anyway, game is fantastic and I’m happy to have purchased the game to support the devs to help them fund more classics like this.

 

[havoc00]

Seriously, just buy the fucking game and support devs making great games like this. Fuck Microsoft and their subscription bullshit.

Anyway, game is fantastic and I’m happy to have purchased the game to support the devs to help them fund more classics like this.

If it wasnt for GP I would have neve knew this game existed

 

[Jesb]

Why the fuck do I need to use a mouse to start this game. Fuck these lazy developers.

 

[BigLee74]

Seriously, just buy the fucking game and support devs making great games like this. Fuck Microsoft and their subscription bullshit.

Anyway, game is fantastic and I’m happy to have purchased the game to support the devs to help them fund more classics like this.

I’m happy to buy an Xbox and subscribe to Gamepass so I can play games like this and MS can support devs by giving them a big up front cheque.

 

[MacReady13]

If it wasnt for GP I would have neve knew this game existed

I don’t have game pass and I knew this existed. Funny that…

 

[adamsapple]

Games don't usually 'get' me but the vent chase got me good.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Games don't usually 'get' me but the vent chase got me good.

I assume the look back button is for streamers who want the audience to see whats chasing them.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Completed it mate. Good length, all killer and no filler. Was sad when

Spoiler: STORY SPOILER

our boy Roy dies

and

Spoiler: STORY SPOILER

listening to Brodie on the phone at the end

With all the stupid bullshit DEI shite around, it was nice to see a game about some honest nobody working class men.

All the characters were real and the dialogue and banter was 100% accurate to the kind of folk on the estates and in the flats.

Will be thinking about this game long after playing it.

I award it 4 pints of stout out of 4 pints.

 

[Umbral]

Looking forward to this, this review from Checkpoint gaming "but when horror as a genre is moving in some seriously impressive and unique directions, Still Wakes the Deep feels a little bit stuck in the past. What horror games are moving the genre forward exactly?

Amnesia: The Bunker

 

[Bartski]

Amnesia: The Bunker

+1. Imo too many people slept on this game, it's fantastic. If you guys liked Still Wakes The Deep and haven't played The Bunker - you're missing out

 

[Roberts]

+1. Imo too many people slept on this game, it's fantastic. If you guys liked Still Wakes The Deep and haven't played The Bunker - you're missing out

I was onboard with The Bunker for quite a while but then I ran away from you-know-who, hid under the table in some deadend room with only one exit and it decided to stay there so I couldn't leave. Waited for what seems like an eternity and then decided to uninstall the game.

 

[SnapShot]

Aye this was fockin good game mate

 

[Negotiator101]

Amnesia: The Bunker

What's it doing to move the genre forward though?

 

[tommib]

Games don't usually 'get' me but the vent chase got me good.

I never used the function to look back because it was anxiety inducing. Better not to know how close that thing was.

 

[STARSBarry]

+1. Imo too many people slept on this game, it's fantastic. If you guys liked Still Wakes The Deep and haven't played The Bunker - you're missing out

I literally came into this thread because while o finished this day 1 I felt it was missing something compared to say Soma which is the same style of game but just better...


And

Amnesia: The Bunker

Like this game is in a class of its own, it's like a much better Alien Isolation that doesn't overstay its welcome and is mechanically superior.

The Bunker will always be my go to suggestion for small scale horror. This was enjoyable, but I never found it scary... I guess I'm just too used to The Thing to find what they did here scary, the giant head monster made me laugh actually... like from a design stand point I just found it funny. I think the best is the vent chase people have mentioned, probably because he looked the most human, giant meat balls just arnt scary.

Solid 7/10 but most of that is the stella characters, voice work and location... the game itself as just a walking sim is too on rails with very little to do outside of the set path, I feel like if they had expended it with more optional paths and secrets it would be a much better title.

 

[Flabagast]

What's it doing to move the genre forward though?

Quite a lot actually, have you played it ?

 

[calistan]

Uninstalled it in a rage during the scene where you're crossing the deck of the rig while hiding from a big monster thing. There's a scene where you drop and break some crates, and you're clearly meant to run like hell towards the next hiding place, but the monster got me five or six times in a row. Respawn, die, repeat. GTFO my hard drive!

Before that I found that the melting film 'danger' effect made it hard to navigate, particularly in the dark, so it wasn't a difficult decision to abandon this one.

 

[Negotiator101]

Quite a lot actually, have you played it ?

No, the reviews don't suggest it's anything special but I'll give it a go.

 

[Umbral]

What's it doing to move the genre forward though?

Blending immersive sim gameplay with horror along with a touch of randomness in item placement to make the game replayable and slightly different each time through.

It might have the most difficulty customization options I’ve seen in a game. I’m really excited for what Frictional decides to do next. The Bunker was top shelf.

 

[kittoo]

Completed it mate. Good length, all killer and no filler. Was sad when

Spoiler: STORY SPOILER

our boy Roy dies

and

Spoiler: STORY SPOILER

listening to Brodie on the phone at the end

With all the stupid bullshit DEI shite around, it was nice to see a game about some honest nobody working class men.

All the characters were real and the dialogue and banter was 100% accurate to the kind of folk on the estates and in the flats.

Will be thinking about this game long after playing it.

I award it 4 pints of stout out of 4 pints.

Sums up my thoughts just about perfectly.
Great game. Just the perfect length too for its setting and gameplay. Amazing voice acting. Game is Dripping with atmosphere.

Buy it lads!

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Perfect title if you're into The Chinese Room storytelling and love Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as much as I do.

The visuals (terrific use of UE5 by a small dedicated team), the atmosphere and the voiceover are top-notch. I'm no scottish, but the true thick accents are sublime, even though I've relied on subtitles a bit much more than I've liked. Horror is surprisingly effective and very true to Carpenter's spirit too. Plus really love the familiar bittersweet tastre in the story. If you know - you know.

 

[Matsuchezz]

I just finished it last night and it was great, I loved it. The acting was good, visuals are good too, the look back button is great, I was expecting some strange sea creature like DeepStar Six but it was good fun.

 

[MacReady13]

Finished it yesterday. Really enjoyed it. Perfect length. Didn't outstay it's welcome. Good story. Good characters. Amazing graphics and the atmosphere was on point. Well worth buying this game to support these devs. 4 out of 5 for me.

 

[analog_future]

This is definitely one of those titles where I really don't understand at all how it landed at a 73 on Metacritic.


If I hadn't known the review average i would've guessed this would be sitting in the mid-to-high 80s.

 

[MacReady13]

This is definitely one of those titles where I really don't understand at all how it landed at a 73 on Metacritic.


If I hadn't known the review average i would've guessed this would be sitting in the mid-to-high 80s.

It deserves to be in the mid 80's for sure. Critics today are fucked. Where was the diversity in this game??? That may have lowered the score somewhat.

 

[M1chl]

This was crazy good, I loved the atmosphere and characters. 9/10 because it was short as fuck.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

STILL WAKES THE DEEP IS THE CHINESE ROOM’S ABSURDIST HORROR MASTERPIECE

When I saw trailers, I was excited for a lovecraftian horror game by Dear Esther makers The Chinese Room set on an oil rig in the 1970s. When I played it I immediately wanted to talk about it. Now, 2 months later, I ended up with this gargantuan beast of a video. Clearly this game woke something in me that was slumbering deep.
So buckle up.


Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:11:03 Die Hard on an Oil Rig
00:33:12 Cronenbergian
00:45:26 We Never Had A Chance
00:56:36 A Dear Esther Anecdote
01:04:11 The Taboo
01:14:25 Epilogue
01:17:53 Credits

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

Just dropping in to say I freaking loved the game, the characters, the setting, the vibe of it all. My kinda game for sure. The Thing meets Underwater. Need more!

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

For those who like this game and are into Art books:

The deep stirs

Duik in de angstaanjagende wereld van STILL WAKES THE DEEP, de nieuwste release van de Britse studio The Chinese Room, in dit uitgebreide kunstboek.

www.cookandbecker.com

Ordered a standard copy.

 

[Skifi28]

Just finished it, in one sitting. Wow, what an experience.

 

[Bojji]

It's a great title for GP, short but really good.

I completed it months ago, they had fucked up release on Gamepass without dlss and some other stuff missing but this was fixed with patches.

 

[lockdown2222]

Just finished it, in one sitting. Wow, what an experience.

I just finished it now, I’m currently watching the credits and my jaw is on the floor. What. An. Experience. Such an unexpected surprise.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I'm a little late to the party here. The game was okay, but I wouldn't praise it as one of the best representatives of the genre. I liked the setting, overall atmosphere, enemy designs and the chase sequences (the option to look behind you was actually quite fun). What I HATED were the swimming sections. In the very first one there's a tutorial how to dash underwater and it's super confusing, because you can't do it freely. Not to mention it can be super dark underwater and it makes navigating to the surface a huge pain. The game could've also used some real puzzles. Best it can do is give you an instruction screen in which order to interact with things, that's not a puzzle.

Game looks pretty on XSX (performance mode), but the stormy conditions should've definitely arrived sooner to build even better atmosphere. I liked how main character (and other rig employees) cussed a lot, didn't feel like it was too much, pretty much what you expect from playing a guy in a situation like this. Overall I'd give it a 7/10.

 

[ElCasual]

I don’t have game pass and I knew this existed. Funny that…

I don't have Xbox and I'm curious of this game.

 

[lockdown2222]

I don't have Xbox and I'm curious of this game.

Do it. You won’t be sorry (hopefully). I had no idea what this game was and went in blind because my buddy was playing it and I loved it. Chill and tense when you want it to be.

I'm a little late to the party here. The game was okay, but I wouldn't praise it as one of the best representatives of the genre. I liked the setting, overall atmosphere, enemy designs and the chase sequences (the option to look behind you was actually quite fun). What I HATED were the swimming sections. In the very first one there's a tutorial how to dash underwater and it's super confusing, because you can't do it freely. Not to mention it can be super dark underwater and it makes navigating to the surface a huge pain. The game could've also used some real puzzles. Best it can do is give you an instruction screen in which order to interact with things, that's not a puzzle.

Game looks pretty on XSX (performance mode), but the stormy conditions should've definitely arrived sooner to build even better atmosphere. I liked how main character (and other rig employees) cussed a lot, didn't feel like it was too much, pretty much what you expect from playing a guy in a situation like this. Overall I'd give it a 7/10.

I agree with this, may bump it to 8. But you’re right the swimming parts were AWFUL and by far the rage moment of the game. Thank goodness there wasn’t much of that because the rest was a really enjoyable experience.

 

[Punished Miku]

This is definitely scary really good so far. Maybe 1.5 hours in.

 

[RJMacready73]

Just finished this game, was waiting on it dropping in price but if I'd know it was going to be this good I would've paid full price. What an absolute horror masterpiece, everything about it was top tier, graphics, voice acting and some seriously well designed levels set on a criminally underused setting, loved every minute and it was the perfect length.. bloody shame Sony didn't pay these guys to do a PSVR2 version, anyways if you love horror games with a brilliant story and relatively simple gameplay, get on this

 

[Punished Miku]

If anyone was playing this in VR they'd have a heart attack. Anyone that considers themselves a fan of The Thing owes it to themselves to play it.

 

[rabbity-thing]

With all the stupid bullshit DEI shite around, it was nice to see a game about some honest nobody working class men.

Cool. I was worried we were going to have a thread that didn't bring up DEI.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Cool. I was worried we were going to have a thread that didn't bring up DEI.

You’re only 6 months too late but yes, it’s been mentioned.

 

[RJMacready73]

All the actors where hilariously brilliant with that thick sardonic Scottish wit, my uncle was from Glasgow, lived in Ireland 30yrs and his accent was still as thick as the day he arrived, get him drunk and he was a hard man to understand, the voice acting in general was superb, the entire game was a cross between The Thing, XFiles, Rab C Nesbitt

 

[RJMacready73]

Oops wrong thread

 

[Punished Miku]

It just keeps getting even better .

Easily one of the best horror games ever made. All killer no filler. Resident Evil will copy some moments from this. I have zero doubt.