A NEW horror game featuring an 1970s North Sea oil rig is being tipped to take the PS5 and Xbox market by storm when it launches next year.
Developer The Chinese Room has unveiled its new first-person horror adventure Still Wakes the Deep, launching “early” next year.
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In Still Wakes the Deep, players are cast as an offshore oil rig worker – stationed on the Beira D oil rig off the Scottish coast circa 1975 – who finds himself “fighting for his life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters.”
All communications with the outside world have been severed, all the exits are gone, and, worse, there’s some unspeakable otherworldly horror onboard.
“Run, climb, and swim through the flooding corridors and storm-lashed outer decks,” teases The Chinese Room in its announcement.
Still Wakes the Deep will be available for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store) when it launches next year.
The game follows the success of Amazon Prime’s thriller series The Rig, starring Martin Compston, which saw the crew members battle a mysterious supernatural force on the fictional Kishorn Bravo rig.
A second season of the show – which has proved a worldwide hit – has just been commissioned by the streaming giant.
