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The Chinese Room · Published by Secret Mode · Official site ↗
Content notice: This game includes Mature content such as “Blood and Gore,” “Partial Nudity,” “Strong Language,” and “Violence”.
Very Positive — 87% positive (13,232 reviews) · Metacritic 77 · 59 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
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 in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Action, Adventure, Indie · 2024 · More £5 - £15 games
In Still Wakes the Deep, navigate treacherous corridors to save your crew from an otherworldly terror. Experience a gripping adventure set in 1975 on Scotland’s Beira D oil rig.
About this game
Winner of three BAFTA Games Awards: Best New IP; Performer in a Leading Role; Performer in a Supporting Role
STILL WAKES THE DEEP is a return to the first-person narrative horror genre for The Chinese Room, creator of critically acclaimed games such as Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther.
You are an offshore oil rig worker, fighting for his 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.
Search for your crew and help them survive if you can. Run, climb, and swim through the flooding corridors and storm-lashed outer decks. Face a terrifying, unrelenting foe. And pray that, one day, you get to see your family again.
The Chinese Room – with its reputation for world-class world-building, audio, writing, and acting – delivers a symphony of action, trepidation, tender emotions, and awe.
LIVE THE HORROR
An immersive disaster story aboard a stunningly realised North Sea oil rig, starring an authentic cast of Scottish actors. Experience the beauty and ferocity of the sea as it rips apart one of humanity’s strongest structures and its steadfast crew.
ESCAPE THE RIG
No weapons. No powers. Just your wits and determination. Struggle for survival on an unstable oil rig, where one wrong step could be your last.
FACE YOUR FEARS
Something has turned your home into a nightmare, where the familiar becomes threatening, and where a noise in the dark fills you with dread. Resist the urge to turn back. Confront the unknown.
GAME FEATURES
Explore an authentic oil rig in 1970’s Scotland that evolves throughout the story
World-class visuals, audio, and writing from award-winning studio The Chinese Room
Star-studded cast of voice-actors: Alec Newman (BAFTA winning role), Karen Dunbar (BAFTA winning role), Michael Abubakar (BAFTA nominated role) Neve McIntosh (Golden Joystick Award nominated role), and more
Haunting soundtrack by BAFTA winning composer Jason Graves
Updated with new features including Chapter Select, Yellow Markers toggle, and Silver Screen cinematic filter
Optional Story Mode available for players who wish to reduce the threat
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit required) with DirectX 12
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2050 / AMD RX 6000 / Intel® Arc™ A550 Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit required) with DirectX 12
- Processor: Intel Core i5-11600 / Ryzen 5 5600X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD RX 6700 XT / Intel® Arc™ A750 Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Introducing the Chinese Room Award Winners Bundle!
Hands up! Who likes award-winning games? How about games made by The Chinese Room? What about award-winning games, created by The Chinese Room, at half price??? Then you're in luck, as our brand-new bundle, "The Chinese Room Award Winners", is just that! This discount runs until August 28th, so get it now before some random Scottish person who calls himself "the king" shouts at us for such an insane discount!Read full article on Community Announcements (SecretModeLiam)AnnouncementsOfficial
Pick Your Poison - Multiple Still Wakes the Deep Horror Bundles Now Live!
We've been closing out 2025 by partnering with some of the best in the horror games business, to bring you some bone-chilling bundles featuring Still Wakes the Deep on Steam! First up, Secret Mode and Raw Fury have teamed up to bring you the Atmospheric Horror bundle, featuring Still Wakes the Deep and the brand new first person sci-fi horror, ROUTINE. Set in the 1980s, ROUTINE has you carefully navigating an abandoned lunar base with the vision of the future. Let’s just hope there’s no random oil dripping or corruptive gloop blocking your path… Get the bundle here! We also have three other spine-tingling new bundles for you to sink your teeth into - one with the brutal nightmare of Cronos: The New Dawn, one with Huntsman that’s bound to get you stuck in a web of eight-legged proportions, and another where we’re no-clipping into liminal spaces in Escape the Backrooms. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls in a new breed of apocalyptic survival horror with Cronos: The New Dawn. Keep your nerve in Huntsman - a survival horror where you’re trapped in a spider-infested research facility where the spiders are realistic and will send shivers down any arachnophobe’s spine. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels either solo or with three other Wanderers while avoiding entities and other dangers in Escape the Backrooms but be warned: survival isn’t guaranteed.Read full article on Community Announcements (SecretModeLiam)AnnouncementsOfficial
Still Wakes the Cloud Saves
Yes, you read that right. Still Wakes the Deep now officially supports Steam Cloud Saves. Thank you so much for sticking with us on this topic (and giving us the occasional prod, we read them all!) Now go out there and get your daily dose of disgruntled Scottish workers shouting expletives at you.Read full article on Community Announcements (SecretModeLiam)AnnouncementsOfficial
Beira D Deep Dive: Interviewing Principal Narrative Designer Sagar Beroshi
“These are characters who are opting into a difficult situation. They are choosing to go to the wreck of the Beira D.”Have you wondered how much research went into concepting Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest? Or how saturation diving differs from traditional diving, and what does it do to the body and mind? We sat down with Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest Principal Narrative Designer Sagar Beroshi to ask him these questions - and so much more - in an exclusive 50-minute interview, embedded below. Sit back, fill your Cadal mug with a cup of tea, and enjoy.Read full article on Community Announcements (SecretModeLiam)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Chinese Room answers YOUR questions.
A few weeks back, four developers from The Chinese Room answered your questions over on Reddit. This blog is a compilation of the brilliant questions and deep answers provided. Be warned, it’s a long one! Please note that these answers will contain spoilers for both Still Wakes the Deep and Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest. The four developers who took part were: Principal Narrative Designer Sagar BeroshiPrincipal Game Designer Jade JacsonLead Sound Designer Francesco Del PiaLead Environment Artist Iain Gillespie Question from Gorvar1: "How do you feel about the community calling the organism The Shape?" A - Jade: "I really love it. We have another name for it in the office, but I prefer the one the community came up with as it's more neutral and fits it better." Question from Carbine: "What inspired the setting and story of Still Wakes the Deep?" and follow-up from V-companey: "What if John Carpenter went mad filming a documentary on an oil rig?" A - Jade and Sagar: "Spot on, this was definitely our goal!" Question from HoneyGumSD: "What happened to the Greatest character ever conceived, Davros. It’s a joke in the community that he’s alive, but how’d he die (did he NOT die?!) This is very urgent!" A - Jade: "You're going to be disappointed, but we know about this discourse and love it, so we're kind of tempted to not answer this question 😁" A - Sagar: "This is indeed an incredibly important question. It's time we answered it definitively. ... ... ... 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁" Questions from BillyJayGaming - "Did the monster in Siren’s Rest survive the Beira D explosion, and if so, who was it?" A - Sagar: "I think it's so interesting that so many of you believe that Mhairi encounters a single, defined organism that is human-sized and that is identical to whatever may or may not have been encountered in the base game... Very interesting indeed… Let's consider what we all presumably know about how it operates. It has physical absorption capabilities. It has some sort of latent psyc...Read full article on Community Announcements (SecretModeLiam)
