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‘Still Wakes the Deep’ Arrives June 18 on Consoles, PC [Trailer]
Underwater horror comes home this summer from The Chinese Room and Secret Mode’s Still Wakes the Deep. Originally anticipated for an “early 2024” release, the game will instead arrive on June 18 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam. It will also be available with Game Pass for console and PC.
The release date was revealed in a new trailer for Still Wakes the Deep at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2024, which showcases the Beira D oil rig situated off the coast of Scotland – and the first glimpses of the unknowable horror that has taken root.
Still Wakes the Deep is a return to the first-person narrative horror genre from The Chinese Room, whose past work includes titles such as Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther. They’re also currently working away at Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, which is due out Fall 2024.
It’s 1975. Disaster has struck the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. You are one of the oil rig workers on the Beira D rig, 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. And something has snuck on board, leaving you to not only restore function to the rig, but also deal with the unknowable horror.
If you’re keen to know more about Still Wakes the Deep, check out Harrison’s preview from Gamescom last year.
Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.
Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”
Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.
And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.
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