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The Horror of the Ocean Isn’t Always Its Creatures: Still Wakes the Deep (a Video Game)

Launch Trailer for Still Wakes the Deep You are an electrician on an oil rig, far out in the middle of the ocean. Your best friend is the ship’s cook, who helped you to get this job for reasons that the story will slowly reveal as you play. However, you are called up to the overseer’s office and told that your services are no longer needed. Before you can board the helicopter to leave, the drill hits something - and nothing will ever be the same.  Still Wakes the Deep is a game developed by The Chinese Room , and published by Secret Mode. It follows Caz through a terrifying adventure filled with monsters that have been made from the twisted flesh of the people who have become trapped in an oil rig that is slowly disintegrating. The story isn’t just about the mysterious entity that seems to be taking over the ship, it’s about one man’s journey from self-centered coward to some measure of redemption. It’s also about what happens when corporations don’t care (no real surprise there). Befo

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