During today’s Xbox Partner Preview, we saw Still Wakes The Deep, the new game from The Chinese Room, the studio known for Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
The new project has distinct horror vibes as it drops players into the shoes of a character navigating a ruined oil rig. We hear distant and troubling screams as the protagonist navigates the catwalks and beams of the oil rig, as a strange, alien-like tentacled form reaches up from beneath the roiling ocean waters. The first-person lead drops through a hatch into the very water that seems to be the source of the strange tendrils after traversing several tunnels.