An oil rig off the coast of Scotland is not an obvious setting for a first-person survival horror, but after playing Still Wakes the Deep I am certain it is one of the scariest. The game’s environment is so immersive that just standing at the edge of a rain-swept deck and staring at the North Sea thrashing below left me with a feeling of isolation and unease.
It is Christmas 1975 and we play as Caz, an onboard electrician who faces the double whammy of being fired and threatened with divorce on the same day. Those problems quickly become trivial when an enormous otherworldly entity invades the rig and leaves the crew battling for survival.
The Brighton-based developer The Chinese Room specialises in atmosphere and
