Nonetheless Wakes the Deep is getting an enlargement the place you examine the occasions of the bottom recreation ten years later, and it's out subsequent week
Final 12 months’s first-person horror Nonetheless Wakes the Deep mixed three of my favorite issues, particularly Scottish folks, oil rigs, and The Factor. It is one of the best recreation that The Chinese language Room has made but in my view, and my solely actual criticism (when you can name it that) is that I’d fortunately have performed extra of it.
And because it seems, we are getting one other slice of offshore Caledonian terror far before you may need anticipated. The Chinese language Room lately revealed Nonetheless Wakes the Deep is getting an enlargement, and you can dive into its murky depths subsequent week.
[Spoilers for Still Wakes the Deep follow]
Titled Siren’s Relaxation, the DLC takes place 11 years after the occasions of the unique, inserting you within the position of Mhairi, a saturation diver main a workforce to analyze the wreck of the Beria D (Does it rely as a wreck if it is an oil rig? Solutions on a postcard please.) now scattered throughout the ground of the North Sea. Your mission is to uncover what precisely occurred to the crew and get better their stays.
The DLC, which The Chinese language Room says will final round 2 hours, provides some mild detective components to the expertise. You will must {photograph} human stays and gather mementos of the useless. Additionally, because the Beria D is now a damaged, twisted mass of metal, you may must navigate by it fastidiously, utilizing instruments like a slicing arc and a crowbar to interrupt by blocked-off areas.
Truthfully, it sounds good. Additionally, terrifying. The unique was intense sufficient while you had been above the water, so including in full-blown thalassophobia and particularly deep-sea wreck diving—just about essentially the most harmful factor a human can do on this planet—ought to ratchet up the stress considerably.
Nonetheless Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Relaxation launches Wednesday, 18 June, and can value $13 (£10), on launch. In case you already know you wish to play it, you may seize it at a 15% launch low cost, bringing the value down to only over $11 (£8.50). If you have not performed the unique, that is at the moment 50% off too, accessible at $17.50 (£15).
This DLC is not the one undertaking set to emerge from The Chinese language Room this 12 months. After a protracted and turbulent improvement that resulted in a whole change of studio, the a lot troubled Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 is lastly set to launch this October.
And it appears the troubled sequel may need flourished underneath The Chinese language Room’s stewardship. Fraser Brown performed a number of hours of it again in March, and that hands-on time allayed lots of his considerations:
“I am nonetheless shocked by how good the fight felt. Highly effective, tactical, delightfully excessive,” he wrote in his Bloodlines 2 preview. “And I liked exchanging barbs and pleasantries with Seattle’s secret rulers. The writing is playful, the mysteries compelling, and the methods underpinning these chats are precisely what I need from an RPG.”