Last year's first-person horror combined three of my favourite things, namely Scottish people, oil rigs, and The Thing. It's the best game that The Chinese Room has made yet in my opinion, and my only real complaint (if you can call it that) is that I would happily have played more of it.
And as it turns out, we are getting another slice of offshore Caledonian terror far sooner than you might have expected. The Chinese Room recently revealed Still Wakes the Deep is getting an expansion, and you'll be able to dive into its murky depths next week.
Honestly, it sounds brilliant. Also, terrifying. The original was intense enough when you were above the water, so adding in full-blown thalassophobia and specifically deep-sea [[link]] wreck diving—pretty much the most dangerous thing a human can do on this planet—should ratchet up the tension substantially.
Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest launches Wednesday, 18 June, and will cost $13 (£10), on launch. If you already know you want to play it, you can grab it at a 15% launch discount, bringing the price down to just over. If you haven't played the original, that's currently 50% off too, available at.
This DLC isn't the only project set to emerge from The Chinese Room this year. After a long and turbulent development that resulted in an entire change of studio, the much troubled is finally set to launch this October.
And it seems the troubled sequel might have flourished under The Chinese Room's stewardship. Fraser Brown played several hours [[link]] of it back in March, and that hands-on time allayed many of his concerns:
"I'm still shocked by how good the combat felt. Powerful, tactical, delightfully over the top," he wrote in his. "And I loved exchanging barbs and pleasantries with Seattle's secret rulers. The writing is playful, the mysteries compelling, and the systems underpinning these chats are exactly what I want from an RPG."