Trapped in a sinking oil rig, surrounded by an unseen horror, Still Wakes the Deep: The Complete Collection plunges you into a desperate fight for survival. With its haunting atmosphere, incredible environmental storytelling, and intense gameplay mechanics, this PS5 version delivers an unforgettable horror experience that keeps you on edge from start to finish. Prepare to navigate claustrophobic corridors, make life-or-death decisions, and uncover the secrets lurking beneath the surface of the rig.

Still Wakes the Deep: The Complete Collection Review Pros

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 11.89GB download size. That is the main game, and the DLC Sirens Rest is installed.
• Platinum trophy for the main game and an additional 22 trophies for the DLC.
• The Scottish Gaelic language is in the game.
• Accessibility options – subtitles, letterbox opacity, letterbox colour, size, dialogue subtitles speed slider, font, subtitle colour, speaker name, and edge.
• Two game difficulties – story and standard.
• Graphics settings – gamma, motion blur, film grain, chromatic aberration, and quality preset set to quality or performance.
• Silver screen mode gives the game a monochrome appearance and adds a lot to the experience.
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, you can remap the controls, set haptic feedback, and set the toggle for run, sprint, and crouch.
• Audio settings – volume, dynamic range, dialogue boost, panning rule, mono audio, audio balance, high-frequency cutoff, and low-frequency cutoff.
• Game settings – show yellow markers and action prompts.
• Excellent voice work.
• Horror adventure gameplay.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• First-person view.
• The atmosphere they create is that of intense edge anxiety.
• Distract the enemy by picking up items and throwing them.
• Stealth is a huge deal; you can hide in many places.
• There are sections where you have to run away from a rampaging enemy, and you can press a button to look behind you at any time.
• This is a game that has made the look behind button a fear factor, I never wanted to use it, because fook that.
• The rig is a location full of depth and unique actions.
• I really appreciate the way that the story just gets on with it and sprinkles in these huge set pieces and sequences.
• It was very hard to put the game down, one sitting is the ultimate experience as if playing alone in a dark room with headphones on, preferably you will have soundproof panels, otherwise the neighbours may call the polis.
• Very generous checkpoints that never have you playing a lot of already-seen content.
• You can press a button to have an objective marker appear and then press it again for a tip or hint.
• The phone plays a big part in the game as it will have survivors and colleagues giving you updates and asking for help.
• Quick-time events (QTE) are plentiful but fine as they are obvious when they happen, as it’s for grabbing platforms or stabilising yourself, and I had it set to hold the button down; again, it was generous with it.
• 23 chapters to unlock and you get a chapter select available after each completed chapter.
• A very good, strong and emotional story.
• A fantastic cast of characters.
• You can play the DLC whenever you want as it’s on the main menu as a seperate game as it were.
• Mementoes are hidden collectables in the DLC Sirens Rest.
• Sirens Rest has its own title screen, options, etc, but they are exactly the same as the game, and it saves your settings.
• The DLC follows on from the previous game and without spoiling it all, il just say you revisit the rig.
• You have a camera in the DLC and take pictures of your finds and discoveries.
• I really enjoyed the DLC, and getting to go back and see it in a whole new way was refreshing and fantastic.

Still Wakes the Deep: The Complete Collection Review Cons

• Anything to do with swimming was a nightmare.
• Looking behind wasn’t fast enough, and I found it disorienting more than anything.
• The game had a horrible habit of repeating the same handful of actions over and over, and it got very tiresome.
• At points in the game, you can see where they padded it out to make it longer, and it didn’t serve the game well.
• The DLC is really good, but you can see how they have taken a previous mechanic and just reskinned it.
• I found the DLC took a bit longer to get into the meat of it.

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Still Wakes the Deep The Complete Collection

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Developer: The Chinese Room

Publisher: Secret Mode

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