The Chinese Room’s impressively choreographed oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep is making a return, in a brand-new bit of story DLC that’ll pick up the action almost a decade after the events of the main game. It’s called Siren’s Rest, and it’s coming to all platforms on 18th June.
Still Wakes the Deep’s original story transported players back to 1975 and the wonderfully realised Beira D oil rig, located somewhere off the coast of Scotland in the churning North Sea. Eventually, it became clear that unknown forces had dubious designs on the Beira D’s crew, and thus began a very difficult day in the life of electrician Cameron McLeary.
If you haven’t played the main game, you might want to stop reading here, as introducing Siren’s Rest requires revealing the fate of Beira D and its crew. You see, Still Wakes the Deep’s story DLC time jumps forward over a decade to 1986 when a specialist diving team journeys to the site of the oil rig, now far below the waves. Armed with a cutting torch, crowbar, and camera, this new team is attempting to piece together the final moments of the Beira D, but it just might transpire those unknowable forces aren’t quite done playing just yet.
“The Beira D is now a groaning steel catacomb interred in the inky depths of the North Sea,” The Chinese Room teases in its announcement. “What really happened that December day in 1975, when communications to the mainland were severed and the rig sank without a trace? What answers can be given to families who still grieve, ten years on?”