Summary
Xbox gave fans a new look atStill Wakes the Deep, a unique new survival horror game launching day one onGame Passin 2024. Theupcoming Unreal Engine 5 horror titletakes inspiration from atmospheric genre movies and is being developed by The Chinese Room, a smaller studio behind adventure games such asDear EstherandEverybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
Still Wakes the Deepwas confirmed to be a Game Pass gamewhen fans got a brief look at the creepy title at the summer’s Xbox Showcase. The announcement trailer showed off images of the oil rig setting and several tense shots to establish the tone. The most recent look at the game, however, shines a light on the gameplay and one of the map’s more claustrophobic areas.
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Xbox showed off new footage ofStill Wakes the Deepin its recent Partner Preview. The brief trailer features a tense, first-person gameplay sequence of the player navigating through tight spaces above and underwater all while avoiding an unseen horror. The trailer concluded with a title screen confirming the game’s early 2024 launch window onXbox Game Pass.
Still Wakes the Deep’s announcement trailer was buried under 20 otherGame Pass titles confirmed at the Xbox Showcase, but the indie horror title got a chance to shine a bit more during the company’s roughly 30-minute Partner Preview presentation. In fact, outside ofAlan Wake 2, which closed out the stream,Still Wakes the Deepwas the only other game in town for survival-horror fans.
As has been the case the past few years, the early2024 video game release calendarlooks pretty crowded. Anticipated titles such asPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown,Tekken 8,Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth,Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League,Persona 4 Reload, andFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthare all scheduled to release in the year’s first two months. That said,Still Wakes the Deepcould slide in alongside those major AAA titles as quality counter-programming for horror gamers during those months, or it could even launch a little afterward when things potentially slow down a bit.
With its various inspirations as well as its unique setting,Still Wakes the Deephopes to be a dark horse for Xbox in 2024. The game has several things going for it, not the least of which is its realistic graphics crafted in Unreal Engine 5. Match that with some seriesAlien: Isolationvibes, and gamers have themselves a potentially compelling horror title to look out for in the early months of next year.
Still Wakes the Deepis slated to release on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in early 2024.
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