Still Wakes the Deep — Steam Gift

Still Wakes the Deep — an oil rig, a storm and what came up the borehole

December 1975, the North Sea, the Beira D oil rig. You play electrician Cameron "Caz" McLeary, and an ordinary shift turns into a nightmare: after a catastrophic drilling failure, something nameless tears loose from the deep. No contact with shore, no rescue, just metal bending and sinking around you. Still Wakes the Deep by The Chinese Room is a first-person psychological horror where your best weapon is a clear head, not a shotgun — because there is no shotgun here.

What kind of game this is

The Chinese Room are the people behind atmospheric titles like Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Still Wakes the Deep follows that lineage: it leans on story, place and dread rather than gunplay. The game launched on June 18, 2024. The gameplay is linear and cinematic — you pick your way across a collapsing platform, hide from what stalks the corridors, and solve light puzzles to clear a path or cross a gap. There is no combat system at all; survival runs on stealth and attention.

Why the setting works

Beira D isn't an abstract haunted house — it's a believable 1970s oil platform: crew quarters, a mess hall, the drill shaft, howling wind and North Sea waves past the portholes. The Scottish voices of the crew, the rust and the cramped spaces build claustrophobia long before the monster shows up. And once the rig starts to list and slip underwater, fear of heights and fear of the depths hit you at the same time.

Editions and what to pick

This page offers two options:

• Game 🎮 — the full Still Wakes the Deep, the complete main story. A Steam gift sent to your account. This alone takes you through the campaign from start to finish.
• Siren's Rest 🧩 — the story expansion, released June 18, 2025. It jumps to 1986: divers Mhairi and Rob run search-and-recovery on the sunken Beira D wreck, and the platform's past refuses to stay on the seabed. It's roughly 1–2 hours of new story.

Important about Siren's Rest

Siren's Rest is an add-on, not a standalone game. For it to work, the base Still Wakes the Deep must already be on the same Steam account. If you don't own the base yet, grab the Game first — otherwise the add-on gift arrives but there's nothing to play. If the main game is already in your library, take Siren's Rest and continue the rig's story eleven years on.

Region and platform

This is the Windows PC build; on Steam Deck it runs through the Proton compatibility layer. The gift is region-bound: your Steam account's region must match the gift's region, or it can't be accepted. One more condition — the game (or expansion) must not already be in your library, since Steam won't accept a gift for something you own. Once the gift is accepted, the game and the expansion stay on your account forever, like any Steam purchase.

Length and who it's for

The main story is a compact, dense run with no filler: it leads you by the hand, never strands you for hours, and there's no grind or open world. It's a one-or-two-evening game, but it sticks with you precisely because it's concentrated — every scene serves the atmosphere. It suits players who love story-driven horror and walking-sims with a strong narrative; it's unlikely to land for anyone chasing action, leveling and firefights. Siren's Rest adds one more short but complete story beat on top — this time underwater, eleven years later.

Performance and comfort

The game is built on Unreal Engine 5 and leans heavily on lighting, water and destruction effects — it's first and foremost a visual showcase. On PC there are the usual graphics settings, widescreen support and options flexible enough to balance visuals against frame rate for your build. Controls are keyboard-and-mouse or a gamepad, whichever you prefer. On Steam Deck, aim for medium settings through Proton.

How delivery works

After payment, delivery is by Steam gift through the FZR partner bot. The bot adds you as a friend on its own, sends Still Wakes the Deep (or Siren's Rest) as a gift, and then removes itself — you don't have to accept any friend requests manually, and Steam Guard isn't required for this. All that's left is to confirm the gift in Steam, and the game lands in your library. As a rule the gift arrives within a couple of minutes; before buying, make sure your account region matches the gift's region and that the game isn't already in your library.

If you love this kind of horror

Still Wakes the Deep is for players who prize story-driven dread and thick atmosphere over firefights. If this format clicks with you, check out other tales in the same vein: Amnesia: The Bunker with its oppressive enclosed space, the underwater sci-fi terror of SOMA, and the psychological Layers of Fear. All of them grow their scares from the surroundings, not from a body count.

🔗 Another way to buy

Take a look at these: Still Wakes the Deep as a Steam key.