Still Wakes the Deep is the latest entry from The Chinese Room, and while most of your effort goes into running away from nasty Eldritch horrors, there is a deeper story told here. Here is the ending explained, and naturally, your spoiler warning. starts with a letter to our main character, Caz McLeary, from his wife Suze.
It’s not an endearing letter, but instead a plea that he “comes back home,” and that she will not wait for him if he decides to run away for much longer. It’s a dreary note to start on, especially when you find out that on top of a shaky marriage, Caz is about to be fired from his job because the police have found him. But, before he can get on the helicopter and head back home, disaster strikes.
What happened at the end of Still Wakes the Deep? The rig’s drill – which you walk past on your way to the boss Rennick’s office – has struck something deep underwater, and it immediately unleashes terror. The rest of the game is spent looking for ways to keep the Beira D afloat while you wait for some kind of rescue. All your other options – the helicopter and the lifeboats – are not working for one reason or another, and all Caz can do now is keep his only solid ground up and hope for the best.
At the end of the game, Caz and his crewmate Finlay are the only two remaining, but they have different ideas of how to get away from the creature that’s been torturing them and killing their crewmates. Finlay believes that they need to destroy the mo.
