Still Wakes the Deep's Siren's Rest DLC Still Isn't Scary Enough

Review: Siren’s Rest Is A Bitesize Chunk Of Still Wakes The Deep, Diving To The Sunken Wreck Of The Former Oil Rig – Entertainium

Last year, British game developers The Chinese Room gave us Still Wakes the Deep; a moody, atmospheric horror disaster, set on a Scottish oil rig in 1975 overrun by a Lovecraftian nightmare. I reviewed it, enjoying its finely paced mixture of frights and tension-building. This year, we’re returning to the sea with Siren’s Rest, a DLC expansion to the original game set more than a decade later, in 1986. This DLC is explicitly for people who have …

Still Wakes the Deep's Siren's Rest DLC Still Isn't Scary Enough

Still Wakes the Deep surely tried to be scary. It had a remote setting, cosmic horribly deformed monstrosities straight out of The Thing, and comically thick Scottish accents, but it was a lot more frustrating than freaky. Almost every bit of tension was squandered by its annoying trial-and-error stealth sequences that punished every slight blunder. Its Siren’s Rest DLC had a chance to fix that fatal error, but it’s not just lacking in quality s…