Today, UK developer The Chinese Room (which is also currently busy with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2) unveiled the PC system requirements for Still Wakes the Deep. The upcoming first-person horror game is powered by Unreal Engine 5, but the minimum and recommended requirements listed on the Steam page don't appear to be too high:
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit required) with DirectX 12
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2050 / AMD RX 6000 / Intel® Arc™ A550 Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit required) with DirectX 12
- Processor: Intel Core i5-11600 / Ryzen 5 5600X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD RX 6700 XT / Intel® Arc™ A750 Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
The Chinese Room also unveiled the voice cast of Still Wakes the Deep. Protagonist Cameron "Caz" McLeary will be played by Alec Newman, who has a long track record in the industry. He previously played Vangarre in Xenoblade Chronicles, Lahabrea in Final Fantasy XIV, Sebastian Vael in Dragon Age II, Arthur Tailles in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Apprentice Maraad and Captain Joris in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Simon Belmont in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, Finn in Dragon Age: Inquisition, Graden in The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Jack the Ripper in the eponymous Assassin's Creed Syndicate DLC, Kram Namwen in Star Wars: Battlefront II, Robert in A Plague Tale: Innocence, Walla in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Adam Smasher (among others) in Cyberpunk 2077, Aitor in Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Blameless Marad in Horizon: Forbidden West, and Vladimir Blum in Alan Wake II. Newman said of his role:
The thing was so well written, and so well-conceived, that I don't recall having very long conversations about what Caz should sound like. With this, you can feel the writing, you can feel the characters.
The rest of the Still Wakes the Deep cast is notable, too:
- Neve McIntosh as Suze
- Karen Dunbar
- Michael Abubakar
- Clive Russell
- Shaun Dooley
- Stewart Scudamore
- Nicholas Boulton
- Duncan Pow
- Sandy Batchelor
- Alan Turkington
- Noof Ousellam
In the game, players will step into the role of an oil rig worker when the off-shore platform he works on gets cut out from the world by a violent storm. As you might expect from a horror game, that's the least of the problems for the main character and the rest of the workers.
Still Wakes the Deep is set to launch on June 18 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X.
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