Brighton, UK – 13 June 2024: Award-winning developer The Chinese Room and publisher Secret Mode are proud to reveal that upcoming narrative horror game Still Wakes the Deep will feature support for the historic Scottish Gaelic language.
Players will be able to experience the haunting story of Still Wakes the Deep, featuring a wealth of Scottish actors such as Alec Newman, Neve McIntosh, and Karen Dunbar, with full Scottish Gaelic subtitles. Translations will also be seen in menus, tooltips, and text boxouts for certain interactable items.
Scottish Gaelic is an endangered language, with 2.5% of Scotland's population reporting some Gaelic-language skills in the 2022 Census, though knowledge of the language has increased in recent years. Presented with a unique and appropriate opportunity to spread the language further, The Chinese Room took the chance to include the language which is seldom seen in video games. This goes hand in hand with its focus on authenticity, which saw the team digging through archival footage of oil rigs in the 1970s and interviewing oil rig workers to craft the most realistic world possible.
"As a narrative studio, communicating with the audience authentically through language and character is core to what we do," says John McCormack, Project Creative Director on Still Wakes the Deep.
"Our latest project, Still Wakes the Deep, is a uniquely Scottish story and, while it is set in a relatively contemporary period, there is something ancient and powerful at the heart of it. After listening to 'Fath Mo Mhulaid A Bhith Ann' for the first time, it was clear that the game experience wouldn't be complete without a full translation deeply connected to the history and people of Scotland."
The song "Fath Mo Mhulaid A Bhith Ann (Being Here Has Caused My Sorrow)", performed by Maggie MacInnes, will be heard in Scottish Gaelic in the game's soundtrack. Fans can hear the song in the recent Still Wakes the Deep launch trailer.
Still Wakes the Deep will launch on 18 June 2024 for Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation®5 (PS5™). It will also be available with Game Pass for console and PC. Pre-orders for the physical PS5 release are available now from all good retailers.
Still Wakes the Deep supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Scottish Gaelic for its interface and subtitles. English subtitles are available with literal transcription and Received Pronunciation adaptation options.
About Still Wakes the Deep
Still Wakes the Deep is a return to the first-person narrative horror genre from The Chinese Room, creator of critically acclaimed games such as Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther.
You are an offshore oil rig worker, fighting for your life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters. All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. All that remains is to face the unknowable horror that’s come aboard.
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Still Wakes the Deep will launch on 18 June 2024 for Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PS5. It will also be available with Game Pass for console and PC. Pre-orders for the physical PS5 release are available now from all good retailers.
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About Secret Mode
Secret Mode is the publishing wing of Sumo Group Ltd, and winner of the Ukie Best UK Publisher 2024 award. Our goal is to publish internally developed projects from any of our 18 game development studios across the UK, US, Europe, and India, as well as third party independent game developers. We believe that games are for everyone, and that creativity has no limits. We believe quality and fun are everything.
About The Chinese Room
The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio based in Brighton, UK. Since 2012, the studio has built a reputation for innovative first-person gaming. Its titles include the ground-breaking Dear Esther (2012); the cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (2013); the internationally acclaimed Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (2015), the highly-anticipated Still Wakes the Deep (2024) and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (TBA).
Since joining the Sumo Digital family in 2018, The Chinese Room has been hard at work building on its reputation for creative excellence in game development. From humble roots in modding and academia to a team of over one hundred game devs and numerous influential titles, the studio is busy with projects that merge TCR storytelling with new directions, new genres and new ambitions.
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