Still Wakes the Deep ending explained
Caz’s fight for survival across the Beira D North Sea Rig culminates in a strange and frightful sequence of events that may leave you scratching your head a little, but we have this Still Wakes the Deep ending explained article to extract some sense from the nightmare scenario.
It's an achievement in itself to make it through the terrifying experience, that's for sure.
On a personal note, as a Caledonian native, this writer was beyond excited to get my hands on the game as it is a rare thing to have a game set in Scotland with a Scottish cast who aren’t just there as comic relief – not that I don’t have a soft spot for Team Fortress 2’s Demoman.
RadioTimes.com Gaming Editor Rob Leane must’ve thought it was the biggest game of the year how much I went on about it, but safe to say, it may just be for me.
Part of that is the ambiguity that surrounds the mysterious and horrific entity consuming the Beira D, but hopefully, we can shed a little light on the game's conclusion. Read on, but beware for there are major spoilers ahead for the Still Wakes the Deep ending.
Unfortunately, it would appear Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary does not survive as he chooses to blow up the Beira D oil rig up with him still on it.
He comes to this conclusion after his colleague Finlay (played by Karen Dunbar) convinces him to do it instead of her after being crushed by falling machinery in the hopes of protecting the mainland. A sage course of action perhaps after watching the Lovecraftian entity rapidly grow and causing workers to succumb to the terrible fate of becoming terrifying body-horror creatures or being their prey.
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But once Caz drops Finlay’s lighter into the depths of the oil and gas-laden derrick and is consumed by the explosion, the player is transported into a
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