My review is up!

[mrk]

Just wanted to share my written review on Neowin, it's one of very few games that does PC proper justice, and supports ultrawide without issue, along with everything else. If only the little bugs like some settings not saving were not missed it would have scored higher, but as a game itself, excellent!

https://www.neowin.net/reviews/review-still-wakes-the-deep-pc---a-well-optimised-unreal-engine-5-horror-game/

[Animal Mother]

Wow, looks really good.
Your review is very in depth and answers many of the questions gamers might ask on this forum.
Thanks for sharing on here.

[SecretModeLiam]

Hey Rob. Thank you so much for the review and being active in the community!

I can see you've put it in your review but just to highlight - we'll be monitoring any bugs and issues from reviewers such as yourself and everyone over launch and passing them over to The Chinese Room so they can get rid of those little gremlins!

[mrk]

Originally posted by SecretModeLiam:

Hey Rob. Thank you so much for the review and being active in the community!

I can see you've put it in your review but just to highlight - we'll be monitoring any bugs and issues from reviewers such as yourself and everyone over launch and passing them over to The Chinese Room so they can get rid of those little gremlins!

Much appreciated thank you!

[Chris]

Huh? What? Why is your "Review up"? At this point I can only assume multiple chosen parties were given the chance to give this title a full play through before public release. Definitely not nice.

And if the rumours around this forum are true about the assumed price I'm pretty much going to give this game a pass for the reasons mentioned, at least until a good discount is being provied.

[mrk]

Originally posted by Chris:

Huh? What? Why is your "Review up"? At this point I can only assume multiple chosen parties were given the chance to give this title a full play through before public release. Definitely not nice.

And if the rumours around this forum are true about the assumed price I'm pretty much going to give this game a pass for the reasons mentioned, at least until a good discount is being provied.

What does this even mean?

What price rumour? It's like £26 on Steam or on Game Pass for people who play games on there so is part of your sub anyway making it effectively free. A single player horror game isn't supposed to be any longer than 7 hours or so anyway else it becomes a drag. Hellblade 2 isn't that much longer and is an excellent story/experience, just like this and other single player horror games.

As for the reviews thing, you do realise that that's how reviews work, right? People get review code before release, so they can write up the review which is them published around the time of the game's release?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I directly asked to review the game as I liked the look of it. The devs/publisher were not given any preview of the review, nor did they provide any lines to write in the review, my view is my own hence why I gave it the score I did as a PC gamer who values the details that can end up losing score points such as GFX settings not remembering and so on.

[Iggy Wolf]

I read and liked your review Rob. I read another review that did a benchmark and they mentioned that the game is mostly GPU-bound. Would you say that is correct based on your own experience with the game? It would make the most sense, as there's probably few NPCs and AI, and more environmental and atmospheric effects that make up the game, so I'm hoping that means that even if one has less than an i5 11th gen CPU, they could still achieve decent framerates at even 1080P Epic/High settings. And that lowering settings should yield better performance if necessary.

[✨ ATHANH ✨]

Great! 👍

[AncientFlames]

this post and every reply to it seem like bot comments

[mrk]

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

this post and every reply to it seem like bot comments

Yes clearly we are all bots.... bleep bloop.

[mrk]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

I read and liked your review Rob. I read another review that did a benchmark and they mentioned that the game is mostly GPU-bound. Would you say that is correct based on your own experience with the game? It would make the most sense, as there's probably few NPCs and AI, and more environmental and atmospheric effects that make up the game, so I'm hoping that means that even if one has less than an i5 11th gen CPU, they could still achieve decent framerates at even 1080P Epic/High settings. And that lowering settings should yield better performance if necessary.

Ok so I have a 12700KF which isn't exactly top of the line but is still highly capable and only a small bit behind the current generation of CPUs in terms of gaming. I don't know your exact CPU but the game is decently CPU multithreaded it seems going by my experience, and the fact that dropping to 1440P from just over 4K doesn't dramatically change the %lows indicates the GPU bound nature of the game yeah.

but if your CPU is older than an 11th gen (need to know exact model) then you could see the CPU impact performance because the older chips just didn't have enough grunt to supply data to the GPU fast enough.

[Iggy Wolf]

Originally posted by Rob:

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

I read and liked your review Rob. I read another review that did a benchmark and they mentioned that the game is mostly GPU-bound. Would you say that is correct based on your own experience with the game? It would make the most sense, as there's probably few NPCs and AI, and more environmental and atmospheric effects that make up the game, so I'm hoping that means that even if one has less than an i5 11th gen CPU, they could still achieve decent framerates at even 1080P Epic/High settings. And that lowering settings should yield better performance if necessary.

Ok so I have a 12700KF which isn't exactly top of the line but is still highly capable and only a small bit behind the current generation of CPUs in terms of gaming. I don't know your exact CPU but the game is decently CPU multithreaded it seems going by my experience, and the fact that dropping to 1440P from just over 4K doesn't dramatically change the %lows indicates the GPU bound nature of the game yeah.

but if your CPU is older than an 11th gen (need to know exact model) then you could see the CPU impact performance because the older chips just didn't have enough grunt to supply data to the GPU fast enough.

Mine is an i5 10400. So only one generation behind their Recommended CPU. But my GPU is an RTX 3060 Ti, so it's also more closer to the i5's performance, preventing less of a CPU bottleneck, since the CPU can keep up with the GPU pretty reasonably.

[mrk]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

Originally posted by Rob:

Ok so I have a 12700KF which isn't exactly top of the line but is still highly capable and only a small bit behind the current generation of CPUs in terms of gaming. I don't know your exact CPU but the game is decently CPU multithreaded it seems going by my experience, and the fact that dropping to 1440P from just over 4K doesn't dramatically change the %lows indicates the GPU bound nature of the game yeah.

but if your CPU is older than an 11th gen (need to know exact model) then you could see the CPU impact performance because the older chips just didn't have enough grunt to supply data to the GPU fast enough.

Mine is an i5 10400. So only one generation behind their Recommended CPU. But my GPU is an RTX 3060 Ti, so it's also more closer to the i5's performance, preventing less of a CPU bottleneck, since the CPU can keep up with the GPU pretty reasonably.

You may be ok then but only one way to find out., Steam also offers the 2hr refund window if it doesn't run great for you too remember, or you can get it on PC Game Pass.

[SirMossy]

Originally posted by Rob:

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

Mine is an i5 10400. So only one generation behind their Recommended CPU. But my GPU is an RTX 3060 Ti, so it's also more closer to the i5's performance, preventing less of a CPU bottleneck, since the CPU can keep up with the GPU pretty reasonably.

You may be ok then but only one way to find out., Steam also offers the 2hr refund window if it doesn't run great for you too remember, or you can get it on PC Game Pass.

The Gamepass version is broken and missing features. I wouldn't play that version whatsoever until (if ever) it is fixed.

[mrk]

Originally posted by SirMossy:

Originally posted by Rob:

You may be ok then but only one way to find out., Steam also offers the 2hr refund window if it doesn't run great for you too remember, or you can get it on PC Game Pass.

The Gamepass version is broken and missing features. I wouldn't play that version whatsoever until (if ever) it is fixed.

I only just heard about this, no upscalers at all other than the TAA, wtf is that all about!

[Iggy Wolf]

Originally posted by Rob:

I only just heard about this, no upscalers at all other than the TAA, wtf is that all about!

Perhaps a Microsoft issue? They're notorious in the past for having issues with their versions of the game. I doubt The Chinese Room would intentionally gimp the GP version.