Dead Space Remake Hides Secret Sailor Easter Egg

I was wandering around the USG Ishimura last night and found a spooky staff room with a circle of candles arranged in front of a TV screen displaying the show’s infamous red marker.

The room seemed ripe for a secret, so I started picking up the candles one by one with Stasis and tossing them on the floor – which also blew them out. Nothing has happened.

This morning I saw that others were luckier than me to unravel a particular mystery here – and this Dead Space Remake developer Motive has hidden a wonderful Easter Egg for those who take the time to solve it.

Yes, this section features its own take on Wellerman, the catchy sea shanty that exploded on Tiktok last year and also got a Fortnite version.

How to unlock this sea shanty in Dead Space? You have to stand in the prayer circle, then stomp the ground and use your melee attack in a very specific rhythm.

Clues to this rhythm are hidden in several places in the Ishimura, fragmented with a mysterious wave symbol below. Connect them like YouTuber Jester did in the video below… and this is what you get:

“Once upon a time there was a CEC ship, the Ishimura USG, she cracked a moon with gravity, go on, boys, boys, go…!”

Would you like to see the Easter egg for yourself? Eurogamer has a handy seaman’s guide to Dead Space.

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