The Sinking City (2019)

It is not a perfect game, but it definitely has its moments and it getting a bit of love from the developers to advertise for their next game is overall a good thing. So if this is sitting in your backlog, now might be a good time to load it up!

The Sinking City Remastered Is Out Now!
Free for existing owners

What's New in the Remastered Edition?

• Full visual overhaul with new lighting and effects
• 4K textures and improved materials
• Enhanced environments with extra details and objects
• Photo Mode
• Support for DLSS, FSR, and TSR upscaling as well as frame generation

And more.

✅ Current and future owners of the title will keep access to both the original 2019 release and the remaster.

Switch between both games in the option window that pops up after launching The Sinking City Remastered from your Steam library.

This game is so weird because it almost feels like they intended for it to be much larger than it wound up being and they ran out of time or money or something. For example, you get a slew of side quests up through the fourth or so mission, but then basically no more sidequests after that. In addition, there's, I think, one sidequest with an achievement. Seems weird to make you do all this for, far as I can tell, virtually no reason since most of them have no bearing on the story whatsoever.

It just feels like the game wasn't finished to what they expected to be completion. I don't know the development history of it or whatever, so maybe there's some info out there that walks us through what happened to this title, but it's just so strange to me to be so full yet so bare bones at the same time. Still a pretty great game though overall if you can get past the incomprehensible way you come to conclusions on cases. That archive clue gathering and connecting process is garbo.

Finally diving back into this and god do I remember why I love it. The atmosphere and setting is just so perfect. Gameplay could stand to be a little better, especially combat, and it's stilll obtuse as hell how to connect clues and stuff, but overall it's one of the more interesting and cool games I've come across this generation.

Anything to keep me from having to deal with my actual life.

I did not know that "the gentle touch of cosmic horror tentacles" could be enough to keep me playing a game that has so many flaws and makes it hard for me to like it. The story gives me just enough to go on, but man would I wish this was a bit better.

Maybe some people like the fighting in horror games, constantly searching for ammunition and healing, but it does not add anything for me but stress. If this would be a 2D Point & Click game I would like it way more and they could have made every house different and not reuse so many assets that I can find my way through the houses blind by now.

I started this and made it through the second case so far. It has its problems, but it has me gripped. The city is immersive but also empty - it still works because everything is so unreal and haunted but I wish exploration would be more rewarding. Also if this city would be real it would be called "The Stinking City" with all that dead fish everywhere. :D

I have to hope that the fights won't get too difficult for me so that I can play this to the end credits. So far I am shoveling everything to death because ammunition is so rare, but I doubt I can do that any longer.