The Sinking City Remastered gets a surprise launch with a 50% discount on Steam
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Surprise tentacles are without a doubt the worst kind of tentacles, except in a couple of very specific cases. Fried squid at a pot luck? Sure. Come in, my friend. Benevolent kraken helping you out of an aquatic pickle by lifting you safely to shore? Thank you, Kraken. I will fry you last. Frogwares surprise launching a remaster of Lovecraftian adventure gameThe Sinking City with a free upgrade to existing owners and a 50% discount on Steam for everyone else? I'll fry you second to last, Frogwares. Find a comparison trailer below.
Originally made in Unreal Engine 4, the remaster has been built in UE5, with a few quality-of-life features bundled in. Read them why don't you:
- Game fully relit in Unreal Engine 5
- Enhanced locations with additional levels of detail and objects
- 4K textures and improved reflections
- Photo Mode
- Support for DLSS, FSR and TSR upscaling
- Various gameplay adjustments, certain accessibility features and more
Originally released in 2019, Frogwares gained full publishing rights to The Sinking City last year following a legal battle with Nacon over royalties and funding, including allegations that Nacon had pirated the game. Frogwares are now working on a sequel, which is slated for release sometime this year.
Alice Bell (RPS in peace) wasn't convinced by The Sinking City's take on Lovecraft or clumsy racism allegories in her review, but thought the game worked well enough otherwise, calling it "a slightly janky, slightly grindy detective game that does some interesting things in a very atmospheric depiction of a profoundly depressed town".