Posted on: February 20, 2025
Babiel93
Verified ownerGames: 47 Reviews: 4
Sinking City
Fhtagn ! Ïa Ïa Chtulhu Fhtagn !
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Experience the Lovecraftian horror of The Sinking City in a whole new light. This Unreal Engine 5 remaster brings the game's eerie atmosphere to life with stunning visuals and enhanced features. Dive into Oakmont's mysteries and unravel the city's descent into madness.
Remaster Highlights:
- Lumen Global Illumination and ray tracing
- 4K textures and extra environmental details
- FSR, DLSS, and Frame Generation support
- HDR, photo mode
- Improvements to controls, combat, game balance, crowds, and tutorials
Game Description:
The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what has possessed the city… and the minds of its inhabitants.
Game Pillars:
- An oppressive atmosphere and story inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
- A vast open world that can be explored on foot, by boat, in a diving suit…
- High replay value thanks to an open investigation system: each case can be solved in a number of ways, with different possible endings depending on your actions.
- An arsenal of weapons from the 1920s with which to take on nightmarish creatures.
- Manage your mental health to untangle the truth behind the madness.
© 2019 - 2025. Frogwares Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. “The Sinking City” is a registered trademark of Frogwares Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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19 hMain
25.5 h Main + Sides
32 h Completionist
25.5 h All Styles
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Posted on: May 23, 2025
TheRealCanadianRage
Games: 378 Reviews: 15
I couldn't enjoy it
Well, I had been thinking about purchasing this game and being a fan of the Sherlock Holmes series (which I got from Steam, prior to finding out about GOG) a fan of detective games, HP lovecraft and period pieces I figured I might enjoy this. I'm not saying it's bad-the graphics are nice, the atmosphere is good, the music was good; the gunplay sucks (but that isn't anything new with Frogwares games) but I just find it very boring and the navigating around the map can be annoying. From a technical standpoint: upon booting this game up, the first thing I noticed, was choppy video. I checked to see my drivers and everything was up-to-date and it was. I shut off the V-sync and the motion blur; which solved the problem. Why on Earth is motion blur even a thing? So, I'm playing it this afternoon and suddenly: it locks up midway through an animation and will not move. I can't exit out of the game, can't even bring up the task manager to force it down, so I soft-booted my pc instead. After this: I decided to apply for a refund. God bless GOG and their policy--they're far better than Steam. Is it a good game, is it a bad game? I can't honestly say. Maybe it's just me; maybe I'm getting too old for gaming
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Posted on: October 13, 2024
JonTheHuman
Verified ownerGames: 285 Reviews: 12
Good, could have been great with tweaks
I'd say this the clear second best Lovecraftian game, that I've played, behind Bloodborne. Incorporating a multitude of Lovecraft's stories, from direct references to neat little nods. Detective work is pretty standard fare but works really well in the setting and the flashback mechanic where you piece the event together was fun touch. Early on I was expecting to get annoyed with having to go to the various archives (news, police, city hall, hospital) but it's actually great for character immersion. Overall the writing that's there is solid and better than the usual overdone cliches of the genre and the environmental storytelling is really good, especially in the side quests. The city was a great idea and the atmosphere is top notch, although it could have gone further with the various factions considering how many macabre lookin cultists are openly walking around. Most of the music is good and fits, it's pure bliss when that smokey noir jazz track hits while wandering the city and I wish there could have been more songs like that. Combat is nothing great but can be a good and/or satisfyingly tense time. I discovered early on you can essentially stunlock enemy attacks, save for the largest baddie, with melee to save on expendable resources. Hopefully in the sequel they cut the size of the map in half and make each district more varied in appearance because while what we got is aesthetically great it's way too massive to the point of visual redundancy when the size serves no purpose beyond infrastructural realism. You can only enter a handful of places per zone and most of the interiors are copy-pasted with only minor variation, the first side quest interior I went into was an exact copy of the first main quest residence. The fast travel system also suffers because of the size when you're forced to re-walk/jog through familiar neighbourhoods with nothing to do instead of being able to just open the map and travel to previously discovered places.
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Posted on: December 6, 2024
stevec
Verified ownerGames: 223 Reviews: 1
Nice mixture of clues and combat
Nice mixture of clues and combat
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Posted on: January 23, 2025
RMB220
Verified ownerGames: 43 Reviews: 1
holy moley
sharks and guts just all over the shop!
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