The Sinking City is a game of investigation genre taking place in a fictional open world inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The player incarnates a private investigator in 1920s, who finds himself in a city of New England, Oakmont Massachusetts. It's currently suffering from extensive waterflood, and its cause is clearly supernatural. The city trembles on the brink of madness. Can you investigate this beleaguered town and untangle the tragic extent of its failings or will you be driven beyond madness yourself?
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Frogwares
- Publisher
- Bigben Interactive, Frogwares
- Released
- June 27, 2019
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Time to beat
- 15 h rushed · 21 h main story
IGDB rating 7.0/10 from 141 ratings.
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