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SummaryThe 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.
Rated M
Rated Mfor Mature

Developer:Frogwares

The Sinking City

Released On: 
Jun 27, 2019
Metascore
71
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6.1
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Metascore
71
36% Positive
17 Reviews
64% Mixed
30 Reviews
0% Negative
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Jun 27, 2019
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Impulsegamer
It’s great to finally have a game that seems to put you right in the middle of one of H. P. Lovecraft’s worlds… that sense of strangeness that lies over everything like a fog that draws you in and embraces you in the oddness of it all is quite compelling. Best played at night with the lights off to truly become immersed in the world of The Sinking City.
Jun 25, 2019
81
IGN Italia
A good example of how to craft a Mythos game. Not for the faint of heart. Cool fact: a gamer who knows nothing about the mythos will probably make all the wrong choices in the game.
User score
6.1
36% Positive
143 Ratings
38% Mixed
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Mar 2, 2021
10
rBose
very good game and characters strongly recommend, good atmosphere and graphics
Dec 29, 2020
10
ScathachPreach
A really good take on a detective / crime story and lovecrafts mythos. The atmosphere is gorgeous (and somewhat fishy), and the game feels like a good mythos story with all the pulp needed. Just as it should be.
Jul 1, 2019
75
New Game Network
The Sinking City is a decent adaptation of Lovecraft’s work, meshing dark themes with a variety of great investigations that culminate into tricky decisions. If the combat was less clunky and the world more polished, it would have beckoned all to its desolate shore.
Jul 2, 2019
70
Trusted Reviews
The Sinking City is a near-miss, and a unique foray into surivival horror. It doesn’t coddle you, and it certainly doesn’t do any hand-holding, which makes it a unique detective outing let down in its execution by a number of tiny flaws. A sequel that focuses on making cases less humdrum, and cuts back on the combat, could be a hell of an offering for devout fans of the detective genre. The game isn’t bad, but it’s hard to care about what you’re doing when many cases in The Sinking City are so banal.
Jul 3, 2019
68
Hooked Gamers
While some of the quests do contain interesting stories, it’s not quite enough to make up for the weaknesses of the setting. I really wanted to like this game, and perhaps fans more interested in the source materials of Lovecraft or those interested in Frogwares’ evolving mechanics of detection will get a bigger kick out of it than I did.
Jul 22, 2019
60
GameGrin
A brilliant concept with some excellent ideas, let down badly by the game engine, inconsistent writing and plotting.
Jun 25, 2019
50
VideoGamer
The Sinking City is well worth playing for the initial rhythm of its casework and the freshness of its setting, but its mechanics, like its mystery, end up flooded.
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Sep 24, 2021
9
Sheblov
A normal game with a good storyline. The combination of many things in the lovecraft genre makes the gameplay truly interesting.
Sep 16, 2026
7
ShadTora90
Es un buen juego en líneas generales, quizás técnicamente esté debajo de lo que debe ser aún para la calidad de un AA, y puede que sus mecánicas se tornen repetitivas, la historia también es un poco floja pero siempre te tiene intrigado aun cuando el ritmo del juego es lento. podría tener mas puntos pero tiene muchos problemas en la optimización y con bastantes bugs, de todas maneras es una buena experiencia para pasar el rato. 74/100 sería mi puntaje final.
Aug 22, 2026
7
ToyaJa
For a AA game, really good. Combat is a little janky and gameplay is repetitive with most of the side quests basically being fetch quests but the story is interesting and the different game areas differ enough to keep things visually interesting. OST is also good. NPC pathing is a also janky and I would've loved for there to be more interaction with the open world.
Jun 6, 2020
4
hoanns
Solving cases is okay, but the badly made 'open world', clunky gameplay and awful npcs make this game too unimmersive for me to play. Shame, could've been an intriguing game if they developed it properly.
Jun 29, 2019
4
Gizilq
В этой игре плохо буквально все. 1. Абсолютно пустой опенворлд. По нему ходят болванчики родом из 2005 года. Там ничего не происходит. 3. 99% помещений будут лютой копипастой. Вплоть до расположения мебели и вещей. Учитывая что помещений в игре довольно мало, это очень плохо. 2. Хождение по адресам. Смотри как все происходит. Идет задание тебе говорят найти какого-то человека. Если известно где он, то открываешь карту и ищешь на ней "Район Зюзино, улица Затопленая, на пересечении улицы Гопницкой и Проспекта Обрыгалова". А потом ножками ищешь, так как номеров домов тупо нет. Если нет адреса, то идешь в Ратушу/Клинику/Газету/Библиотеку и ищешь адрес через архивы. И так постоянно. 3. Очень плохая боевка. 4. Только что. Прохожу значит майнквест и сталкивает меня игра с ребенком. Только вот разрабы не смогли нарисовать модельку ребенка и перед нами стандартная модель 180 сантиметрового мужика, которую я уже раз двадцать на улице видел. Эта игра настолько плохо сделана, что продолжаешь играть только для того чтобы посмотреть, что разработчики еще сделали не так.
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