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Spooky detective spruce-up The Sinking City Remastered gets a surprise launch

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Last updated: 13.05.2025 12:11
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The Sinking City Remastered – the Unreal Engine 5 spruce-up of developer Frogwares’ 2019 Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure – has slithered out of its tenebrous seclusion sooner than expected, and is available now for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.


For the uninitiated, The Sinking City tells the story of troubled private investigator Charles Reed as he travels to the supernaturally flooded city of Oakmont, Massachusetts, in search of a way to quell his hellish visions. There’s a bit of gunplay as the cosmic horror begins to take hold, but mostly it’s a game of exploration and investigation, playing out across a series of open-ended cases and the titular open world.


All that’s true of The Sinking City Remastered, of course, but Frogwares is also promising an “upgraded visual experience alongside some requested quality-of-life features”. There’s talk of enhanced and fully relit locations with additional levels of detail and objects, for instance, alongside 4K textures, improved reflections, “various” gameplay adjustments, and new accessibility features. There’s also a photo mode and, on PC at least, support for the likes of DLSS, FSR and TSR upscaling.

The Sinking City Remastered comparison trailer.Watch on YouTube


To mark The Sinking City Remastered’s arrival, Frogwares has released a new trailer showcasing some of the differences between the 2019 original and its new Unreal Engine 5 update. And if that’s got you in the mood for some eldritch adventuring, The Sinking City Remastered gets its digital release today on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S – and it’ll be available as a free upgrade for all existing owners.


Frogwares’ remaster comes ahead of The Sinking City 2, which was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter earlier this year. The sequel is again set in 1920s America, but this time sees players exploring the flooded streets and crumbling buildings of Arkham in an survival horror-style adventure said to shift away from the deduction focus of its predecessor in favour of combat and exploration.


All this activity follows Frogwares’ lengthy dispute with publisher Nacon over the rights to the original The Sinking City. Since a resolution was last year, the studio has taken over as The Sinking City’s publisher, updated the Steam build, and released new DLC. The Ukrainian studio also found time to crowdfund and release 2023’s Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, as it continued to adjust to life during Russia’s ongoing invasion.


“We plan to do big things with The Sinking City IP, starting with the sequel and then beyond,” Frogwares publishing director Sergiy Oganesyan wrote in a statement accompanying today’s remaster news. “So, after our rather well-known struggles with the original, it feels amazing to have this positive moment be part of the game’s twisted history and for us to be the ones to fully decide it. Making it free to all our existing fans is our way of giving back to them for having supported us all this time through thick and thin.”

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