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Frogwares · Published by Frogwares
Content notice: This game features violence, blood and gore, coarse language, and suggestive themes.
Mostly Positive — 75% positive (5,740 reviews) · Metacritic 71 · 28 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
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Action, Adventure · 2021 · More £30+ games
Explore the hauntingly beautiful world of The Sinking City Remastered, where Unreal Engine 5 brings back the atmospheric adventure originally released in 2021. Perfect for both new players and those returning to Oakmont's mysterious shores.
About this game
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.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7-7700, 3.60GHz
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 50 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 3.7GHz / Intel Core i7-9700K, 3.60GHz
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 50 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
The Sinking City 2 – New Extended Gameplay Trailer out now!
Time for another gameplay trailer from us. It takes place at Arkham Fish Market – a former hub of enterprise and trade, now taken over by Deep Ones from the ocean and other creatures. Seafood stalls, warehouses, and fishing equipment – all of it left forgotten by its former owners. The only sane person still living at this forsaken place is barely even human anymore. We hope you enjoy it! — Frogwares TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Team Frogwares)AnnouncementsOfficial
Pre-order The Sinking City 2 now!
Welcome to Arkham, where scarcity and dread now rule. Explore the drowned city, attempt forbidden rituals, confront the Slither and other mythos terrors, and decide how far you’ll go to save the one you lost.Pre-order BonusPre-order any edition of The Sinking City 2 to get The Chthonic Arsenal for free! Three weapons, each with its own unique look and feature: the “Shale Mary” handgun, “Breakwater” shotgun, and “Tektite Tommy” SMG.Deluxe EditionFace Arkham prepared. The Sinking City 2 Deluxe Edition includes the base game and The Arkham Field Kit, with three unique outfits: “The Anatomist”, “The Witness”, and “Heretic Heraldry”. It also includes three Dream Essence to learn your first Talent early, and a Resource Pack with a helpful mix of ammo, healing, and crafting items to ease you into the city.Premium Edition with 24-hour advanced access!And finally, the Premium Edition comes with 24-hour advance access to the game, The Arkham Field Kit, and The Holloway Manor: a 2-hour side quest inside a decrepit mansion where a family's history was curdled by occult practice. Complete it to bring the powerful “Bucking Bronco” revolver into your main game.See you in Arkham!Read full article on Community Announcements (Eeridis)Press Coverage
If you love LA Noire and Amnesia, grab Lovecraftian detective RPG The Sinking City for just $12
Oakmont's an eerie place. As you arrive in its muddied, waterlogged streets, it's quickly apparent that this city - perhaps once a bustling portside metropolis - is under the thrall of something truly sinister. What that is? No one knows: but it's madness-inducing, violence-inciting, and its tendrils are starting to hack at the corners of your vision. This is The Sinking City, Frogwares' 1920s-set RPG, and one of my favorites ever made. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hurry if you still want to grab six Steam Deck games for just $15, saving you $141 Get Total War Warhammer 3 for just $15, and score seven other games for free You've got just 24 hours to grab an atmospheric open-world survival crafter for more than a third off as it hits 1.0Read full article on PCGamesNPress Coverage
Jump scare! The Sinking City Remastered has surprise launched on Steam, and it's free to anyone who owns the original game
You know a game is serious about its horror when even its release is a jump scare. So it is for The Sinking City Remastered, which (following its announcement back in March) has surprise launched today... Read more.Read full article on PC Gamer (Robin Valentine)Press Coverage
Classic Lovecraftian RPG The Sinking City gets full remaster, playable now
We live in a world of story-rich games. Of course there's Baldur's Gate 3, then newcomers like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and South of Midnight, with old favorites like the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series feeling like timeless classics. For me, The Sinking City is one of those iconic narrative-driven adventures, thrusting you into the bowels of Oakmont, a once-bustling metropolis that's slowly falling into the sea. Lovecraftian horrors stalk the streets, every shadow is a threat, and now it's back, ahead of its sequel, in Unreal Engine 5. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Sinking City is getting a free remaster, and you can be in its sequel Original version of Lovecraft style horror game leaves Steam tomorrow The Sinking City devs now fully own the game, updates planned for PCRead full article on PCGamesN
