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.
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 PC (via Steam and GOG), PS5, and Xbox Series X/S – and it’ll be available as a free upgrade for all existing owners.