
This is in part due to Frogwares games, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter and now The Sinking City both being published by Bigben Interactive. Close, but no Shoggoth.”įrogwares were in the news in the last few days thanks to a dispute with their former publisher Focus Home Interactive, seeing their older Sherlock Holmes games delisted from digital platforms. The investigative parts are excellent, and this is probably the best Lovecrat adaptation since Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, but it still never really lives up to its potential. As Steve wrote in our review, “The Sinking City promises a nightmarish journey through a Lovecraftian townscape filled with monsters and threatening cults, but too often falls into a loop of forced combat and resource hunting.

Lovecraft.Set in the fictional city of Oakmont, Massachusetts during the 1920s, the story follows private investigator and war veteran Charles W. The Sinking City launched back in June to a muted reception as it failed to live up to the promise of Frogwares’ interpretation of the Lovecraft universe. The Sinking City is an action-adventure game developed by Frogwares and inspired by the works of horror fiction author H.


Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories” The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Summary: The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P.
