There are much worse things that could be said about a game - particularly because The Sinking City is more like Crime and Punishments-era Sherlock than the iffier The Devil’s Daughter Sherlock. In nearly every respect - from the voice acting, to the gameplay, to the graphics - it looks, feels, and plays almost identical to Frogwares’ take on Sherlock, so, really, if you have any opinion on those games, you’ll probably feel the same way about this game, too.
It begs the questions of quite how the developers brought these Lovecraftian monsters to life, and what the inspiration is behind something quite so unsettling - which unsurprisingly, is exactly what we asked community manager Sergey Oganesyan at the game's recent launch event.The Sinking City may be a brand new IP, but it’ll look awfully familiar if you ever played any of Frogwares’ Sherlock Holmes games. Seeing these distorted figures and fleshy abominations is part and parcel of The Sinking City experience, with the unnatural entities known collectively as Wylebeasts informing a large part of the game's horror. One of the high points of how the game plays comes from the incredible monster creation as you work your way through the various crime cases. It's a bizarre premise, but one that commits so wholeheartedly to the weirdness that it's impossible not to be drawn in, and then be swiftly disturbed by what you find lurking in the darkness. Oakmont has recently suffered a supernatural flood, bringing with it freakish monsters from the deep and a wave of hysteria that is sending people mad - adding an extra layer of difficulty for the population already embroiled in tensions between cross-species humanoids. Lovecraft, The Sinking City is the story of private investigator Charles Reed, who's travelled to the island of Oakmont by way of strange hallucinations and nightmares that he wants to learn the cause of.
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