Sinking City

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Sinking City

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Lovecraftian detective simulator. More details to come. Feel free to fill in the details yourselves since I won't get a chance for a few hours.
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First I've heard of this. Has potential for sure. The trailers make me think it is a little heavy handed with its theme though. Lovecraft was very subtle, I'm hoping the trailers are an exaggeration of the weird elements.
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Well... there's always our friends over at GT. There are other articles there as well, that's the latest.
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I suspect the internet has multiple references to it.
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I suspect! :wink:
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RPS has run a half dozen articles about the game, the most recent about a week ago.

The Sinking City wants players thinking like (weird) detectives
It’s hard enough being a private eye when the world makes sense, but when there’s fish-men on every corner, weird cults and magic involved, investigating crimes in The Sinking City looks tricky. It’s a challenge I’m eager to try my hand at, though, after seeing the latest chunk of footage from Frogware’s upcoming survival horror detective adventure. There’s clues to find, but no prompts popping up saying you’ve cracked the case – the player gets to decide when they’ve built up a strong enough profile to accuse a suspect. Take an investigative peek for yourself below.

While The Sinking City will include some combat against supernatural monsters, and the occasional trip through mystical realms, the heart of it looks to be proper detective-work. Using systems lifted from Frogwares’s Sherlock Holmes series, players piece together a profile of the crime from a board of motives, suspects and evidence gathered. It’s an intriguing web of systems, aided by the protagonist knowing a bit of magic himself. In classic early 2000s supernatural detective fashion, he can see visions of the past, although they’re not exactly admissible in a court of law.
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MonkeyFinger wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:26 am I suspect! :wink:
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Moving to Epic.
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Ugh. Just seeing it's an Epic exclusive until June of 2020. Good luck, Sinking City.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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Only on PC. PS4 and XBone are available.

Metacritic has PC at 73%, Consoles are 63%.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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I was looking forward to this game and have had it on my Steam watch list for a while but I'm not going to buy it from Epic. The good thing about these Epic exclusives is that it's saving me money and time for other things.
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Smoove_B wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 2:31 pm Ugh. Just seeing it's an Epic exclusive until June of 2020. Good luck, Sinking City.
From the impressions I have been seeing, there is a lot to love about the game but also a lot of problems. If they fix them, it could be a really great game. Maybe by this time next year it will be fully patched and a much better game!
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Thanks to all those Epic customers for being the paid beta testers! :horse:
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Fine then, I'll just leave those Epic users to beta test the game before it arrives on Steam. ;)
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Same! :D
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I leave it to people with money for full price games to be my beta testers. I'm not really worried about which platform they do it on.
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