The Sinking City Reviews
The Sinking City is an excellent adventure game that doesn’t quite reach greatness because it’s saddled with a frankly awful combat system.
The Sinking City is deeply evocative in its oppressive dourness, and stays true to the investigative backbone of Cthulhu. We are presented an open world of horror and suspense that HP Lovecraft surely would have enjoyed investigating.
The Sinking City is the best game when it comes to recreating the Cthulhu Myths so far and is without a doubt a great horror game and a fascinating detective RPG
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Sinking City, like most of Frogwares' other titles, offers a great concept with a somewhat poor execution. The severe lack of polish destroys the promising atmosphere, and some of the misguided gameplay elements can be annoying. If you're willing to look past that, however, then you get a very enjoyable investigative thriller in and of itself, even without those Lovecraftian elements.
The Sinking City feels like a deliberate failure. There's no sign of a struggle to overcome the challenges of game design and the game fails to innovate or feel unique. Trodding through this rotten world, which is wrought with imperfections, ravaged by age-old bugs and an atmosphere that fails to convey the horror it aims for. The Sinking City fails to look Call of Cthulhu in the eye, let alone match Lovecraft's tales of fear and madness.
The Sinking City is not a great game, but it was one that I enjoyed in-spite of that fact. For the unfamiliar, The Sinking City is a detective-mystery...
The Sinking City is a very raw and conceptually flawed product with awful shooting, mindless crafting and an unnecessary RPG-system. It is better to read the latest novel "Ghosts of the Depths" by Christian Robert Wind.
Review in Russian | Read full review
The SInking City Is a pretty good adventure game, with a good universe, but the open world feature is annoying and the game suffers from multiple graphic diseases.
Review in French | Read full review
The Sinking City is an ambitious attempt to bring a fresh take to the world of Lovecraft. If you're an unabashed fan of the lore, or don't mind repetitive gameplay, you'll enjoy what's on offer here. Otherwise, you'll probably end up going slowly mad.
If sorting and resolving issues is one of your favorite past times, then The Sinking City is worth playing, but it’s a shame that this title is a bit stuck. At least the story and the solution of the issues are very well put together.
A horror action-adventure game that does little on the horror aspect. It's full of inconsistency, and while it pays homage to Lovecraftian fiction, it falls extremely flat.
Story of The Sinking City is good as novel but just story is interesting nothing more. Also animations and game mechanics feeling like playing old generation games.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
As a gamer who loves detective games, I enjoyed playing The Sinking City despite all its issues. And if you're a big fan of Lovecraftian games, I recommend this game, because it is the best Lovecraft inspired game on the market. However, The Sinking City has lots of technical failings and some of gameplay mechanics are lacking quality. As much as the story and atmosphere are incredibly good, these issues are frustrating.
Review in Persian | Read full review
It's a bad decision that create The Sinking City as an open world game, which makes the gameplay like a heap of loose sand. But the story is interesting, as well as being a detective.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Some bad gameplay elements, the predetermined story that completely ignores player's choices and repetition make The Sinking City look like a fairly mediocre experience that failed to surpass expectations.
Review in Greek | Read full review
What goes down must come up. The Sinking City is more than the sum of its glitchy b-game parts. Balanced detective work makes up for shoddy gunplay. A gruff and well-realized cast makes up for brain-dead AI. This is unironically a highwater mark for both detective fiction and Lovecraftian Horror in video gaming.
Overall, The Sinking City is an average game with good graphics but the gameplay isn't for everyone. I think I would have liked this game more if the combat was better and if it wasn't so slow paced. Other than that, people that like games about investigating things will love playing The Sinking City.
If we want to have a general overview of the game, nothing but "lost potential" will do the trick. The Sinking City is full of good and engaging features that if the technical problems and carelessness of the creators had not been taken care of, the situation would have been completely different and we would have had a great title and perhaps a masterpiece instead of a mediocre game.
Review in Persian | Read full review
It could have been a great game if it gave us more control over the gameplay and the city we are exploring, a victim of the tiresome neediness to make everything an open world game, where more is always better. With a few cuts here and there, and a more focused campaign, The Sinking City could be a horror classic, but in this state, with all this bugs, it belongs only to the sea.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Sinking City is a near-miss, and a unique foray into surivival horror. It doesn’t coddle you, and it certainly doesn’t do any hand-holding, which makes it a unique detective outing let down in its execution by a number of tiny flaws.