The Sinking City Player Reviews

Pros: Story, characters, mood, atmosphere, nice detective work, difficult grey moral choices and quite good graphics for a small AA studio. Cons: Extremely repetitive interior layouts, clunky combat, only a handful of different enemies and many bland fetch side quests. All in all just for Frogwares Sherlock fans or Lovecraft fans recommendable.

A slightly below average experience. The story is ok, engaging even at times, but the redundant and repetitive gameplay makes you want to scream in the end. Hours spent running around the empty map, endless and uninspiring fetch quests, wonky gunplay AND heavy reliance on the outdated and boring craft

I love Lovecraftian horror, but video games have really struggled to bring these mythos to life. Most of the games get the atmosphere and monster design down, but can't nail a good gameplay loop or decent story. By far the best game for this is still Call of Cthulhu: Dark