The Sinking City Reviews
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
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
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
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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 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.
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.
The Sinking City brings together Lovecraftian horror with detective gameplay into a solid horror mystery game.
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.
The Sinking City took a while to get its hooks into me and, once I got past some of it’s issues, especially the combat, I found myself thoroughly enthralled by its compelling narrative, exploration and puzzle solving gameplay.
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
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
It's the kind of game that starts with its best foot forward before petering out over the course of ten hours.
It’s no pleasure to be so critical of a title which innovates on the third person adventure genre while offering an engaging plot. The Sinking City was clearly created with a strong vision in mind, and its failings are largely technical. There is much to love, and I will be going back to experience more of the story, but given the current state of the Switch port, I cannot recommend it. Wait to see if Frogwares release a patch before sinking any time into this one. I’m giving it the Thumb Culture Bronze award.
The Sinking City might be worth looking into for anyone who enjoys using their noggin to solve investigations. It may be even more intriguing if you enjoy getting sucked into Lovecraft atmosphere. You might even say we can never have too much of either of these and that's probably true. This game shouldn't be overlooked at all, but what lies here is potential drowned in a sea of mishaps. If only the optimization and performance on Nintendo Switch was a little better and the controls didn't feel like it was borrowed from a previous console generation, it could've been smooth sailing to a full recommendation.
The Sinking City for Nintendo Switch has managed to transfer all the essence of PC and other consoles version, but it has paid the price in performance and in several technical downgrades in areas where the game was not brilliant already. However with the good and the bad of the original work, if you are a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, you will have the opportunity to enjoy this portable version, and with some additions to the Nintendo system.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
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
The Sinking City (TSC) is an invitation to read, listen and be part of a STORY. Even though it's classified as an Action-Adventure, most of the game is about reading and listening to the story. All other game mechanics (character, combat, npcs, missions, etc...) can be found in other games made in a similar or better way. To play TSC, you need to like a SLOWER game pace and see pleasure in searching for things at your screen.
If you like investigative adventures with a plot of mysteries and hints of psychological terror, The Sinking City is your game. Keep in mind that it is limited in some ways, but I'm still sure that it will capture you in its exciting history.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Sinking City on the PS5 is the definitive way to play this awesome Lovecraft-themed exploration and investigation game. Despite a handful of disappointing enhancements (the DS triggers, content moved to DLC, and limited info in the Activities), there are far more positive enhancements within the actual gameplay that counter these. The game looks a lot cleaner, the atmosphere is much thicker, the gameplay is smoother, and the loading times are so short, you can’t even take a sip of your drink before it’s completed. If you overlooked this game on launch, in 2019, don’t make the same mistake – pick it up on the PS5 and experience the best version as you easily sink over 40 hours into it.