Frogwares has revealed The Sinking City Remastered is out now on PS5, having only just confirmed the remaster a few weeks ago. Anyone who already owns the game can upgrade to the PS5 remaster for free.
You can view a quick comparison trailer above, but the main enhancements are a full rebuild in Unreal Engine 5, 4K textures and improved reflections, and "additional levels of detail and objects" in various locations. There's also now a Photo Mode, adjustments to the gameplay, and some new accessibility features.
In a press release, publishing director Sergiy Oganesyan said Frogwares has big plans for The Sinking City IP. "So, after our rather well-known struggles with the original, it feels amazing to have this positive moment be part of the game’s twisted history and for us to be the ones to fully decide it. Making it free to all our existing fans is our way of giving back to them for having supported us all this time through thick and thin."
The Sinking City 2 has already been announced for PS5, and it blew past a Kickstarter funding goal of $113,000 in less than two hours. By the end of the Kickstarter campaign, it had accrued more than $625,000.
In our original PS4 review of the game, we awarded a 7/10 rating and concluded: "The Sinking City is a captivating detective undertaking that dives into the hauntings of H.P. Lovecraft with a compelling narrative that is sure to question your viewpoint as well as reality itself. If you can look past its presentational shortcomings and mediocre combat system, the plight of private eye Charles Reed is one worth seeing for yourself."
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I actually just bought this in the last sale with all dlc for £8.09, great news. Had been on my wishlist for quite a long time, probably when you guys first reviewed it.
Are you planning on covering the remaster any further?
@__Seraph dont wait for other articles. go and enjoy it. I did several months ago and i enjoyed every bit of it.
Big Lovecraft fan, always wondered about this game. Sounds like this remake will hopefully address some of the apparent issues with the original.
Also bought this on sale in preparation for the remaster. Excited to check it out.
@__Seraph I doubt we'll review it again purely because there's so much other stuff going on at the moment.
This game always intrigued me but for whatever reason I just never pulled the trigger on it.
This remaster seems like it could be a good reason to change that.
The game is good providing you stick to the main story. The setting really nailed the Cthulhu mythos and the NPC's for the most part are spot on for feeling like they belong. The Deep One Hybrids are great for looking exacty how they should and characters like the librarian help set the vibe.
Where it falls down imo is the enemies are incredibly generic for the setting and over the course of the game you fight maybe 4-5 enemy types and 2 boss types. This is less of an issue if you follow the main story investigations, but as the side quests are more combat heavy if you go for 100% the combat gets boring.
So, I own the original, but when I open the remastered in the PS store (web), it wants money. Is there some small print (must own all DLC, etc) or something I'm missing?
EDIT: Never mind, found this on their site:
Guess I'll check when I get home from work
@Sergo Trust me, I don't plan to was just curious! I did hear there was a remaster coming so I was waiting for it, but it came a lot sooner than I expected, so I am ready to go! Glad to hear you enjoyed it, think I will too. You gonna play it again now the remaster is here?
@get2sammyb That's fair enough, I guess it wouldn't make sense to spend working hours reviewing it again. Enjoy it when you play the remaster!
I quite liked this game. As with most of their stuff, wandering around solving mysteries is great, but once we start trying to have fights and stuff it's a bit ropey. Still, good vibes though.
@get2sammyb could you not play the remaster for a couple of hours ,then maybe put the old review up with some bullet points for the remaster, its essentially the same game
It always surprises me when games like this get remastered. I quite liked it but it hardly set the world on fire. Like the Terminator Resistance remaster. Strange.
@FuriousMachine I looked and there was like 3 versions , if you search sinking city remastered, it shows up with the option to download
@SMJ I think its to drum up interest in the sinking city 2, I know they did have a kickstarter for it
@FuriousMachine
There was the first version which was playable on PS4/Xbox One and on current gen. Then they released a current gen only version - that's the version that's getting the free upgrade to this Unreal 5 engine version.
Will it auto download and replace the existing game. It just says owned for on the ps store but no option to download
@TheFakulty Mine's just giving me the option to play it when I look on the PS App so I assume it's just an update if you already own it. Not at my PS5 currently to check though.
How can the remaster be downloaded? Have the physical game, don't see any option...
@__Seraph nope, i am not a fan of playing one game more than once. Hoping the next will be at least as good as.
Bought the original on sale a few weeks ago, knowing that the remastered would be free for previous owners, and looking forward to checking it out
Bought it ages ago but never started it so i guess now is is good time to jump in.
This is how remasters should be - free.
Or, at least, an upgrade should cost $10.
Not like a full price for a remaster (I'm pointing at TLoU 1 and Until Dawn).
@GeeForce Aha, that's probably my issue, then. I forgot to check yesterday. I played the PS4 version for a bit when I got it and didn't love it, but figured I might give the game another chance with the remaster. If I have to pay for it, I'll pass, though
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