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Frogwares has announced The Sinking City Remastered for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. It will be available as a free upgrade to all existing owners of The Sinking City on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. A release date was not announced.

Here are the first details:

About

Originally released in June 2019 and developed on Unreal Engine 4, the upcoming remaster is being built in Unreal Engine 5 and promises an upgraded visual experience alongside some requested quality-of-life features. The core additions to the remaster include:

• Game fully relit in Unreal Engine 5.
• Enhanced locations with additional levels of detail and objects.
• 4K textures and improved reflections.
• Addition of a Photo Mode.
• Support for DLSS, FSR, and TSR upscaling.

A series of screenshots showing the game now running on Unreal Engine 5 have been released alongside some comparison images from the original. Official gameplay will be shown off soon.

 

[Gonzito]

No matter how pretty the game is, it is still a bad game unfortunately

 

[adamsapple]

They already put out a native Series and PS5 patch for this a few years back, the new 'remastering' look extremely barebones.

I think I own this, will check it out later.

 

[Shaki12345]

Completed this game and all sidequests. Great ambiance, great ideas, interesting stories within the world, mediocre sidequests that feel like copypasta, a LOT of jank and ultimately a decent game with lots of potential which obviously couldn't get fully realized due to money and time constraints.

 

[corgiix3]

Unless they worked on the animations as well meh

 

[ElCasual]

The best worst game that I have played. Love it.

 

[Bojji]

I bought it on PSN for like ~5$ few days ago. Good that they offer free upgrade but I don't expect better performance from UE5, that's for sure.

 

[BbMajor7th]

If they could kindly patch in an FOV slider and decouple camera movement from player movement, that'd be one hell of an improvement.

 

[Adapting]

The remastered is what the game should have looked like with the original release.

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

Loved it! Was on my replay list, so will surely gonna play the remaster! Much more interesting game than the AAA slop.

 

[emivita]

I enjoyed all the Sherlock Holmes games by Frogwares since the point&click era, but I still have to play The Sinking City.

I'm sure I'll find this enjoyable too, I'm also curious of the UE5 improvements and PS5 Pro performance. And hopefully the sequel delivers what the trailer promises.

 

[nowhat]

They already put out a native Series and PS5 patch for this a few years back, the new 'remastering' look extremely barebones.

I think I own this, will check it out later.

Yeah, this seems fairly pointless. But, I guess this is because Frogwares finally has the rights to this again? (if you don't know the story, look it up - some bizarre stuff) Maybe they're just honing their UE5 skills, so this is like a training excercise. As for the game... there's some eurojank for sure. At the same time, it does have the Lovecraftian vibe to it.

 

[Killer8]

I could've sworn this was announced months ago?

 

[Shmunter]

Still in my backlog. Love the vibe here.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I could've sworn this was announced months ago?

Not officially by the dev/publisher, but yeah, I posted a thread about it back in February when the rating for this remaster appeared on the Taiwanese gaming rating board.

 

[N0S]

Heimdall_Xtreme AnotherOne

 

[mdkirby]

Didn’t this already get a remaster? I know the situation was complicated due to their publisher screwing them tho.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I wish I liked it, but it just feels bad to play and I doubt remastering it will suddenly make it appealing. Ill try it of course since I have the PS5 version, but hopes and excitement are nonexistent.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Never even heard of this game

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I wish game devs would stop wasting money and resources on remasters/remakes on games that are not adults (18+ years old)

 

[N0S]

Never even heard of this game

This is like the fourth re-release lol

 

[{insert code here}]

Great game and if you're a fan of Lovecraft you gotta play it. I played it on a base PS4 and expected jank but it plays fine. There's one part of town where the ground geometry was all janked up and awkward looking. Atmosphere is there for sure.

 

[ClanOfNone]

The best worst game that I have played. Love it.

This sums it up for me, it has tons of faults but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.
Definitely down for another playthrough with an engine upgrade.

 

[Alebrije]

Good , need to complete they Game , Will wait for they upgrade

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

They should fire the modeling and costume artist, that backpack looks horrible... Even the backpack is hideous.

Who wears a suit with a backpack?

 

[Vandole]

I wanted to like this game so damn much, but it felt like it was designed using a potato. I'll stick with Cyanide's Call of Cthulhu.

 

[Flabagast]

Great ! never played it !

 

[Isa]

Interesting development. I like the game and have fond memories of it. Have it across PS and Xbox, already beat it once and was planning another go but with this I'll probably wait, unless the 2nd part beats it to release which I doubt. I'm keen on seeing how the second game differs from the first since its going far more survival horror ala RE with less investigating. On one hand I have hope but on the other for some reason it can be really hard for devs to get the gameplay loop and feel right, though some indies have managed fairly well.

 

[TGO]

They already put out a native Series and PS5 patch for this a few years back, the new 'remastering' look extremely barebones.

I think I own this, will check it out later.

Actually they just released it digitally for PS5 there was no upgrade patch for PS4 for original owners of the game because they had falling out with the publisher.
That was just there way to separate themselves from the publisher and profit from the PS5 version.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

I thought they already did this? Am I crazy?

 

[kiphalfton]

They already put out a native Series and PS5 patch for this a few years back, the new 'remastering' look extremely barebones.

I think I own this, will check it out later.

What looks bare bones? This is a good representation of what remasters should look like.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Completed this game and all sidequests. Great ambiance, great ideas, interesting stories within the world, mediocre sidequests that feel like copypasta, a LOT of jank and ultimately a decent game with lots of potential which obviously couldn't get fully realized due to money and time constraints.

Didn't you fall asleep during the video game?

 

[Hoddi]

I think my brain is broken. Every time this game comes up I keep reading the title in German.

'Und wat is it sinking about?'

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

The best worst game that I have played. Love it.

pretty accurate -- it's the gaming equivalent of a fun B-movie

Plenty of interesting choices and world building... the combat was awful but I didn't care much, the point was the dread atmosphere and strangeness of the world. I liked how open it felt with the directions and hints you were given, which come in the form of names of landmarks and streets without any stupid map waypoints that break immersion.

Sadly, it sounds like the sequel will go further away from the detective side that I enjoyed here, and more towards the weak half which was the action.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

And yet still no Bloodborne remaster, a game that people actually want remastered and that truly deserves a remaster.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Game was 5/10 at best. They really pushing for slop to get remastered.

 

[Baemono]

I suppose my Switch version won't get remastered for free

 

[MMaRsu]

More like the stinking city

 

[Starbuck2907]

It looks drastically better. It was pretty good for what it was. I might even revisit it now.

 

[Toots]

I bought it for cheap a few weeks ago and never got around to play it.
I can wait a few more month to play a better version.
Thanks Frogware for the free upgrade

 

[Mr Hyde]

Great news! I wanted an excuse to play through this again. I hope they have a Switch 2 upgrade in the works that is either free or has an upgrade path.

 

[AnotherOne]

Heimdall_Xtreme AnotherOne

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's said that part of the game's budget went to this Hollywood special effect.



They need to improve it

The protagonist runs in a funny way.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

More like the stinking city

The stinking shitty.

 

[GreenAlien]

That's nice.. The game is ok.

Might have been better without the open world. I didn't finish it because I wanted a better narrative and less tedium.

I prefered Call of Cthulhu.

Still, looking forward to part 2.