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The Sinking City
Released On: Jun 27, 2019
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6.0
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Metascore
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Based on 51 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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59% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 51 Critic Reviews
71
33% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
59% Mixed
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It’s great to finally have a game that seems to put you right in the middle of one of H. P. Lovecraft’s worlds… that sense of strangeness that lies over everything like a fog that draws you in and embraces you in the oddness of it all is quite compelling. Best played at night with the lights off to truly become immersed in the world of The Sinking City.
A good example of how to craft a Mythos game. Not for the faint of heart. Cool fact: a gamer who knows nothing about the mythos will probably make all the wrong choices in the game.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 272 User Ratings
6.0
38% Positive
104 Ratings
104 Ratings
32% Mixed
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
30% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 272 User Ratings
6.0
38% Positive
104 Ratings
104 Ratings
32% Mixed
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
30% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
A really good take on a detective / crime story and lovecrafts mythos.
The atmosphere is gorgeous (and somewhat fishy), and the game feels like a good mythos story with all the pulp needed. Just as it should be.
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The Sinking City is a decent adaptation of Lovecraft’s work, meshing dark themes with a variety of great investigations that culminate into tricky decisions. If the combat was less clunky and the world more polished, it would have beckoned all to its desolate shore.
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. A sequel that focuses on making cases less humdrum, and cuts back on the combat, could be a hell of an offering for devout fans of the detective genre. The game isn’t bad, but it’s hard to care about what you’re doing when many cases in The Sinking City are so banal.
While some of the quests do contain interesting stories, it’s not quite enough to make up for the weaknesses of the setting. I really wanted to like this game, and perhaps fans more interested in the source materials of Lovecraft or those interested in Frogwares’ evolving mechanics of detection will get a bigger kick out of it than I did.
A brilliant concept with some excellent ideas, let down badly by the game engine, inconsistent writing and plotting.
The Sinking City is well worth playing for the initial rhythm of its casework and the freshness of its setting, but its mechanics, like its mystery, end up flooded.
I'm not gonna lie, this game has lots of issues : combat gameplay is horrible, menus freezing, bugs, repetitive (houses look like the same) but I give a 7 for the atmosphere; it's not a big budget game, you have to take that in consideration. I enjoyed playing it despite of these big flaws.
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Как игра она интересная, но выглядит и играется прям привет из нулевых. глядя на нее нельзя сказать что игра 2019 года. По Скидке можно смело рекомендовать, сюжет тут добротный! А концовка "дно" дно тонущего города)
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В этой игре плохо буквально все.
1. Абсолютно пустой опенворлд. По нему ходят болванчики родом из 2005 года. Там ничего не происходит.
3. 99% помещений будут лютой копипастой. Вплоть до расположения мебели и вещей. Учитывая что помещений в игре довольно мало, это очень плохо.
2. Хождение по адресам. Смотри как все происходит. Идет задание тебе говорят найти какого-то человека. Если известно где он, то открываешь карту и ищешь на ней "Район Зюзино, улица Затопленая, на пересечении улицы Гопницкой и Проспекта Обрыгалова". А потом ножками ищешь, так как номеров домов тупо нет. Если нет адреса, то идешь в Ратушу/Клинику/Газету/Библиотеку и ищешь адрес через архивы. И так постоянно.
3. Очень плохая боевка.
4. Только что. Прохожу значит майнквест и сталкивает меня игра с ребенком. Только вот разрабы не смогли нарисовать модельку ребенка и перед нами стандартная модель 180 сантиметрового мужика, которую я уже раз двадцать на улице видел.
Эта игра настолько плохо сделана, что продолжаешь играть только для того чтобы посмотреть, что разработчики еще сделали не так.
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Summary The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You’re a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what has possessed the city… and the minds of its inhabita...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date: Jun 27, 2019
Developer:
- Frogwares
Publisher: Frogwares
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