#The sinking city genres series#

You have to love game developers' self-referential humourĪll of this may sound like a lot but it's implemented in a very intuitive way. After you acquire enough evidence, you'll piece it all together in your Mind Palace in order to actually draw conclusions about the case at hand. The latter is the most involving as you not only collect clues, you can also use your Mind's Eye ability to observe cutscenes related to objects or reveal false walls as well as your Retrocognition ability which tasks you with placing events in order so you can obtain more information about your current case. From these hints, you'll end up narrowing down your search, choosing keywords to search for within a particular institution's archives, or finding evidence in a certain location. For example, you may receive a vague location of where to find someone or be told to investigate a particular building. Progression in The Sinking City relies on your ability to deduct what to do next which is usually (but not always) mostly spelled out for you within your Casebook which is accessible from the pause menu. Meanwhile, strange monsters are terrorising parts of the city so aside from your detective duties, there's a dash of simple combat that involves both melee weapons and guns. From then on, he gets wrapped up in a complicated plot that involves a noble ape-like man, a race of fish people, a cult, and plenty of unspeakable horrors. You play as private investigator Charles Reed who travels to the flooding Massachusetts city Oakmont in order to figure out why he's seeing ghastly visions. Lovecraft's short novel The Shadow over Innsmouth.

#The sinking city genres series#

Veteran detective game developer Frogwares who are best known for their fantastic Sherlock Holmes series including the excellent 2016 release The Devil's Daughter are trying their hand at something new: a detective survival horror game that's inspired by H. Good thing there are so many boats conveniently placed wherever you need them There have been tons of games based on Cthulhu Mythos yet few are as noteworthy as The Sinking City so here's my review. The Sinking City is also available for PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch