Investigating involves examining every element of a crime scene then responding to supernatural cues which allow you to step into the past and see how events played out. If you have played the Rocksteady Batman games or the recent Switch release Astral Chain you pretty much know what you’re in for here. Gameplayīefore you can even get your land-legs The Sinking City introduces its detective mechanic. Reed prepares to launch into his Sharon Stone routine. This is where The Sinking City ascends above the numerous other games built around Lovecraftian lore. Often non-human characters who are portrayed in monstrous terms in Lovecraft’s stories are cast in a more sympathetic light here and the player is required to make key decisions while questioning their own prejudices. Prejudice is rife in Oakmont, and Reed must decipher the motives of not only the suspects he is investigating but also of those who hire him. Those who have read Lovecraft’s work will have noticed the less than subtle racist undertones to many of his tales, and thankfully the game makes no attempts to gloss over the discrimination which plagued the source material. The plot borrows heavily from HP Lovecraft’s works, with suspiciously ape-like humans and fish-faced Innsmouthers being heavily featured in additional to be-tentacled, sanity-sapping beasts lurking beneath the waves. Reed hopes to bring an end to his nightmares while also investigating a slew of disappearances, but shortly after disembarking Reed is drawn into investigating the grisly murder of a local aristocrat, and it soon becomes clear that Oakmont has a dark, mind-bending secret below its surface. In The Sinking City, you play as Charles Reed, a private investigator who is drawn to the fictional town of Oakmont after being continually tormented by visions of slithering, supernatural horrors. This is a review of the Nintendo Switch port, which released on 12 September 2019. It was released on PS4, Xbox One and PC on June 2019. The Sinking City was developed by Frogwares and was published by BigBen Interactive.
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