A quick important note before I begin – I currently work at Frogwares and while I had no input in The Sinking City, nor any of its post-launch support, me working with the team that developed the game may still bias my opinion no matter how hard I try to let it not affect what I think of the game.
I’m not aware of all the details of what happened early in what would become The Sinking City development, but back in 2014 Frogwares announced that they will be developing a Call of Cthulhu game to be published by Focus Home Interactive. Few years of no news on the project later, things have changed. Cyanide were announced as a new developer for the Call of Cthulhu, while Frogwares were to develop their own separate take on the Lovecraftian lore with The Sinking City. Now that I’ve written about the utterly disappointing Cyanide title, is The Sinking City any different? Well, it’s plenty different. Not always for the better, though.