Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!
The Sinking City Remastered dropped by surprise!
If you know anything about me, you should know that I’m obsessed with surprise drops. One of my favourite developers doing a surprise drop is especially exciting for me, even if it’s a remaster. On May 13, The Sinking City Remastered dropped for PC and current-gen consoles. It makes sense, what with the build-up to the launch of The Sinking City 2, which is expected sometime this year. Frogwares also dropped a comparison trailer of the remastered versus original versions of the game.
The Sinking City initially launched in June 2019, having been built on Unreal Engine 4. (There was a long-fought battle for Frogwares to get the publishing rights back.) The Sinking City Remastered was rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 to upgrade the visual experience and add some requested quality-of-life features. The game now features 4K textures, improved reflections, enhanced locations (more details and objects), a photo mode, support for upscaling, and more.
Developed and published by Frogwares, The Sinking City Remastered is available now for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series. Players who already own the game can get this version for free.
Interpersonality simulator The Guiding Spirit announced
The Guiding Spirit is a party-based game with role-playing elements in a chaptered storybook format. You don’t control the heroes… you create them. Characterize them. Guide them. Maybe even kill them (oops). Hundreds of handcrafted story scenes make sure each choice counts. Your hero will travel through the savage land of Anderelm, with you as their Guiding Spirit. As chaos intensifies, your hero will discover new people and places, plunder in monster-infested dungeons, and learn about the world they are trying to survive.
The key features of The Guiding Sprit, from a press release, are:
- 14 ancestries
- Over 30 professions (they can be a warrior, a wizard… or something more common like a shopkeeper or… a gravedigger?)
- Over 160 personality traits (greedy, jealous, impatient, picky, snarky)
- Over 70 standard and challenging survival traits (clever, strong, missing eye, sleepwalker)
- Over 65 background story elements (childhood events, goals, core memories)
- Over 170 skills and specializations (weapon, environment, enemy, trap, lock and other specializations)
- Over 100 special abilities and spells
- Multiple followers, domains, constellations and more
- [Combine the above features] to get a unique background story and gameplay style!
Developed and published by Dice Impact, The Guiding Spirit will be released for PC via Steam in 2026.
A new demo for The Necromancer’s Tale is available now
Lovecraft-inspired gothic RPG The Necromancer’s Tale explores the depths of dark magic in a game blending narrative-driven exploration with the chilling rituals of necromancy, all with the backdrop of 18th-century Italy. Last week, a demo launched, including the game’s opening chapters and a dungeon crawl. In The Necromancer’s Tale, take on the role of a minor noble thrust into the dark arts and having to master forbidden rituals and command an undead army. Here, necromancy isn’t just a skill: it’s described as an immersive journey into secrecy, manipulation, and moral decay. The layered narrative spans 400,000 words and over 180 NPCs.
“In The Necromancer’s Tale, necromancy isn’t just another branch of magic—it’s the heart of the story,” say Game Director Sam Redfern and Marketing Director Kirsty Halloran in a press release. “It’s about choice, sacrifice, and the slow, inevitable pull of darkness. We want players to feel the weight of every decision, every ritual, and every life they take—or bring back.”
Developed by Spiderwinkle Games and developed/published by Psychic Software, The Necromancer’s Tale will be released for PC via Steam in July 2025.
Free-to-play Persona 5: The Phantom X launches this June
Persona 5: The Phantom X is scheduled to launch for iOS/Android and PC via Steam in just over one month. And, as a bonus, simultaneously in Japan and the West! It features Japanese voice-overs with English or Japanese text. The free-to-play RPG launched over one year ago in China, Taiwan, and South Korea.
Here are the story details from Atlus:
After awakening from a nightmare, the protagonist is thrust into a changed world drained of hope… And the new faces he encounters are no less strange: an eloquent owl named Lefaye, a long-nosed man and a beauty donned in blue. As he navigates the mysterious realms of the Metaverse and the Velvet Room, and grapples with ruinous visions that threaten his everyday life, he must discover what there is to take from this new world—and all in true Phantom Thief style.
Developed by Black Wings Game Studio and published by Atlus, Persona 5: The Phantom X will be released for iOS/Android and PC via Steam on June 26 in Japan and the West.
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