Frogwares has announced that its upcoming Lovecraftian survival horror game, The Sinking City 2, will be released in the first half of 2026. While no date had been set before, Frogwares has been hinting at a possible surprise launch this year. Now, the studio has decided to communicate its need for more time to finish the game. It gives two reasons: the ongoing war in Ukraine and the significant genre shift when compared to The Sinking City.
“Developing a game during a war isn’t something you can ever really prepare for, but something you need to keep adapting to,” says Sergiy Oganesyan, Head of Publishing at Frogwares, in a press release. “At one point, we were losing power for days as drones and missiles hit our power grid. When that tactic stopped working, it became mass drone swarms every other night, going from midnight until dawn. You work all day, then spend the sleepless night listening for explosions, and somehow still need to function the next morning… These things all slowed us down regularly to the point where it just doesn’t make sense to try to rush what we have left to meet a date that we no longer feel is worth chasing. How Moscow’s tactics to terrorize civilians will change again as winter comes is anyone’s guess, so we’d rather be ready to adapt again, knowing we’re able to take our time.”
Frogwares also needs to adapt to the shift from investigative adventure games, which it has developed for more than twenty years, to survival horror. It requires different tension, pacing, combat, etc. And that requires slower development.
The studio shared 13 screenshots today (one is above, the rest are below), showcasing the game’s setting, enemies, and signature Lovecraftian atmosphere.
“Alongside the 13 new screenshots shared today, we’ll also be showing a lot more gameplay over the next few months to let everyone see how development is going,” says Anna Bieniek, Senior Social Media Manager at Frogwares, in the same press release. “The Sinking City 2 is the first time we’ve done big, private beta tests with our community so early in the development process, and their feedback has been instrumental in shaping the game. Because of this, we’ve actually been a lot less stressed about showing stuff publicly to try to gauge reception. But we’re keen to now start showing more people what we’ve been working away on all this time.”
Developed and published by Frogwares, The Sinking City 2 will be released for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X.
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