Developer Frogwares has unveiled a brand-new cinematic trailer for its promising Lovecraft-inspired open-world detective horror The Sinking City, just in time for Gamescom.
The Sinking City, which comes to Xbox One, PS4, and PC next year, unfolds in the fictional city of Oakmont, Massachusetts, during the 1920s. It’s here that private investigator Charles W. Reed finds himself, desperate to escape, as Frogwares puts it, “the creeping insanity that afflicts him”. As with the developer’s frequently enjoyable Sherlock Holmes series, The Sinking City focusses on exploration and detective work, albeit with a few more unspeakable Eldritch terrors than would ordinarily bother Baker Street.
For its latest cinematic trailer, Frogwares has opted to shine a rather grimy spotlight on The Sinking City’s more psychologically disorientating side, after all that nasty business with the razor blades and the tentacles last time around.
Source: Eurogamer Open-world Lovecraft horror The Sinking City gets disorientating in new cinematic trailer