After a quiet yr beneath the waves, The Sinking City 2 has resurfaced with a model new trailer and an official Kickstarter marketing campaign launch.
Exactly one yr after its announcement, the brand new trailer for The Sinking City 2 provides us our first take a look at pre-alpha gameplay and the anticipated deal with Lovecraftian horror first, with survival, and investigation gameplay combined in that developer Frogwares is embracing as its signature fashion. The staff has additionally revealed a developer deep dive with a extra detailed take a look at what the staff is planning for fight, exploration, and optionally available investigation.
Alongside these trailers, Frogwares has launched a Kickstarter at this time to assist get the sport over the end line. In an announcement, CEO Wael Amr defined that the Kickstarter funding was obligatory as a result of ongoing battle in Ukraine:
After 3 years of this horrid battle hanging over our each day lives, we have realized to adapt, although it has by no means been simple. In 2023 once we launched Sherlock Holmes The Awakened with the assistance of Kickstarter and our loving followers, we constructed ourselves a security web that saved us greater than as soon as. From energy outages and the necessity for staff members to relocate on brief discover, to having to pause growth for days, this security web was essential. Given that The Sinking City 2 is a much more complicated and demanding recreation, we’ve determined to take the identical route as earlier than.
Frogwares has confronted quite a few challenges over time in its work on each the unique The Sinking City, and now its sequel. In addition to the immense challenges of creating video games throughout wartime, Frogwares was locked in a publishing rights wrestle over the primary The Sinking City with unique PC writer Nacon that resulted within the recreation being pulled from some platforms again in 2020. Fortunately, Frogwares received full publishing rights final yr, and introduced it had settled its disputes.
The Kickstarter for The Sinking City 2 is live now, with a goal of $105,000 USD.
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