After a quiet 12 months beneath the waves, The Sinking City 2 has resurfaced with a model new trailer and an official Kickstarter marketing campaign launch.
Exactly one 12 months after its announcement, the brand new trailer for The Sinking City 2 provides us our first have 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 style. The workforce has additionally revealed a developer deep dive with a more detailed have a look at what the workforce is planning for fight, exploration, and elective investigation.
Alongside these trailers, Frogwares has launched a Kickstarter at present to help get the game over the end line. In a assertion, CEO Wael Amr defined that the Kickstarter funding was essential due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine:
After 3 years of this horrid conflict hanging over our day by day lives, we've discovered to adapt, although it has by no means been straightforward. In 2023 once we launched Sherlock Holmes The Awakened with the help of Kickstarter and our loving followers, we constructed ourselves a security internet that saved us more than as soon as. From energy outages and the need for workforce members to relocate on short discover, to having to pause improvement for days, this security internet was essential. Given that The Sinking City 2 is a far more advanced and demanding game, we’ve determined to take the identical route as earlier than.
Frogwares has confronted numerous challenges over time in its work on each the unique The Sinking City, and now its sequel. In addition to the immense challenges of developing games during wartime, Frogwares was locked in a publishing rights battle over the primary The Sinking City with unique PC writer Nacon that resulted within the game being pulled from some platforms back in 2020. Fortunately, Frogwares won full publishing rights last year, 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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