The Sinking City Remastered

《沉没之城》这部作品印象里就是一个历经波折的作品，开发商与发行商之间的法律纠纷曾一度导致游戏的下架上架又再下架，直到去年开发商Frogwares成功拿回了发行权之后游戏涨价，并对游戏进行了视觉和技术层面的升级，将其部分迁移至虚幻引擎5，才是目前的这个重制版版本！ [h1]视觉提升 核心未变[/h1] 和印象里的把老游戏从玩法到视觉的大幅度重制不同，本作的这个重制版主要的提升在于视觉上的重设，游戏的核心玩法、建模以及动画基本沿用原版，而视觉上的重制也更主要表现在光影的细节部分，把氛围感变得更加符合克系的背景，硬要和原版比较的话感觉更多的是风格上的差异化，因为很多原版的细节比如雨水的效果个人感觉比当前版本甚至还要更好一些，把它用轻量的复刻版来形容或许更贴切一些，当然游戏也并没有剥夺游玩原版的权力，开始游戏前你可以自行选择游玩版本！ Frogwares作为福尔摩斯系列的开发商，侦探推理一直是他们的强项，本作的核心玩法也依旧是福尔摩斯那一套，通过剧情地点来收集线索，并在思维殿堂分析证据和逻辑推理来推进游戏的进程，《沉没之城》在此之上又把克系元素融入了进去，虽然福尔摩斯系列的觉醒那一部作品也有这样的尝试，但却并没有把克系元素更好多去展现出来，《沉没之城》则是一个构建了独立原创的克苏鲁世界观，尤其是在重制版中光影的重制后，那种持续存在的压抑感和未知恐惧在本作中刻画的都非常好，尤其是运用超能力思维之眼查看过去的画面来为探案收集更多关键线索，这一环节密密麻麻的克苏鲁符号确实比较有冲击力！ 当然理智值也必不可少，过度接触超自然现象会导致幻觉和行动障碍,也是很好的把玩法和叙事结合了起来！ 在有着福尔摩斯系列的底蕴下，《沉没之城》这一套侦探推理玩法本质上是比较完善的，对喜欢探案推理的玩家来说确实是一种享受，但在某些方面依旧带来了不少负反馈。 这一作的地图是很大的，推理的过程自然免不了过多的跑图，但任务线上很大部分内容你找到的npc总是会让你给他白打工干一件事才能继续推进，很多任务都是通马桶，连贯性上有些让人浮躁，另外很多地点也不会给你明确指引，只会告诉你地图的位置，到达后才会在地图显示，这些叠加在一起虽然也不是什么大问题，但总归会让你玩的有些别扭！ 除此之外这游戏也有一个系统非常简单的战斗系统，可以使用一些老式武器来抵抗部分地区的怪物，但射击反馈几乎没有，有些怪物的数值也有些不平衡，在我看来倒更像是在克系元素的恐惧下给玩家的一点安全感，自卫用的，难以称为核心玩法的一部分！ [h1]写在后面[/h1] 总的来说游戏的核心还是探案推理，但克苏鲁元素的融入把他的受众稍微拓宽了一些，重制版本质上并没有对原版有什么核心创新与改变，除了视觉以外与原版差距表现不大，当然也可能也是为了刚宣布过的《沉没之城2》做一次技术上的尝试！ [quote=][b]评测出自：[u]网易 UU 鉴赏家培训计划[/u][/b] [b]感谢由[u]网易 UU 鉴赏家培训计划[/u]提供游戏[/b] [i][b]加速云存领游戏，满足热爱游戏梦！[/b][/i][/quote]

I'd love a good lovecraftian detective game and the world absolutely deserves one, but this one should be called "The way too large City with no content to fill it". Feels like 90 percent of the time my main job is traveling from point A to point B. Through a city full of facades, closed doors, repeating house layouts and assets, and npcs whose most interactive feature is complaining when you bump into them. I still spend quite some time in it in hopes the quests will be rewarding enough. But when a quest got unsolvable because I retreated one room too far from an enemy, which then just vanished, my patience was drained. I am looking forward to the second part, if they can make a better job then.

Honestly it's sad because the story is good and entertaining. But the fighting part is ♥♥♥♥ and the crafting even worse. I have no desire to try to finish the game because of that. Ammo is scarce and the only way to get some is to find them or craft them and in order to craft them you need gunpowder and shell casings. Guess where you can find them ? Only in boxes, bins and other ♥♥♥♥ like that across the map and you get a few from quests. There are also the infected areas which give you more. And now guess what happens if you don't have anymore ammo or resources to craft them ? Your are doomed. You can't keep completing quests because your melee attacks are worth nothing and two type monsters just one shot you. So basically you enter a house to gather evidence -> you go down into the basement with no ammo -> you stumble upon 4 small creatures, 2 that throw weird ♥♥♥♥ at you, 2 that dash towards you and one shot you and a big one that one shots you as well. Good luck. The only solution to that is to just go for a big 2 hours boring walk across all the map to try to get some gunpowder and shell casings. And crafting ammo is not cheap at all, getting gunpowder is hard and you sometimes need 3 gunpowder to craft 1 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ round. And the damage that your weapons do is not that great but absolutely necessary to at least have a chance to clear a house. Oh and surprise, some of the monsters keep getting up when you kill them and I don't even know if there is a way to totally kill them. I tried. If the fighting and crafting parts were more balanced and not that boring the game would have been way better. I will not go into a boring walk across all the map just to get a few gunpowder to at least be able to keep playing the game. I like hard games when they are not bullshitting you. Being hard and boring is a disaster. But if you have the nerves to get along with that the story is cool, even though the side quests are not that great.

This remaster has been left in a broken un-optimised state, frame-gen is broken, performance is a mess and the developers are radio silence for months only interested in selling us the sequel. If they ever fix it I'll pull this review.

I forced myself to complete the game, although large parts of it felt like a boring slog. As a fan of especially the earlier Frogwares titles, it saddens me that their recent games mostly boiled down to the same open-worldish formula that sacrifices quality for quantity with a simple framework for repetitive content that they can churn out quickly in an attempt to fill that world. Their open worlds may be nice to look at, but playing in them quickly ruins the illusion. In this game it's even more apparent, because of the action-adventure elements that want you to focus on combat and scavenging. They only have one or two templates for middle-class houses in the game, one for luxury villas, one for storage halls, one for ruined houses, etc. So every time you enter a ruined house, it looks the same as every other: the floor is broken in the same places, the stairs are in the same spot, the magically hidden entrances are exactly in the same spot, the loot is in the same spot and you know exactly when and where to expect enemies to spawn. You will see the same predictable locations uncountable times throughout the game, which severely hurts the credibility of the world, the potential horror atmosphere and the whole exploration aspect of it. (Seriously, what kind of cultist goes throughout the city and decides to conjure up some illusiory wall 50 times in exactly the same spot of the same floor plan? Even the domino blocks on some tables are arranged in exactly the same pattern throughout the world. And at one point I encountered an NPC who just cried in a cutscene after learning that her dog died, only to immediately afterwards continue reading her book with a bored look.) Combat is also nothing to write home about. There are not many different enemy types and you quickly learn their patterns. Your weapons and ammo is scarce at the beginning, but after progressing through the story a bit and pumping some XP into a basic perk system that mostly just gives minor attribute bonuses, the combat encounters just become a predictable annoyance that you have to deal with every time you enter an uninhabited location. The side cases boil down to uninspired fetch quests. And for a game that originally advertised itself as requiring the player to think for themselves and not having any waypoints that tell you where to go next, it really is just waypoints with extra steps: you always have a lead in your clues for a case that will very obviously point you at a specific location like "on road X, between road Y and Z", which you then roughly place on your map. You then go to that road and search for a marked door, but that's it. It's not like you even need to combine different clues on your own, everything you need is always spelt out in a single clue. Sometimes you need to head to an archive first and select three things that a specific clue gives you (e.g. "time period: current", "topic: citizen records", "district: X") in order to find the next clue towards a location, which is again just extra steps and does not really require much ingenuity on the player's part. The presentation of text clues is as immersive as reading through an SMS. It feels rushed, so I quickly stopped caring. The menu will summarize the important parts anyway. It also does not really feel like you are really doing detective work, since the main character just happens to have some supernatural abilities that lets him see and hear what previously happened in a location. It feels like a cheap way out of needing to come up with logical reasoning for things. The only thing that remotely feels like it requires the player to show some understanding of what's going on is when they need to bring those past illusions in the correct order. But even that can easily be brute-forced. The game also continues in the trend from previous games where the solution to the main case is always morally ambiguous and open to interpretation. Or in some cases it's not actually ambiguous, but the game's achievements for whatever reason seem to encourage you to pick the most despicable option. Ultimately, none of the options really have any meaningful repercussions for your playthrough and do not impact the endings at all. Most characters introduced throughout the story are quickly forgotten and I barely established any connection to the protagonist at all. Also, the DLCs are not worth their price. It's just more annoying fetch quests with barely any story to frame them.

I played the original initially with no issues, this new version keeps crashing and seems to have widespread optimization issues. It’s been sitting on my backlog for a while now, and I’ve been really looking forward to finally playing it but will wait until its patched. Edit - The Sinking City A Moody, Lovecraftian Mystery The Sinking City nails atmosphere. Walking through its flooded streets, foggy alleys, and crumbling buildings, you can almost feel the oppressive weight of the city pressing down on you. The game captures Lovecraftian horror beautifully the sense of dread and creeping madness is constant, and the world feels alive in a way that’s rare for detective games. Investigation is the core mechanic, and it’s genuinely satisfying when you piece together clues and follow threads to uncover hidden truths. However, the pacing can be uneven. Some cases feel brilliant and immersive, while others are bogged down by repetitive fetch quests or unclear objectives. Combat exists but is clunky and often feels secondary to the mystery-solving. Technical issues and occasional bugs can be frustrating, but they rarely ruin the experience. The story is dark, intriguing, and occasionally surreal, with multiple endings that make your choices feel meaningful. If you enjoy detective work, exploration, and Lovecraftian horror, The Sinking City is worth diving into just be prepared for some rough edges along the way.

Amazing but flawed. While it starts with an unpleasant first impression, with a janky camera, animations and unimpressive combat, it develops into a well-made, unique detective mystery game based on Lovecraftian lore. The writing is excellent and is probably the main reason to pick this game up. I like how the morality of every choice is always called into question, and how there is no 'correct' choice — every decision you make has its own shade of grey. Also the way you solve cases by adding evidence into your "Mind Palace" is really unique and well done. One thing I especially want to mention is the empty, useless open world, which unfortunately detracts from the overall experience. As for the remastered version of the game, it runs exceptionally badly for a game that doesn't even look particularly good and, if you enable ray-traced reflections, enjoy stuttering every two seconds. Plus, for some reason, there is no motion blur toggle, which is completely insane for a remaster of a video game released in 2025. If you enjoy good Lovecraftian stories, this game is definitely for you and I would recommend it.

[h3] Є сенс пробувати другу частину не пройшовши цю? Мені сподобалась лавкрафтіанська бридка атмосфера, хочу такеж, але краще.[/h3] Хоч і вийшов ремастер, але немає жодного бажання в це грати. Разів 10 починав грати і стільки ж покидав. Схоже, бойова система тут «аби була». Основний акцент у грі на детектив та загадки (що я не люблю в іграх). Головний герой - беземоційний покерфейс, якому на все, що відбувається, насрати. Купа бектрекінгу по коридорних, нецікавих локаціях, з убогими ворогами. Із плюсів для московоротих є повноцінна локалізація з озвученням.

Cthulhu is love and peace, but as far as remasters go this has to have sunken to the bottom of the barrel and aged like surströmming. Pros: [list] [*] City is now even more atmospheric thanks to visual overhaul. [*] 4K textures and FSR/DLSS/TSR support. [*] Slightly better controls and less clunky combat. [/list] Cons: [list] [*] Improved visuals are due UE5 and that's a doodoo engine with skidmark smears. [*] The city still too big, atmospheric yet soulless because non-story NPCs don't matter. [*] No trading, no bartering, no reason to explore the big city as there's no lore and the sole loot in game is mostly just crafting mats. [*] The infested zones see you use more resources that you gain if you fight. [*] Non-key evidence is sometimes hidden in onerous places, forcing PC to be at the exact spot and camera angle to see/get them. [*] Interact prompt distance for actual key items is at toddler's arm length when dime a dozen crafting mats shine from distance. [/list] Insults: [list] [*] Disappointing performance, 4080 Super and 9950X3D struggle to deliver ~70 FPS on 1440p, all High and without raytracing. [*] Remaster tries to sell you two quest packs that are even more of the same copypaste Dragon Age 2 style houses and fetch quests. [*] Not even single new interior design added to the investigations, making the copypaste just stab you under your fingernails. [/list] Get this from a heavy sale if you crave your eldritch spelunking dose. Or the bundle if you want to spend even more time working on Reed's leg day as you run across the city.