From Press Release:
10 July 2026, Kyiv, Ukraine | Today, Frogwares has opened pre-orders for The Sinking City 2, its upcoming Lovecraftian survival horror game, which is launching on August 18, 2026, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
A new trailer featuring brand-new gameplay has been released alongside a look at much of the bonus in-game content available to players who pre-order the game.
Store Pages and Social Links:
https://link.frogwares.com/tsc2 PRICE REVEAL | UNDER THE GENRE’S GOING RATE
Frogwares has also announced the game’s pricing, with the Standard Edition set at USD $49.99 / EUR €49.99 / GBP £41.35.
Seeing pre-orders go live is quite a surreal milestone for us. It means the game is basically at the finish line, and that’s not something we were always sure would happen. The Sinking City 2 is the most ambitious game we’ve ever made, built under circumstances most studios never have to plan for by a team working remotely across Ukraine and beyond. Even now, with around two months till launch to go, we made the call to move the entire project over to Unreal Engine 5.8 because we believed the performance gains were worth the effort for our players.
Our pricing follows the same philosophy. While most survival horror games today launch at $60 or more, we’re launching at $49.99 because we want to be fair and give as many people as possible the chance to step into Arkham with us. – Sergiy Oganesyan, Publishing Director, Frogwares.
PC SPECS REVEALED
Frogwares has also released its current minimum and recommended PC specs for the game.
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 11 x64
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-8700K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
MEMORY: 16 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | AMD RX 5700, 8GB
VRAM DIRECTX: Version 12
STORAGE: 70 GB available space, SSD required.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Targeting 1080p \ 30fps on Low preset. The listed specifications were evaluated using TSR and comparable technologies.
RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 11 x64
PROCESSOR: Core i5-14600K | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
MEMORY: 32 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | AMD RX7900XT, 12GB VRAM
DIRECTX: Version 12
STORAGE: 70 GB available space, SSD required.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Targeting 1440p \ 60fps on Balanced preset. Using TSR and comparable technologies should further improve performance.
PRE-ORDER EDITIONS AND CONTENT
With pre-orders now live on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, players can choose from three editions, each offering bonus content in addition to the base game.
- Standard Edition – Base game, Chthonic Arsenal pack – $49.99
- Deluxe Edition – Base game, Chthonic Arsenal pack, and The Arkham Field Kit – $54.99
- Premium Edition – Base game, Chthonic Arsenal pack, The Arkham Field Kit, Holloway Manor, and 24-hour advanced access – $59.99
The Chthonic Arsenal
Mythical weapons to give you options when the abyss fights back. Face Arkham in style. Wield the Chthonic Arsenal: the “Shale Mary” handgun, the “Breakwater” shotgun, and the “Tektite Tommy” SMG, each with its own look and features.
The Arkham Field Kit
Face Arkham prepared. The Arkham Field Kit adds three outfits for the main character: “The Anatomist,” “The Witness,” and “Heretic Heraldry.” It also includes three Dream Essence to learn your first Talent early and a Resource Pack with a helpful mix of ammo, healing, and crafting items to aid your first steps in the city.
The Holloway Manor
On the cliffs outside the city of Arkham, the Holloway Manor keeps its lights low. The house belongs to an old family whose history curdled into occult practice–the kind that Lovecraft would trace through buried lineages and rites that never quite ended. Rooms interlock like a puzzle box, dusty heirlooms open doors, and the house rewards your curiosity with paths you were not meant to find. See the job through, and the “Bucking Bronco” revolver you claim stays with you in the main game.
About The Sinking City 2The Sinking City 2 is set in a Lovecraftian vision of 1920s America, in the infamous city of Arkham. A supernatural flood has driven out all but the most deranged residents, leaving decay and eldritch horrors that roam the streets. Step into the role of Calvin Rafferty, an occult adventurer whose cavalier actions have led to devastating consequences. After a dreaming ritual goes wrong, his girlfriend, Faye, is left trapped in a mysterious sleep. Now Calvin must navigate the drowned streets of a derelict city in a desperate attempt to bring her back. On his quest, he’ll come face-to-face with a plague of otherworldly creatures, the Slither, who possess and twist the dead into lethal, walking puppets.
Game Features
- Fight to Survive: Use an arsenal of 1920s-inspired weapons to fight against Eldritch abominations.
- Explore The Decaying City of Arkham: A world of rotting apartments, flooded markets, and abandoned hospitals that you’ll explore by foot and by boat.
- Find and Use What You Can: Scrounge for limited resources and balance a finite inventory as you decide what to bring and what to leave behind.
- Choose to Investigate Further: Explore your surroundings more deeply and solve optional cases and puzzles to uncover secrets, upgrades, and lore.
- A Twisted Lovecraftian Tale: Experience a captivating and morally gray story of personal loss, woven through the Lovecraftian mythos of occultism and incomprehensible creatures
ABOUT FROGWARES
Founded in 2000, Frogwares is an independent game development studio based in Ukraine and Ireland. We are behind the Sherlock Holmes series and a Lovecraftian detective-horror game series, The Sinking City. Thanks to the work of our talented team of artists and programmers, our games are available for all major platforms, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
