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Frogwares Pushes ‘The Sinking City 2’ to 2026 Release
Frogwares has announced that The Sinking City 2, their upcoming Lovecraftian survival horror game, will unfortunately be shifting its release window to the first half of 2026. While no official release date had been previously announced, the team had initially been aiming for a potential surprise 2025 launch. However, with the ongoing war in Ukraine and the significant genre shift the studio is undertaking with The Sinking City 2, the developer has decided that more time is needed to finish the game on their own terms.
“Developing a game during a war isn’t something you can ever really prepare for, but something you need to keep adapting to,” says Sergiy Oganesyan, Head of Publishing at Frogwares.
The studio also noted that developing a fully fledged survival horror game for the first time brings its own set of new learning curves.
“Switching to Survival Horror for the first time has been a whole new kind of challenge for us in itself, too,” says Lead Game Designer Alexander Gresko. “We’ve been making investigation adventures for more than twenty years, but survival horror asks for a completely different kind of design thinking. Tension, pacing, combat, etc. We’ve always loved the genre as fans, but once you start building it yourself, you realize how much you still have to do. It’s exciting, but it definitely makes development slower.”
However, the team has made progress, and has shared 13 new screenshots from The Sinking City 2. In addition, the team has also said they will be sharing a lot more from the game as it enters the final stages of production.
“Alongside the 13 new screenshots shared today, we’ll also be showing a lot more gameplay over the next few months to let everyone see how development is going,” says Anna Bieniek, Senior Social Media Manager. “The Sinking City 2 is the first time we’ve done big, private beta tests with our community so early in the development process, and their feedback has been instrumental in shaping the game. Because of this, we’ve actually been a lot less stressed about showing stuff publicly to try to gauge reception. But we’re keen to now start showing more people what we’ve been working away on all this time.”
The Sinking City 2 is currently in development for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
If you haven’t gotten your fill of Backrooms games yet after the success of the Kane Parsons film, Cortez Productions and Perp Games are here to fix that, launching The Backrooms: Lost Tape today on PlayStation 5. Originally released on Steam back in 2022, The Backrooms: Lost Tape ushers you back, quite literally, into the movie theatre.
Separated into two chapters (tapes), you’ll first play as an usher, Josh, who accidentally falls into the Backrooms. As you explore, you will be desperately trying to unravel the mysteries of the intertwined, sprawling yellow rooms to find any means of escape. Each empty space may not be as empty as it seems… malevolent entities stand in your way of freedom.
With the second tape, in an intense mission to find out what happened to Josh, more of the haunting story starts to unfold. Take a deeper dive into the unsettling and eerie world as Nikolas, as this chapter introduces its own unique challenges. Will Nikolas ever discover its secrets and find out what happened to Josh?
The PlayStation 5 release of The Backrooms: Lost Tape coincides with a major update for the Steam version, which has seen the game upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.6. That also entails updated visuals, full controller support, and various bug fixes.
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