GameInformer has shared a video, showing 15 minutes of new gameplay footage from Frogwares’ upcoming Loftcraftian game, The Sinking City. Naturally, we strongly suggest avoiding this video in case you want to experience this game for yourselves as it most likely contains spoilers about certain things.
The Sinking City is a story-rich, free investigation game set in a twisted H.P Lovecraft inspired universe in which players step into Oakmont, Massachusetts – a place suffering decay and rot from unprecedented supernatural floods that slowly envelope the city and the minds of its inhabitants.
In The Sinking City, players will assume the role of Charles W. Reed who is a private investigator in New England in the 1920s. Tortured by his past and otherworldly visions, he finds himself in Oakmont, Massachusetts, seeking salvation from the creeping insanity that afflicts him.
The game is currently scheduled for a June 27th release!
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Looks nice, too bad I cannot buy it until June 27, 2020.
Check out the link I just posted in reply to another person. The dev’ won’t even guarantee their game will be coming to any other store once the one-year timed exclusivity deal with Tencent Sweeney has expired.
Of course you’ll say that to make sure that people aren’t going to wait. Some will wait anyways but some people will be like ” oh sh*t whats the point might as well just buy it”.
They will release on steam unless epic will give them more money.
The game is currently scheduled for a June 27th release dont forget guys https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ba4192969032466b790f139ec601dabcf07dc57c6c1aa5489bf6922cda3cac7a.jpg
Is it an Epic Games Store exclusive then?
i think they said for 1 year or it’s exclusive forever it doesnt matter it’s only on the epic store and that’s a pirate copy for me
The sad part for me is that we are punishing a studio who is probably just trying to stay afloat.
Imagine not being sure if you can make payroll this month and then Epic just going ” here is money for a year but you stay for that year with us and get to fix the game for free and re release it on steam in better condition”.
Sounds like a great deal to me.
sounds like a bad idea becuase 1 you dont now if consumers are going to buy your games and two when you release it on store who is going to stop US from buying the game so that we can give it a sh*** score/ review and then ask for a refund ?
It doesn’t matter if your customers aren’t going to buy your game, you just got enough money to survive for another year, maybe more.
And, Nobody is stopping you from buying it, you can buy if from Epic, you are not excluded, nothing is stopping you but you. Or you can wait for Steams release. I am going to. But it’s true.
I remember a time when dev teams used to “stay afloat” only if they made valid products, so why does this have to change? Why dev teams have to stay afloat even if they produce garbage? What’s the point and where is the meritocracy in this?
Man, I don’t know. Satisfactory looks like a great game, too bad I’ll have to wait for Steam, but it will be better in a year since it’s still in Early access.
Also Phoenix Point. Looks like a solid game.
Metro was good too! Yet they all still took Epic money.
Well you think last metro was good, i’m not sure i want to continue the discussion. Anyway, none of those is a huge selling game, included metro, and if they are, and those publishers still decided to take epic’s bribing, even worse! They deserve even more hatred as they don’t even try and hide their greed.
I don’t believe those games are big sellers. But I do want to play them. And if the money helps them to make it better but I get it later. I can’t blame them.
Ok but know that in this way your money isn’t their first goal anymore, as they don’t rely on it that much anymore.
OK so isn’t that better? Wont that give the devs more opportunity to do something innovating and not be afraid that if it doesn’t work and people won’t buy it they are going to go under? Because at the moment everyone is following trends because games cost money and established ideas sell better then new concepts that might fail. By your logic if our money isn’t a priority anymore making a good and unique game becomes the priority.
No, if they deserve to go under they should go under that’s my point, the afraid thing doesn’t mean sh** they’re either capable or not capable of making videogames, if they are capable why should they be afraid, people will appreciate their title eventually. If they’re not capable, they just shouldn’t be making videogames, it’s very simple.
Well, what about studios that make great games and then have a few stinkers? Like Bioware at the moment. Bungie. I’m sure there is more. Should they go under too because they made one bad game?
Make? You mean MADE, i don’t recall neither bioware nor bungie making even decent games in many years now, so what are you on about? If they made one bad game they deserve to suffer that, and if it means going under what can you do, it’s life, and it surely doesn’t depend only on that game.
I quite liked Dragon Age and Mass Effect, I thought they were great games. Also while I never played HALO seriously, I do know it’s well loved franchise and generally were considered to be great games. Unless of course you don’t think those are great games.
And for someone like BiowAre the next game might just be what decides it’s future. I don’t see them recovering a third fall. MA:A and Anthem now this whole story about troubled development of Anthem is not painting them in a right way. Finally EA is known for shutting down studios that under perform and Bioware has been doing nothing but that.
I like Bioware so if it took them taking some hypothetical exclusive deal to allow them to keep afloat. Yeah can’t be mad they take it.
That’s why i said “for many years” i don’t like any of those IP but i can agree those are pretty important and big IPs, still not all games from those IPs are good, at least it’s what i heard, latest mass effect and dragon age game didn’t do that good, and same for halo, don’t be mad if you want, but i would definitely be mad if one of my favourite devs took bribing from epic to push some new ideas.
no one isnt stopping me ? lol is the game going to be on steam ? no is the game going to be on GOG no what about origins ? discord ? battle.net ? UBIsh**** ? if the game isnt on one of these stores then it’s DOA for me or i pirate it i’m leaning to pirate every game on the epic store and no one can stop me but the devs release the the game on a platform i use and i will buy your product simple as that https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8ba680392f7129707a0166d4656b1613d4e9d0c49f00a8c12a4f7631b36f42f4.jpg
Good deal for the dev/publisher, terrible deal for the consumer.
No argument from me. That’s a solid point against Epic and exclusives.
You’re quite correct. It’s to be a one-year timed exclusive for Epic Games Store with the dev’ refusing to give any guarantee of it subsequently coming to any other store,
steamcommunity(dot)com/games/750130/announcements/detail/1821050404983574362
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I havent pirated a game since i was a broke college student back in 2004. This game makes me so angry that i want to pirate just it and it alone. The nerves on these people i tell ya. I knew there was a slim chance of a GOG release. But in one full swoop i lost all ability to play this game. Fuq these guys and i hope they don’t sell one fuqing copy. Seed On Boys…
no need to feel guilty about pirating anything. they all deserve it.
My main concern about pirating is that you don’t know what type of maliciousness is hidden in these pirated Software. Funny, because it’s the same reason why I hate DRM. But this game and their devs have made me considered it once more cause this has gots to stop and it will just get worse and worse.
i don’t know about you but my gaming life is almost over so at this point i’ll just pirate whatever i feel like before i quit for good, it’s not like i’m missing or going to miss anything good. games we get these days are so awful that a boring, simplistic trash like dark souls is considered great.
Oh don’t get me started on Dark Souls, that Steaming pile of garbage. Such mediocrity held to high esteem really hurts to see. I understand what you mean though. I’m 36 now and I’m starting to care less and less to be honest.
There are various forums that discuss the safety of various releases. Don’t go for a release from an unknown source and you will be safe.
just dont download any torrents on your SSD that has windows installed and you should be good
i hate how some games look rather interesting at first glance with minor gameplay so you get all excited… but then increasingly somehow get worse and worse as more gameplay gets revealed. 🙁
That’s why they usually hide gameplay until as late as possible
I’ll give four middle finger to this scammer.. advertise on steam for so long and when close to release,they move to EGS…smh
Valve should put a stop to this. They are basically using steam as a advertising platform at this point. They knew for quite some time that they wouldn’t do steam. I’d say they knew the moment they put it up on Steam. Because it haven’t been up on Steam for very long. 2-3 months tops I believe.
Personally I think this should be deemed as false advertising. Just like we’ve all been concerned, games distribution platforms are more important than even brick and mortar since every single purchase is DRM-locked behind the reliability of that store operating correctly. These little “stores are no big deal” switcharoos from the publishers’ perspectives are blatant bait and switch imo – and only benefits them.
Until 3rd party games are completely free of ALL store reliance, I will hate on every one of them: steam, epic, uwp, doesnt matter. It’s like Walmart employees needing to be in my house when I use something I bought from their store. It’s weird and invasive. When it was just steam then it was not a big deal, though still worried me because of where we are now. And now as we predicted everyone wants to lock us down with their dominating stores on OUR systems.
not impressed.
It’s the same universe.
In the past 34 years I have pirated Crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 (FU EA!). Now playing a pirated copy of Operencia – The Stolen Sun. The Sinking City, another Epic exclusive, will be my next pirated game.
Epic, make piracy great again.
Looks nice. Let’s hope it doesn’t get too boring after 15 minutes.