PS5 Lovecraftian Sequel The Sinking City 2 Plots Crowd Funding Campaign

Ukrainian developer FrogWares has used crowd funding to powerful effect once already, and it’s turning to the platform again with The Sinking City 2.

As was the case with remake Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, it’ll be using the funds to help get its sequel finished, and it looks like it’ll have a big development update to share later this week.

The Kickstarter will launch on 6th March, and the studio’s promising it’s “going to be huge, with awesome pledge rewards, special community events, and plenty of surprises along the way”.

One thing it has confirmed is that there’ll be physical Limited Edition and Collector’s Edition versions of the game, and they’ll be Kickstarter exclusives, it seems.

The original The Sinking City was a fascinating game – a kind of open world detective game with strong Cthulhu influences. “There's a great and engaging detective game buried here,” we wrote in our review of the PS5 port.

If you didn’t know, the first game famously found itself embroiled in a very messy legal spat with publisher Nacon. The Ukrainian studio ultimately won the case, and was granted sole publishing rights to the release across all platforms. Needless to say, it’s self-publishing the sequel.