Frogwares used the Future Games Show to drop a one-hour demo of The Sinking City 2 on Steam — playable right now, for free — and announced the full game launches August 18.
The demo gives players a direct taste of how the sequel differs from the original. Rather than a sprawling open world, The Sinking City 2 opts for more focused levels with room to explore, landing closer to survival horror territory than the first game's budget open-world approach. One preview earlier this year described it as H. P. Lovecraft's Resident Evil, which is a pretty good pitch. A new trailer introduces Arkham — yes, the city that gave Batman's asylum its name — now flooded and navigable by motorboat, packed with Mythos monsters including zombies with bulging fleshy weak spots begging to be shot. There's also a sultry mermaid in the mix, which, given the Lovecraftian fish-human hybrid lore, makes a certain kind of horrible sense.
The original Sinking City was ambitious but stretched too thin across its open world, diluting the supernatural mystery at its core. The sequel appears to have taken that criticism seriously and pulled the scope back in.
August 18 puts The Sinking City 2 just ahead of September's horror lineup — Silent Hill: Townfall and vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker are both due that month. If you want to know whether Frogwares has actually fixed what held the first game back, the demo is already waiting on Steam.
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