The Sinking City 2 Had Been Targeting a Surprise PS5 Release, Delayed Due to War in Ukraine
Will surface in 2026
Frogwares was hoping to release sequel The Sinking City 2 as a surprise in late 2025, but itâs delayed the game into 2026 due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Sergiy Oganesyan, the studioâs head of publishing, explained:
âDeveloping a game during a war isnât something you can ever really prepare for, but something you need to keep adapting to. At one point, we were losing power for days as drones and missiles hit our power grid. When that tactic stopped working, it became mass drone swarms every other night, going from midnight until dawn. You work all day, then spend the sleepless night listening for explosions, and somehow still need to function the next morning.â
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In addition to the perilous situation surrounding its country, the Sherlock Holmes dev is also challenging itself with a dramatic genre shift into full survival horror.
âWeâve been making investigation adventures for more than twenty years, but survival horror asks for a completely different kind of design thinking,â lead game designer Alexander Gresko pointed out.
âTension, pacing, combat, etc. Weâve always loved the genre as fans, but once you start building it yourself, you realize how much you still have to do. Itâs exciting, but it definitely makes development slower.â
While the studio hasnât nailed down an exact release date in 2026 just yet, it expects the title deploy within the first half of the year.
In order to ease the wait, itâs released a batch of new screenshots embedded within this article to demonstrate its progress. Honestly, weâre really impressed with how this one is coming together.
Of course, for those of you who didnât play the original The Sinking City, this is a 1920s-inspired survival horror with a Lovecraftian twist.
The press release teases: âExperience a morally grey and captivating story focused on personal loss and woven around the Lovecraftian mythos of cults, rituals, and incomprehensible creatures.â
Weâre looking forward to this and would urge Frogwares to take its time as much as possible. Thereâs obviously no shortage of games to play right now, so a 2026 release date makes more sense to us at this stage.
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. Heâs an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
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