Frogwares The Sinking City Remastered Available Now

[GFreeman]

Explore the eldritch horrors, remastered in Unreal Engine 5 to offer the ultimate Lovecraftian experience. Free for existing owners. The Sinking City Remastered is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, fully rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 to deliver the ultimate Lovecraftian experience!

What's New in the Remastered Edition?

• Full visual overhaul with Unreal Engine 5 lighting and effects
• 4K textures and enhanced level of detail
• Photo Mode to capture your descent into madness
• Support for DLSS, FSR, and TSR upscaling
• And more!

Free for existing owners
The Sinking City Remastered is free for existing owners on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Here's what you need to know:

• On Steam, you can switch between both games in the option window that pops up after launching The Sinking City Remastered from your Steam library.
• On PS5, your game should be automatically updated to the remastered version.
• On Xbox Series X|S, you should now see The Sinking City Remastered in your library as a new product.

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[azrael]

At least it's free for existing customers. Wouldn't have thought a remaster would be necessary at this point, but then again there's Horizon Zero Dawn...

 

[Shihab]

Aren't they supposed to be working on a sequel?

 

[W4llBangdMyself]

Well I have the game on Epic but do not see the Remaster anywhere Guess I should have bought it on Steam...

 

[Shihab]

Well I have the game on Epic but do not see the Remaster anywhere Guess I should have bought it on Steam...

Have you tried running it?
It's not exactly a new SKU (I think), but an update to the already existing listing.

That said, does EGS' framework even games with multiple possible launch execs (which, I think, is the case here)? Their fw was far inferior to Valve's, last time I checked.

 

[loracle706]

World of games is becoming a joke, remastering a game that no one cares, sad times of remasters, remakes and other bullshit !!!

 

[Fishymachine]

Seriously? A less than 6 yer-old game is now Remastered?

 

[HeadRusch1]

Raising Revenue while learning the new UE5 tool, it's probably good business and it is free.........

 

[W4llBangdMyself]

Have you tried running it?
It's not exactly a new SKU (I think), but an update to the already existing listing.

That said, does EGS' framework even games with multiple possible launch execs (which, I think, is the case here)? Their fw was far inferior to Valve's, last time I checked.

Don't have it installed, tried downloading it, prompt says it's 19 GB, so I guess that is not the remaster, seems too small

 

[azrael]

Just got home and checked my Steam library. Got The Sinking City Remastered. However, what I have no longer got is the original version. Not necessarily happy about this. I know, gift horse and all that, but still...

 

[Klemc]

The "remaster" is inside of the original's as a sub-folder (that has sames directories tree inside btw, not renamed) :

IT'S like:

The Sinking City\The Sinking City Remastered\*

 

[W4llBangdMyself]

As per Frogwares support's quick response, the remastered version will be available for free for the owners of the original at a later date. I hope it does not take too long

 

[Shihab]

Don't have it installed, tried downloading it, prompt says it's 19 GB, so I guess that is not the remaster, seems too small

Yeah. The updated version is ~48GB. I'd reckon the "remaster" build alone is 30GB, plus/minus a few gigs.

The "remaster" is inside of the original's as a sub-folder (that has sames directories tree inside btw, not renamed) :

IT'S like:

The Sinking City\The Sinking City Remastered\*

It's amusing they did it this way. Steam does have a way of allowing the devs to host multiple builds and have only one installed at a time. They way the went about means everyone has to download two games regardless of which one they were going for.

If it we weren't talking about porting to a new engine and extensive upgrade of shaders, I would have called this lazy dev work. Dunno why they would go through all this effort, but stop short of wrapping things up the elegant (and efficient) way.