Lovecraftian survival horror game sequel The Sinking City 2 will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG in the first half of 2026, developer Frogwares announced.
While an official release window was not previously announced, Frogwares said it was aiming for a surprise launch 2025, and had even been hinting as much to fans. However, the team determined that it needed more time to finish the game on its own terms, citing the ongoing war in Ukraine and the significant genre shift of the sequel compared to their previous titles as reasons for the delay.
“Developing a game during a war isn’t something you can ever really prepare for, but something you need to keep adapting to,” Frogwares head of publishing Sergiy Oganesyan said in a press release. “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… These things all slowed us down regularly to the point where it just doesn’t make sense to try to rush what we have left to meet a date that we no longer feel is worth chasing. How Moscow’s tactics to terrorize civilians will change again as winter comes is anyone’s guess, so we’d rather be ready to adapt again, knowing we’re able to take our time.”
Frogwares lead game designer Alexander Gresko added, “Switching to survival horror for the first time has been a whole new kind of challenge for us in itself, too. We’ve been making investigation adventures for more than twenty years, but survival horror asks for a completely different kind of design thinking. Tension, pacing, combat, etc. We’ve always loved the genre as fans, but once you start building it yourself, you realize how much you still have to do. It’s exciting, but it definitely makes development slower.”
Oganesyan continued, “We don’t have an exact date set for 2026 yet, but we thought it was better to at least share what we do know. We’d rather be certain than announce something now only to move it again. Rest assured, we’re currently aiming for the first half of 2026, so it’s a matter of months, not years.”
Frogwares also shared 13 new screenshots showcasing the game’s setting, enemies, and atmosphere, as well as promised that it will be “showing a lot more gameplay over the next few months.”
View the screenshots at the gallery.
