STiFU 732 Posted November 26, 2020 Report Share Posted November 26, 2020 I know a lot of people here like lovecraftian horror, so you probably have heard about the game "The Sinking City". I had it on my radar for quite some time, but I recently learned that it had been removed from the Steam-store and I only now found out why. There was a statement by the dev studio Frogwares describing how their publisher BigBen/Nacon basically tried to rob them of their interlectual property and owes the studio more than 1 million € in royalties and also a couple of months of contract payments for development milestones. This in the end lead to Frogwares having to pull the game from quite a few major stores. This story shows once again how publishers can be utter capitalist evil... I usually wait until games are cheaper, but after reading this, I want to show my support, so I am going to get a DRM-free copy from Gamesplanet now. I am also really curious for this game, so I am happy to pay the retail price. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HMart 319 Posted November 26, 2020 Report Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) That company seems to be the target some fishy publishers, I remember something similar happening with some of their Sherlock Games, they removed a few from most stores because of some legal reason but later they returned. I think the same will happen to this game, they will not let, I assume years of work, go down the drain like that, specially when they have the game done and full control over the IP. Edited November 26, 2020 by HMart Quote Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 732 Posted November 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2020 It's very likely the same publisher that caused them problems, as "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter" was also published by BigBen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
revelator 262 Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 Game is quite good though a bit of an offshot lovecraftian wise, cthylla ?!? instead of cthulhu so his daughter ( damn his sexlive must be scarier than the actual horror stories about him xD ). Game is mostly detective work though some areas can be dangerous but nothing to serious. Compared with the old dark corners its easy mode, but that one was plagued by so many bugs that it did not matter how good you were. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 732 Posted November 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 5 hours ago, revelator said: Compared with the old dark corners its easy mode, but that one was plagued by so many bugs that it did not matter how good you were. Still loved "Call of Cthulhu", 'though. So it seems, the sinking city is gonna be perfect for me. Thanks for the brief review. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
revelator 262 Posted November 28, 2020 Report Share Posted November 28, 2020 Amazing game to bad it newer got the love it deserved my local copy has a huge amount of bugs fixed, but i can only get so far without the source code. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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