Frogwares, the developers of the Sherlock Holmes video game series, have revealed they are working on an open-world investigation game based on the Cthulhu Mythos called The Sinking City.
Below is the brief overview provided to us from Frogwares..
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”
The Sinking City is a game of investigation genre taking place in a fictional open world inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
The player incarnates a private investigator in 1920s, who finds himself in a city of New England, Oakmont Massachusetts. It’s currently suffering from extensive waterflood, and its cause is clearly supernatural. The city trembles on the brink of madness.
No platforms or release date has been announced at this time.