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Opening walkthrough, survival basics, combat, saving, maps, exploration, and resource management.

Every verified safe code, password, clue location, and Fish Market symbol combination.

Fuse, Trident, printing press, ventilation, hospital, Fish Market, and portal solutions.

The released game has one fixed main ending rather than a menu of alternate endings. Ex Oblivione adds optional documents that deepen the connection to the wider Sinking City mythos, but those documents do not replace the final scene or unlock a separate true ending.

The Sinking City 2 released on August 18, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Older announcements that show a 2025 window are outdated; the current Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox product pages identify the released game.

Frogwares released a Steam demo in June 2026 ahead of the full game. Because demo listings can be removed or changed after launch, the only reliable current check is the official Steam product page; no separate PS5 or Xbox demo is confirmed in the supplied official listings.

No official physical edition is listed in the sources checked on August 24, 2026. The verified Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox pages sell digital editions, so a PS5 or Xbox disc should be treated as unannounced unless Frogwares or a retailer later publishes a specific physical SKU.

The official US PlayStation listing shows $49.99 for Standard, $54.99 for Deluxe, and $59.99 for Premium. Regional prices and sales vary, so use these as US list prices and confirm the final amount on your platform's store.

Premium includes The Sinking City 2, the Arkham Field Kit, and The Holloway Manor. The Field Kit supplies three outfits, three Dream Essence, and a resource pack; Holloway Manor is a separate haunted-mansion story mission.

The Sinking City 2 is available as a native PS5 single-player game. Sony lists Remote Play, nine accessibility features, controller vibration, and DualSense trigger-effect support, with Standard, Deluxe, and Premium editions.

The Steam version is a Windows single-player release with 23 achievements, Steam Cloud, trading cards, and Family Sharing. The official requirements call for Windows 11 x64, DirectX 12, an SSD, and 70 GB of available storage.

The Sinking City 2 is available for Xbox Series X|S and is marked as optimized for the current Xbox consoles. No Xbox One version is listed, so make sure the product title includes The Sinking City 2 rather than the 2019 original.

Critical reception is generally favorable. Metacritic's checked PC page shows a 75 metascore from 16 reviews, while reviews most often praise Arkham's atmosphere, puzzle-rich exploration, and focused survival-horror design; recurring criticism targets uneven combat, enemy repetition, and the reduced detective/open-world scope.

Calvin Rafferty enters a flooded 1920s Arkham after an occult ritual traps his partner Faye Bennett in the Dreamlands and hostile forces take her body. His attempt to recover her becomes entangled with the source of the flood and the eldritch powers consuming the city.

No: it is a sequel in franchise and mythology, but not a direct continuation with the same protagonist, city, or central case. The Sinking City 2 follows Calvin Rafferty and Faye Bennett in Arkham, so newcomers can follow the main story without finishing Charles Reed's Oakmont investigation.

The central characters are Calvin Rafferty, the playable occult adventurer, and Faye Bennett, his partner whose failed Dreamlands ritual drives the rescue story. Official store copy also names major threats such as the corpse-animating Slither and the Deep Ones.

The Sinking City 2 is not a traditional open-world game. It progresses through a sequence of large, interconnected locations with locked routes, shortcuts, optional rooms, limited boating sections, and backtracking, but it does not let you freely roam one continuous city like the first game.

The PC version requires Windows 11 x64, DirectX 12, an SSD, and 70 GB free. Minimum targets 1080p at 30 fps on Low with 16 GB RAM and a GTX 1070 or RX 5700; recommended targets 1440p at 60 fps on Balanced with 32 GB RAM and an RTX 4070 Ti or RX 7900 XT.

The Sinking City 2 is a single-player third-person survival-horror game. Its core loop is to explore interconnected areas, clear rooms, read clues, solve locks, manage a small inventory, conserve ammunition, unlock shortcuts, improve weapons and Talents, and retreat to Safe Rooms when a fight costs too much.

The site's featured video is Frogwares' official Welcome to Arkham release-date trailer. For additional footage, use the official Frogwares YouTube channel and the PlayStation game page, which embeds the extended gameplay and pre-order trailers.