The Sinking City
- Developer
- Frogwares
- Publisher
- Bigben Interactive
- Released
- 27 June 2019
- Age rating
- PEGI N/A
- UK price
- £34.70
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Genres: shooter , puzzle , role playing rpg , adventure
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.
Best gaming PC for The Sinking City in 2026
Full buyers guide →Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for The Sinking City today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.
Budget
£7991080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
£1,2991440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
£1,7991440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
£3,4994K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
Official system requirements
These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Bigben Interactive on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit | Windows 11 Pro 64-bit |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-7700, 3.60GHz | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 3.7GHz / Intel Core i7-9700K, 3.60GHz |
| RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super |
| Storage | 50 GB | 50 GB |
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.
Can your PC run The Sinking City?
If your CPU is roughly equivalent to AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 3.7GHz / Intel Core i7-9700K, 3.60GHz and your GPU is at or above NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.