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
1080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
1440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
1440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
4K · 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.