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Andy Chalk

The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower'

The Sinking City 2 screenshot.

Frogwares announced The Sinking City 2 in 2024 with a bizarre teaser billing an overt shift to survival horror and a 2025 release target. Today, however, the studio said it needs more time, and has thus pushed the game's release into 2026.

The reason for the delay is twofold: First and foremost, Frogwares is a Ukrainian studio, and Ukraine is still fighting off the Russian invasion that began in 2014 and exploded into full-scale war in 2022.

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