Developer Frogwares has finally announced a release date for The Sinking City 2.

The Sinking City 2 is launching across Windows PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 on August 18th.

To celebrate the new release date, an hour-long playable demo is now available on Steam. The new demo will introduce the new protagonist, Calvin, as well as the flooded and Eldritch monster-infested city of Arkham. 

“Making games is already chaotic and unpredictable, so having a war going on at the same time adds a layer of immense chaos,” said Frogwares head of publishing Sergiy Oganesyan in a press release. “We were forced to constantly adapt and change our plans. So many times we had to rethink and adjust how we were going to get things done. And often just as we’d finally adapted and got into the new flow of things, something else would be waiting around the corner to throw us into disarray. Rinse and repeat.”

Here’s a rundown on the previously announced game, plus a new trailer:

The Sinking City 2 is set in a Lovecraftian vision of 1920s America, in the infamous city of Arkham. A supernatural flood has driven out all but the most deranged residents, leaving decay and eldritch horrors that roam the streets. Step into the role of Calvin Rafferty, an occult adventurer whose cavalier actions have led to devastating consequences. After a dreaming ritual goes wrong, his girlfriend, Faye, is left trapped in a mysterious sleep. Now Calvin must navigate the drowned streets of a derelict city in a desperate attempt to bring her back. On his quest, he’ll come face to face with a plague of otherworldly creatures, the Slither, who possess and twist the dead into lethal, walking puppets.

Features

• Fight to Survive: Use an arsenal of 1920s-inspired firearms and melee weapons to fight against Eldritch abominations.
• Explore The Decaying City of Arkham: A world of rotting mansions, flooded markets, and abandoned hospitals that you’ll explore by foot and by boat. 
• Find and Use What You Can: Scrounge for limited resources and balance a finite inventory as you decide what to bring and what to leave behind.
• Choose to Investigate Further: Explore your surroundings more deeply and solve optional cases and puzzles to uncover secrets, upgrades, and lore.
• A Twisted Lovecraftian Tale: Experience a captivating and morally gray story of personal loss, woven through the Lovecraftian mythos of cults, rituals, and incomprehensible creatures.