The Sinking City 2 er blevet skubbet til 2026
Hvis du har gået og holdt vejret i håb om at kunne vende tilbage til The Sinking City senere i år med efterfølgeren fra den ukrainske udvikler Frogwares, har vi dårlige nyheder - for spillet er nu skubbet til 2026.
Årsagen til forsinkelsen er ganske enkel: Frogwares har brug for mere tid til at færdiggøre The Sinking City 2. Delvist fordi den igangværende krig med Rusland har haft en mærkbar indvirkning på udviklingsplanen. Det uddyber studiets head of publishing, Sergiy Oganesyan, i en officiel udtalelse.
"Developing a game during a war isn't something you can ever really prepare for, but something you need to keep adapting to. At one point, we were losing power for days as drones and missiles hit our power grid. When that tactic stopped working, it became mass drone swarms every other night, going from midnight until dawn. You work all day, then spend the sleepless night listening for explosions, and somehow still need to function the next morning... These things all slowed us down regularly to the point where it just doesn't make sense to try to rush what we have left to meet a date that we no longer feel is worth chasing. How Moscow's tactics to terrorize civilians will change again as winter comes is anyone's guess, so we'd rather be ready to adapt again, knowing we're able to take our time."
Studiet fortæller desuden, at overgangen til survival horror-genren i denne efterfølger har skabt ekstra arbejde. Lead game designer Alexander Gresko beskriver det som en "whole new kind of challenge for us" og fortsætter: "Survival horror asks for a completely different kind of design thinking. Tension, pacing, combat, etc. We've always loved the genre as fans, but once you start building it yourself, you realize how much you still have to do. It's exciting, but it definitely makes development slower."
Som det ser ud nu, sigter udviklerne efter at udgive The Sinking City 2 i første halvdel af 2026. Oganesyan tilføjer dog: "We'd rather be certain than announce something now only to move it again. Rest assured, we're currently aiming for the first half of 2026, so it's a matter of months, not years."
For at give fansene lidt at se frem til har Frogwares delt en række nye billeder fra spillet, som du kan se herunder. Når The Sinking City 2 endelig udkommer, bliver det til PC, PS5 og Xbox Series X/S.
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