The Sinking City 2 Suffers Last Minute Delay, Now Aiming For The First Half Of 2026

Back in March 2024, developer Frogwares announced The Sinking City 2 for Xbox Series X|S, with plans to release its upcoming Lovecraftian adventure in 2025. Until now, the team had been planning to surprise launch the game towards the end of the year, but that’s no longer possible – so the studio has decided to delay the game until 2026.

In a new press release shared with Pure Xbox, Frogwares attributes the game’s delay to both a “significant genre shift” into survival horror, and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Here’s how the team describes that genre shift, alongside a bit more details on its plans for The Sinking City 2 next year:

“Switching to survival horror for the first time has been a whole new kind of challenge for us in itself, too. We’ve been making investigation adventures for more than twenty years, but 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.

We don’t have an exact date set for 2026 yet, but we thought it was better to at least share what we do know. 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.”

As a little bonus, the team has released a bunch of fresh screenshots today as part of its delay announcement – and we’re going to pick a few of those out and share them with you down below. You can also expect lots of new footage for The Sinking City 2 “over the next few months”, and we’ll link to this year’s gameplay reveal underneath these new screenshots as well.