While The Sinking City was a game focused primarily on investigations and detective work, The Sinking City 2, which is being built on Unreal Engine 5, is going to be a full-fledged survival horror game, which should be more appropriate for the Lovecraftian setting.

The sequel will feature a new protagonist in a new setting, the semi-open world city of Arkham. The setting, however, is once again going to be a 1920s American city that’s been flooded, while the gameplay will be much more focused on combat, finding and managing resources, solving puzzles, and exploration.

Frogwares has also confirmed that it will be seeking partial crowdfunding for The Sinking City 2 through Kickstarter (similar to Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, its previous title), with the studio still dealing with the ongoing war in Ukraine, where it is based.

“At this stage, we have learned and adapted to our reality but the ongoing war adds an ominous layer of uncertainty, and the additional funds will help us deal with potential disruptions on top of helping fund various extra features we would love to implement,” said Wael Amr, CEO of Frogwares. “Our previous game, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, was fully developed and released during the war. Through Kickstarter and our supporters, we built ourselves a safety net that saved us more than once. From power cuts as our electrical infrastructure was targeted for months to the need for team members to relocate at very short notice, this financial safety net proved invaluable to us. So we need to do the same now with The Sinking City 2 as this game is vastly bigger and more complex.”

The Sinking City 2 is due out in 2025 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is the next entry in the Sherlock Holmes video game series, and this is a pretty big one- the first entry in the series that is made exclusively for the current generation spec, and one that looks to shake things up significantly. The Devil’s Daughter seems to offer a full open world-esque mechanic to enable free player exploration, and it also seems to feature far younger looking versions of Holmes and Watson than previous games did.

If you so far have not been sold on these changes, you are in luck- these 15 minutes of gameplay footage for the title, just uploaded today, will probably do a better job of selling you on the game than anything else so far has. You can check out the video below, and see for yourself what you think.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter launches on May 27 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.

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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter has just gotten a brand new trailer that gives us our first long look at what this game is actually going to be about. This is just the latest in what is now becoming a rather long running series with the latest being Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. Perhaps not coincidently, that particular game is being offered for free on Games with Gold for the Xbox One on the same day when this new trailer surfaced.

This new trailer for The Devil’s Daughter seems to give us a much darker look at the world of Sherlock Holmes. We see the intrepid detective spotting a pretty young girl out on the street and after noticing there seems to be something a bit off about the girl he has a flash of something that seems quite occult. Once the vision has subsided, he notices that the girl is suddenly gone and also appears to know that something is very, very wrong with her being gone.

He chases the girl around the corner, only to see her being led off by someone who is rather sinister. The girl and sinister figure get away and we’re left to wonder just what in the world is going on here. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is due to launch on the Xbox One, PC and PS4 on May 27. Check out the video below to see what you can expect.

If you are unaware, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a long running series by Frogwares, featuring famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John H. Watson. It’s also an extremely underrated series. Just play one of the recent games such as Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments to get the an idea about the potential of this series.

GamingBolt recently got in touch with Wael Amr, CEO of Frogwares Game Development Studio to check how the development of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is shaping up. Wael told us that they have done a number of engine upgrades which includes support for physical based rendering.

“[We have made improvements] mostly for the character controller, the physically based rendering and dynamic features. Also [we made] some deep architectural changes as the size of the game is very big now.”

We also asked whether there are any plans to release a DirectX 12 version of the game given that API is already out for a while, and more developers are using it. However Wael says that the development team currently has no such consideration as they are not sure whether it will impact the rendering tech of the game. “Not at the moment, we are not sure it will have a significant impact on the game’s rendering,” he says.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter launches May 27.

May is looking to be a rather busy month for game releases this year- we’ve already got Mirror’s Edge Catalyst and Homefront: The Revolution slated to launch in that month, and now, we have another title joining the foray: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, the newest installment in the Sherlock Holmes series, which has given us some rather incredible games like The Testament of Sherlock Holmes and Crimes and Punishments: Sherlock Holmes, will be launching on May 27.

The new game will be offering players an open world, freeing them to visit any part of the world at any time, even during investigations, and it will feature gorgeous graphics, what with it being the first game in the series that isn’t launching for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. As always, we’ve also been promised a thrilling new story, one that will be unprecedented in the annals of all of the Holmes mythos- considering just how great some of the stories in these Sherlock Holmes games have been in the past, I’m not disinclined to believe them.

Crimes and Punishments: Sherlock Holmes is the newest Sherlock Holmes game, coming out later this year, and a sequel to the excellent Testament of Sherlock Holmes. We’ve already seen a lot of this new game, which promises to be the biggest departure in the series yet, moving away from the developers’ in house engine to Unreal as it does, and promising a plethora of new features. The trailers have each gone in depth with one or the other facet of this upcoming title; this newest one that we get takes us through the locations that Holmes will be investigating in this new game, and it almost feels like a guided tour of Victorian England.

Crimes and Punishments: Sherlock Holmes will follow the master sleuth’s investigations across six cases as he attempts to resolve all of them. The game hits PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on September 30. Stay tuned for more.

Crimes and Punishments: Sherlock Holmes, the sequel to the incredible Testament of Sherlock Holmes,has been announced for PlayStation 4. The title was previously announced for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

Crimes and Punishment: Sherlock Holmes is the first game to be made available for a next generation console. It is also a game of other firsts, as it is the first time that the developer Frogware has moved away from its in house engine in favor of Unreal Engine 3, which, it claims, enables a much richer, more immersive and detailed rendering of both the environments and characters. In addition to the visual changes, however, there are also new investigation techniques at the player’s disposal, a total of fourteen.

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes was pretty darn good at what it did. One might argue that it was the pinnacle of the series in its old format. It remains to be seen whether the quality can survive the transition to so much new stuff happening all at once, but given just how great the last game was, I have high hopes.