New purchases of The Sinking City can still be made that are DRM-free for the PC on the Frogwares website, or through Origin, Gamesplanet, and the Nintendo Switch eShop. If true, Frogwares may have been left with no choice but to engage in this manner of scorched-earth tactic, obliterating anything that could be misappropriated by their former distributor. We have reached out to Microsoft about it, and hopefully, this will get fixed as soon as possible.'Īs reported previously, Frogwares claims that distributor Bigben/Nacon is acting in bad faith, owes money to Frogwares, is attempting to lay claim of ownership where there is none, and much more. Before FROGWARES took the game rights back the best version available was The Sinking City: Necronomicon Edition which only included 3 DLCs and which is the version available on PC. 9:03pm Frogwares is supporting the Origin version of this Buy it there, not here.

TheGamer reached out to the developer, who has responded by stating, 'We assume it was a technical error, as we did not request the removal of The Sinking City from its owners' libraries. The Deluxe Edition of the game available on PS5 is published by FROGWARES while the version available on last-gen and originally on Origin is published by NACON. The Sinking City > General Discussions > Topic Details.

This is most likely an unintended consequence of Frogwares trying to protect their intellectual property.

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