Dated official history
Use the era chips to hide facts that do not belong to Reveal 2024-03, Demo 2026-06, or Launch 2026-08-18. Reveal covers the announcement, the Kickstarter physical SKUs, the delay post, and the UE5 interview language. Demo covers the shadow drop, Next Fest week, Calvin’s introduction, and patch notes 1. Launch covers the 18 August ship date, the three first-party consoles-and-PC stores, GOG, and the Steam requirement tables.
Frogwares also posted about The Sinking City Remastered — Charles Reed, Oakmont, Unreal Engine 5 — on the same Steam news hub. That is an adjacent product, not a TSC2 campaign. This page does not merge remaster facts into the sequel’s system requirements. The Kickstarter physical Limited and Collector boxes from March 2025 remain a different SKU matrix from the Standard / Deluxe / Premium packages on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox at launch.
Reveal in 2024, then a March 2025 Kickstarter for stretch goals and physical Limited/Collector editions. Those boxes are not the current Steam digital matrix. Official news later slipped the window from 2025 to H1 2026 and talked through Unreal Engine 5.
One-hour Steam demo with the August 18 announcement, then Steam Next Fest 15–22 June 2026. Introduces Calvin Rafferty. Patch notes 1 fixed crashes, a post-boat camera break, safe-puzzle evidence, and balance.
Ships 18 August 2026 on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series. Steam minimum is Windows 11, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1070 or RX 5700 8 GB, 70 GB SSD, 1080p30 low with TSR. Recommended: 32 GB, RTX 4070 Ti or RX 7900 XT 12 GB, 1440p60 medium with TSR.
Steam PC requirements
Minimum: Windows 11 x64, Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD RX 5700 with 8 GB VRAM, 70 GB SSD, targeting 1080p 30fps Low with TSR. Recommended: Windows 11 x64, Core i5-14600K or AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti or AMD RX 7900 XT with 12 GB VRAM, 70 GB SSD, targeting 1440p 60fps Medium with TSR.
Those rows are Steam’s published table, not a community guess. PlayStation and Xbox do not publish an equivalent PC-style grid on the captured storefronts. Steam also marks full controller support. Screen languages on Steam and PlayStation number 15 with English full audio; Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian are absent from that official list even though those Steam storefronts still show the English product name.
| Tier | OS | CPU | RAM | GPU | Storage | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Windows 11 x64 | Intel Core i7-8700K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X | 16 GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | AMD RX 5700, 8GB VRAM | 70 GB SSD | 1080p 30fps Low with TSR |
| Recommended | Windows 11 x64 | Core i5-14600K | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X | 32 GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | AMD RX7900XT, 12GB VRAM | 70 GB SSD | 1440p 60fps Medium with TSR |
Welcome To Arkham trailer
The date announcement reel is Welcome To Arkham (RtGiwsrN5cs). Chapter buttons still offer the other three official Frogwares IDs so you can jump to Overview, Grindmaws, or Launch without leaving the file. The facade on this route is bound to the Welcome media id. After launch the demo remains history: it taught the opening hour and shipped a camera fix, but it is not a separate SKU on the 18 August storefronts. Keep the demo in the 2026-06 chip, not in the launch price rail on this page.
Working first-party product URL is the Steam app page. thesinkingcity.com 301s to frogwares.com, which returned an anti-bot challenge at capture, so this site does not pretend a standalone marketing homepage is readable. Xbox’s captured HTML still used a Premium Edition pre-order slug even after launch; treat that as a storefront leftover, not a second date.
Screen languages and the June demo
Steam and PlayStation both list 15 screen languages with English full audio. Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian are absent from that official language list, even though those Steam storefronts still show the English product name The Sinking City 2. Japanese about text can add シンキング シティ 2 as a reading beside the English title; that string is an alias, not a replacement name. The game is single-player. Steam marks full controller support.
The one-hour Steam demo shadow-dropped with the 18 August date and then ran in Steam Next Fest from 15–22 June 2026. It introduces Calvin Rafferty. Patch notes 1 fixed crashes, a camera break after boarding the boat, updated safe-puzzle evidence, and adjusted balance. After 18 August 2026 the demo is not a separate SKU. For edition prices and DLC apps use Editions and Kits. For the survival loop the demo taught, use Survive Arkham.