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The sinking city has returned to Steam, but Ukrainian studio Frogwares is urging people not to buy it due to an ongoing legal dispute with publisher Nacon.
“Frogwares has not created the version of @thesinkingcity that is on sale today on @Steam,” the developer tweeted. “We do not recommend purchasing this version.”
HP-influenced detective game Lovecraft returned to Steam on February 27, at a steep 60% discount. According to Steam user LizDeLaFuentez, the available version was not an updated version of the game, but rather a reload of the version that was available on Steam for a short time in January of this year.
“This is an old version of the game. There is no DLC, they are not saved in the cloud, there are no achievements, ”they wrote. “Frogwares has not released any news on this release so I doubt they will ever see the money so I recommend staying away from this until they do.”
Frogwares has not created the version of @CityThinking which is for sale today in @Steam. We do not recommend purchasing this version. More news soon.
– Frogwares (@Frogwares) February 26, 2021
The legal dispute between developer Frogwares and French publisher Nacon has continued since the game was removed from digital stores in August 2020.
The game was originally withdrawn due to Frogwares terminating its contract after accusing the publisher of withholding royalties, but it returned to stores in January 2021.
A statement from Nacon in January confirmed that the game would return to all digital stores in the future after the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that Frogwares had “terminated the contract in a ‘manifestly illegal’ manner” by removing the game.
Frogwares are also being developed Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, a Sherlock Holmes origin story that serves as a prequel to his previous Sherlock Holmes games. Currently, Frogwares is set to self-edit the title.
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