Following claims that the publisher pirated the game.

Original: Investigative horror adventure game The Sinking City has been silently removed from 'several platforms', including Steam, the Epic Games Store and Gog.com. The Sinking City launched on PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive but had pages on both Steam and Gog.com in anticipation of its release on those respective platforms, after its one. It seems The Sinking City which is currently available on Steam is an old build of the game. One Steam review claims that it's not the same version released by Frogwares in January, and is lacking DLC, cloud saves and achievements.

Lots of people pirate games. Pirates, gamers, and I probably shouldn’t have made a list. The point is that the one entity you generally would not expect to be selling a pirated game is the game’s own publisher. But this is 2021 where up is down, left is right, and video game publishers sell pirated copies of the games they publish.

The ongoing legal fight between French developer Frogwares and publisher Nacon came to yet another hurdle with the Steam version of The Sinking City delisted yet again. The two entities have been fighting it out in the courtroom over allegations that Nacon violated Frogwares’ IP, attempted to steal their intellectual properties, and had missed payments. Back in August Frogwares forcibly removed The Sinking City from digital stores, offering mountains of evidence to the public to justify its actions.

In late February The Sinking City mysteriously reappeared on Steam once again under Nacon. Upon discovery, Frogwares grabbed a copy of the game and decompiled it to find that Nacon had allegedly pirated a copy, removed watermarks, and reuploaded it to Steam themselves. Once again they provided a mountain of evidence to the public.

The Sinking City On Steam

The case of Frogwares v. Nacon continues, and we’re going to guess the DMCA won’t exactly extinguish the flames between the two parties.

The Sinking City Xbox Store

In late February The Sinking City mysteriously reappeared on Steam once again under Nacon. Upon discovery, Frogwares grabbed a copy of the game and decompiled it to find that Nacon had allegedly pirated a copy, removed watermarks, and reuploaded it to Steam themselves. Once again they provided a mountain of evidence to the public.