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The Sinking City (Video Game)

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The Sinking City (Video Game)	comment	The Sinking City is an Investigation Action-Adventure game developed by Frogwares, best known as the developers of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure Game series, and first released in June 2019. The game is set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft.You take on the role of Charles W. Reed, an investigator in the 1920s United States. As soon as you arrive in Oakmont, Massachusetts, you are led to investigate a mysterious flood inundating the city, in the hopes of shedding light on the darkness that has seized the place and corrupted the minds of the inhabitants - and yours...Frogwares would end up in a prolonged legal dispute over game with its erstwhile publisher Bigben Interactive (later known as Nacon) especially over the game's 2021 release on Steam, which Frogwares denounced as a "hacked" version that was put together by Nacon without their consent in an attempt to steal the rights to the game from underneath them. Frogware eventually issued a DMCA complaint to Valve, taking the Steam version down.Then, in January 2024, Frogware announced that their legal dispute with Nacon had finally been resolved, allowing them to re-publish the game on Steam and GOG, in an Updated Re-release version. Along with the re-release, Frogwares also announced a new DLC for the game, called Merciful Madness.On March 2024, it was announced that there would be a standalone sequel, The Sinking City 2, which would be set in Arkham in the 1920s. It will be released in 2025. A Kickstarter campaign is launched to secure the funding for the game's production.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_12eee2cf	comment	Heal It with Booze: Both the First-Aid Kits and Antipsychotics are made using alcohol and coiled springs, the latter of which presumably act as the basis for the syringe you actually use to administer the items.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_15264ac9	type	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_15264ac9	comment	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: A big highlight of this game is that depending on the difficulty, there is little to no handholding when it comes to finding mission objectives. They are not automatically marked on your map; you must manually add markers to your map using clues and evidence obtained from investigating areas, questioning people, and combing through records and archives. In other words, the game makes you think like the detective you're playing as.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: The finale brings you back to the boat you started your journey on.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Esoteric Order of Dagon operates outside the law. Depending on your choices, you can help them instead of revealing their corrupt dealings.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_18e7aa01	type	Practical Currency
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_18e7aa01	comment	Practical Currency: With no way to reach the mainland, and the wylebeasts growing in number, bullets are the only accepted tender within Oakmont. It's mentioned that alcohol and cigarettes are also used as currency, but Reed never trades in them (likely because bullets are way more useful to him).
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: The game has three: In the No Choice ending, Reed escapes Oakmont with the Seal in hopes of breaking the cycle. However, a few years later, van der Berg tracks him down in Boston and floods the city. Maybe. It's unclear if that last part really happens or is a hallucination. In the Sacrifice ending, Reed commits suicide to restart the cycle and buy humanity a few more centuries. However, it's implied it's for nothing, as van der Berg is seen waiting for another boat to arrive at Oakmont, presumably bringing another Chosen to finish the job. In the Annihilation ending, Reed accepts his role as Chosen and open Cythgonaars, unleashing Cthylla. She promptly kills/absorbs him and heads for the surface, heralding the doom of mankind.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Every Oakmont native has pretty much accepted that they're living in a Cosmic Horror Story, and are less perturbed by the strange dreams and hallucinations and more concerned about the fact that there's a distinct possibility that an Innsmouther could be living next door. Newcomers such as Reed do not have such luxury.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_20e2a53b	type	Notice This
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_20e2a53b	comment	Notice This: Supply stashes nearby will be highlighted when using your scan ability.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Bullsquid-like wylebeasts are revealed to be people who ate human flesh after the Flood (in most cases presumably out of desperation), causing them to crave it more and more and eventually transform into monsters. The investigation in which you learn this involves an insane chef at an elite restaurant who served human flesh to his unsuspecting customers, transforming them into monsters living in the restaurant's basement which he continues to feed with human meat.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Oakmont is littered with Blue US Postal Service mailboxes— however, the game takes place in the 1920s, and that design wasn't introduced until 1971. Averted by the electric fans, which although modern looking, were actually invented in 1882.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: The giant tentacle that attacked Charles looks exactly like the one in The Mist.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Many to the wider Cthulhu Mythos. Reed stays at The Devil's Reef Inn. A statue of Cthulhu. The hairy, apelike appearance of the Throgmorton family calls to mind the Martense family from The Lurking Fear, although as a whole they're actually based on the Jermyn family from Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family. This is especially notably by how they claim to be tied to "foreign royalty". Flooded stores in Oakmont include "Whatley's Household Chemistry", Dombrowski Real Estate, and "West M.D." You can find hidden brain cylinders, presumably left by the Mi-Go, containing the brains of figures from Lovecraft's works such as Wilbur Whately, Richard Pickman, and Ephraim Waite. In the Oakmont Aslyum, you can find a motivational poster of a mountain bearing the words "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain"; however, the word "Truth" is crossed out in red, and "Madness" is written in its place. One of the hidden collectibles in the game is "Deep One Gold", calling back to Shadow over Innsmouth, where Marsh returns with treasure from the Polynesian civilization which first introduced him to the deep ones. Several references can be found on the map. C. Smith Avenue is a reference to Clark Ashton Smith, who was a close friend of Lovecrafts. Yellow King Avenue is clearly a reference to Hastur, an Eldritch Abomination he included briefly in a few stories, chief among them The King in Yellow. Marsh avenue is named after Obed Marsh, the man who started Innsmouth's worship to Dagon. Alhazred St. is located in Reed Heights, named for Abdul Alhazred, author of the Necronomicon. Warren Road may borrow its name from Harley Warren, the unfortunate soul from The Statement of Randolph Carter. Kingsport St. runs near the asylum, named for a town in Lovecraft's Arkham County. Just south of it is Providence Avenue; Providence, Rhode Island was Lovecraft's hometown. Whisper St. may be named for The Whisperer in the Darkness. You can find a note in Billy's base mentioning some coordinates. These are the coordinates of R'lyeh.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: The ending to "Through the Looking Glass" has Reed choose between a grieving mother and the fact her plan to resurrect her son is batshit insane. It will return him in the body of a mummified seven year old. If you thwart it, Reed is forced to kill her despite her being a victim in all of this.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2ab73660	type	Beast Man
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2ab73660	comment	Beast Man: The Throgmorton family have distinctly gorilla-like features and physical prowess, which Mr. Throgmorton claims is due to becoming related to some "royal family" a few generations ago. The Innsmouthers have a very obviously piscine look, with scaly skin, multiple rows of fish-like fangs, inhuman eyes, and a generally piscine cast to their features. By extension, there's also the Blackwood family, who are related to the Marsh family of Innsmouth and have been taking in refugees after that incident with the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the FBI some time ago. They share the same piscine deformities as the Innsmouthers as a result.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2af161b1	type	Take That, Us
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2af161b1	comment	Take That Us: One of the ad posters you can find around Oakmont is for a new Sherlock Holmes book, "Mystery of the Creepy Watson", a reference to the developer's previous Sherlock Holmes games and the infamous off-screen teleportation that Dr. Watson does to keep up with the player.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2b88a383	type	Grave Humor
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2b88a383	comment	Several examples of Grave Humor in the game are references— an urn in the Crematorium reads Fk it, Dude, let's go bowling.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Throgmorton considers the Innsmouthers to be criminals and evildoers, so he persecutes them horribly while using his influence to make the city as hostile to them as possible. As such, the Innsmouthers have to turn to crime as well as the Esoteric Order of Dagon to survive.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3273ebb9	type	Cut-and-Paste Environments
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3273ebb9	comment	Cut and Paste Environments: Almost all of the indoor locations are repeat copies of the same handful of building templates.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: A contained one with the Flood that has turned Oakmont into a post-apocalypse hellhole with most of the city underwater, wrecks, fires, and all contact with the mainland cut off. That's before we get into the fact that it is now infested with monsters and not even getting to the rest of the world is about to be destroyed due to events inside it.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: Throughout the story, Reed is investigating a deep-sea expedition, where Professor Dough ended up stealing a strange mechanism that is needed to awaken Cthylla.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The entire town won't bring up Innsmouth unless really pushed. It makes sense in context since in the book the entire town was wiped out thanks to Robert Olmstead.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Upon death, wylebeasts will dissolve and melt into puddles of black goo after a moment or so.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_40b1b989	type	Resources Management Gameplay
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_40b1b989	comment	Resources Management Gameplay: Downplayed; on the one hand, the game has what appears to be a very tight economy in which bullets are your currency as well as your ammo, combat often eats up more resources than you gain from looting a cleared area (encouraging stealth), and you generally have access to a fairly limited amount of overall resources. However, all this is thrown out the window by the fact that loot containers respawn their contents after you leave an area, allowing you to farm up to your max carry capacity at your leisure.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	comment	An Innsmouther-run charity in Oakmont is called Everyone's Obvious Duty Is To Help Each Other which is shortened to the first letters of the first three words or EOD. It is in no way affiliated with any other organizations from Innsmouth with the same acronym such as The Esoteric Order of Dagon.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Some of Charles' visions are actually of his past, especially his time marooned after the sinking of the USS Cyclops.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4534a70b	type	You ALL Look Familiar
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4534a70b	comment	You All Look Familiar: Other than major storyline characters, most of the characters with dialogue (including side-quest givers) draw from the relatively small pool of generic NPC models. In the first hour of the game alone you'll notice that the head of the local newspaper looks identical to the fortune teller in the harbor bar, just with a different dress.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, no one knows what happened to the Blackwood family, who disappeared after the Flood. Reed eventually learns what most Lovecraft fans will probably guess: they returned to the sea, as Deep One spawn are apt to do.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_47a3b75e	type	City Guards
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_47a3b75e	comment	City Guards: If you are not careful with your weapons, you can get into trouble with the local policemen patrolling the streets.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_47d56aac	type	Fish People
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_47d56aac	comment	Fish People: The Innsmouthers have human bodies with fish-like heads.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_48c99edc	type	Cast from Sanity
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_48c99edc	comment	Cast from Sanity: Reed's "Mind's Eye" skill takes from his Sanity Meter to use, though it functions as Regenerating Mana in practice.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The city half flooded, and the remaining half looks like it is gradually rotting and crumbling away. Just from looking at it you can viscerally imagine how the place would smell and the feeling of moisture clinging on your skin.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: This is van der Berg's opinion and his justification for why he wants Reed to open Cythgonaar and release Cthylla. He shows Reed a museum of all the human atrocities committed in Oakmont to drive home his point. The Innsmouthers are inhuman fish men/hybrids but the majority of them are actually no different from any other Oakmont citizen. The EOD is in power primarily because the Innsmouthers have nowhere else to turn in a hostile city that considers them monsters.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4c709317	type	Useless Useful Spell
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_4c709317	comment	Useless Useful Spell: While a number of skills are pretty useful, some are just a complete waste of experience. While occasionally traps can be used to delay an opponent or even kill a weak one, they're so situational and it's so uncertain where enemies will appear that it's not really worth the skill that does extra damage with them. The skill that lets you pick up traps faster is even less so because if you're spending time picking up a trap you should have already cleared out enemies in the area and have plenty of time. In general melee is the last place you want to be while fighting Wylebeasts, and the only ones that it's practical to fight in melee are the weakest kind, making faster melee and more melee damage useless. You can take skills to reduce the damage you take while swimming or from falling. The problem is that unless you'll probably spend virtually no time doing either of those things.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Every enemy was once human. Each contorted into a nest of flesh and teeth while screaming in a rage.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: When Charles is asked to search for a woman's missing husband, his only options are to accept the job and take her golden engagement ring as payment, or to agree to work for free out of sympathy, while outright rejecting the offer is impossible.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Robert Throgmorton might be the closest thing the game has to a Big Good, but he makes no secret of hating the Innsmouthers. If you tell him Lewis Flynn, one such Innsmouther, murdered his son Albert at the start of the game, he uses that as an excuse to plunge Oakmont into a race war.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_51616227	type	Power Born of Madness
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_51616227	comment	Power Born of Madness: Charles can sometimes look into the recent past to see phantoms of the people acting out what they did a little while earlier, which suits him well as a detective. Unfortunately it's also from his mental state not being the healthiest.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_5358a6f3	type	They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_5358a6f3	comment	They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Charles doesn't seem familiar with the concept. You can ask people a lot of prying questions about themselves, from asking Robert Throgmorton why he looks the way he does to asking Brutus about his wheelchair usage. More often than not the questioned party will be rather put off by your lack of tact.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_53c47260	comment	There's an option to steal Sidney Stokes' secret bullet stash in "A Delicate Matter", which he was saving to get his mother a proper burial. The trophy/achievement text even ends with "You Monster!". You can also turn him over to the police, which is at least justified by the fact he's a murderer.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The refugees from Innsmouth do not get along with much of Oakmont's population - especially the Throgmortons, who refer to them as "fish-faced freaks." However, the Innsmouthers hate the Throgmortons right back, with several people of Innsmouth descent comparing the Throgmortons to apes. You have the opportunity to outright call Throgmorton a bigot at the end of the Quid Pro Quo quest. Equally hated by both Innsmouthers and Oakmont natives are newcomers, who are members of the outside world who have come in the aftermath of the Flood. This is because the majority of them are drawn by their terrifying dreams and most of them end up insane as well as homeless.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: What the game's setting operates on. Although determining which folks operate on which side can be rather tricky and is often left up to the player to decide. Oakmont is a town that is full of weird religions, horrifying monsters, and occult secrets. And that was before the Flood that left half the city destroyed and radicalized most of the population. Generally, a lot of the regular citizens are involved in something shady and the good can be working with eldritch forces while the bad can have noble motives.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Oakmont's local dialect has a few unique terms in it— "ve'ra" means "fine" or "very well", "droch" is used in place of "damn" or other expletives, and they use "mer" to refer to the sea.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: A man in one of the earlier main cases fears for his life and won't give you the information you need unless you arrange for him to be smuggled out of Oakmont. Of course, the people you need to work out the deal with have their own problems they want you to sort out first.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: In the side quest "Rest in Peace" a husband plunders his mistress' grave because of this. In the end he commits suicide due to his inability to say he loves her.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: The right side of Graham Carpenter's face was torn and mutilated in the Great War, and he wears a mask in lieu of any reconstructive surgery. If the player chooses to kill him over Brutus, his ghost gives the now unnecessary mask to Reed as a gesture of forgiveness, revealing his true visage◊.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: As Reed's sanity decreases, the screen will start going...weird. The camera usually goes fish-eye lens, but other random effects are different color filters, heavy film grain, and various hallucinations, including hallucinatory enemies that can still do damage.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_67013b78	type	Aluminum Christmas Trees
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_67013b78	comment	Averted by the electric fans, which although modern looking, were actually invented in 1882.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_698d7dad	type	Lovecraft Country
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: Oakmont is flooded, haunted and populated either by half-mad residents or incomprehensible monsters. It helps that it is set in the same world of Lovecraft's universe.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_69dff6df	type	Fantasy Counterpart Religion
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_69dff6df	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Religion: The people of Oakmont pray to a god called Kay.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: What did you expect?
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: As you complete main story cases and side cases, certain ones will award you with more outfits for Reed to wear. A couple of them are relegated to DLC: the Investigator DLC pack adds the "Dayware" outfit, while the Worshipers of the Necronomicon DLC adds a "Cultist" outfit.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: A given considering who is driving the city crazy. A great deal of people can be found in their homes with ropes and bullet wounds. Many of the Letters from Oakmont investigations indicate the letter writers committed suicide. Examples include someone who was prompted by "voices coming out of their plumbing" to cut themselves up piece by piece and flush the bloody pieces down the sink, and a family who barricaded themselves in their homes out of fear of what was going on outside, eventually committing suicide by overdosing on sleep medication rather than starve to death. At the end of the game, Graham Carpenter immolates himself.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The protagonist is a detective called Charles W. Reed. He is often called Mister Reed by others. As in, "Mystery." An Innsmouther-run charity in Oakmont is called Everyone's Obvious Duty Is To Help Each Other which is shortened to the first letters of the first three words or EOD. It is in no way affiliated with any other organizations from Innsmouth with the same acronym such as The Esoteric Order of Dagon.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd	type	Underground Monkey
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd	comment	Underground Monkey: There are only 4 types of wylebeasts, but each type has 1 or 2 more advanced sub-types with different abilities, such as creating smoke, healing allies, Regenerating Health, cloaking, or laying down exploding mines.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_7e02bded	type	Fetch Quest
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_7e02bded	comment	Fetch Quest: The "Worshipers of the Necronomicon" DLC has the "Mystic Tomes", "Fools Gold", "Blood from a Stone" quests which adds a couple of dozen of these. Charles Reed follows clues to locations all over the city in order to recover artifacts related to the occult.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Played with. A lot of the prejudices present in 1920s America are not present, not due to any progressive movements, but rather out of the realities of living in Oakmont. Segregation, if it was ever present, was eliminated by the flood. People in Oakmont treat all local inhabitants equally regardless of skin color. Racism is downplayed and focused exclusively towards Innsmouthers and Newcomers. That said Oakmont is remarkably progressive towards real-life minorities. African Americans are not only present in all factions but in some cases in positions of power, and even run some of the central functions of Oakmont life. There is even a black member of the local KKK! That said Reed is remarkably tolerant of homosexuality and understands why a person would want to keep it a secret, which was historically accurate for the 1920s. He also expresses surprise that Anna has reached such a high rank in the E.O.D. and has a University Degree. To which she coldly remarks that "women can go a lot farther in Oakmont than on the Mainland." Additionally, everyone smokes like crazy.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Happens quite a few times due to the game's heavy emphasis on Grey-and-Grey Morality and Black-and-Grey Morality. Graham Carpenter wants to assassinate his father, a ruthless and brutal gangster, in order to take over the family business and reform it into a charity. He's unquestionably an honorable and all-around Nice Guy, and his father is unquestionably responsible for scores of murders and other crimes, but his father also indicates he'd like to turn over a new leaf after his brush with death ( though it's strongly hinted he's more set in his ways than he'd like to admit), while the son is being advised by a doomsday cult and could potentially become their puppet.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: The more advanced wylebeasts have glowing yellow weak points you can target to deal more damage, which is pretty important as they can otherwise soak up a very large amount of your very limited ammo.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8485d41a	comment	Mr. Throgmorton is one of Arthur Jermyn; both are scions of aristocratic families, both have a distinctively ape-like cast ot their faces, and both are the result of an Interspecies Romance between man and ape.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In-Universe, no one knows what happened to the Blackwood family, who disappeared after the Flood. Reed eventually learns what most Lovecraft fans will probably guess: they returned to the sea, as Deep One spawn are apt to do. Anna Cavendish disappears after her mission and is never brought up again. Robert Throgmorton is seemingly the only major character who doesn't either die during the game or show up in the finale committing suicide as the Cycle ends, making him potentially the only major human character other than Reed to survive in any of the endings that don't involve the End of the World.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8774fb47	comment	Yellow King Avenue is clearly a reference to Hastur, an Eldritch Abomination he included briefly in a few stories, chief among them The King in Yellow.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Johannes. Especially blatant if you kill him yourself.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Confronting the horrors of Oakmont is directly harmful to Charles' sanity, and if the sanity bar bottoms out he will lose his mind and die. Looking at monsters does incremental damage that can be easily recovered by simply getting away from them, but inspecting more horrific sights like dead bodies or eldritch artifacts can drain more than half of your sanity at once.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The local KKK chapter tried to muscle in on Ebernote Blackwood and his worshipers. Most of them got slaughtered by the wylebeasts summoned by Ebernote and the few survivors can be finished off by Reed.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: The wandering randomly generated townsfolk do occasionally react to wylebeasts running amok in the streets, but for the most part they'll completely fail to notice them and will continue walking calmly while the monsters chase you around.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9553214b	type	He Was Right There All Along
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9553214b	comment	He Was Right There All Along: During a fight in the basement, Granny Weaver's silhouette can be seen at the top of the stairs. After Charles looks away for a split second, the figure vanishes.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: The local constabulary does a surprisingly decent job at putting down any wylebeasts that wander out of their infested areas and start running amok on the public streets.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Johannes van der Burg (A.K.A. Hastur) and Cthylla. Johannes is involved in several of the main story cases Reed tackles, as he is guiding him to awaken Cthylla, who is the source of the flood and madness afflicting Oakmont. Since Cthylla is imprisoned, Johannes is The Heavy of the story.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9a8b3185	type	DiskOneNuke
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9a8b3185	comment	Disk One Nuke: If you bought the Necronomicon Edition, you're given the submachine gun at the start of the game. With this, you can easily clear out the early game fetch quests, giving you tons of XP to get the best skills before you even do the first story quest.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: While Cthylla is the main antagonist, Cthulhu once again never technically appears but there are references and statues around the game world.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9b2cfbb4	type	Frazetta Man
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9b2cfbb4	comment	The Throgmorton family have distinctly gorilla-like features and physical prowess, which Mr. Throgmorton claims is due to becoming related to some "royal family" a few generations ago.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The final area is essentially various non-euclidian designs stretched as far as you can see. Makes sense in context due to the presence of Cthulhu's daughter.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9f39630a	type	Laborious Laziness
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_9f39630a	comment	Laborious Laziness: An Innsmouth named Walker stated he wanted to be a Landlord as he sees that as a job where he didn't need to do any work. So he stated he worked his butt off to earn enough money to buy three properties and then tasks you with clearing the wylebeasts out of them.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a16aeb99	type	Genuine Human Hide
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a16aeb99	comment	Genuine Human Hide: One of the ambient creatures wandering around Oakmont is what appears to be a giant cat-sized shrimp that's wearing the body of a dead cat as a skinsuit. They're non-hostile and may very well be alien wildlife rather than wylebeasts, given that they seem to be vulnerable to poison (which wylebeasts are noted as unaffected by).
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: Graham Carpenter attempts to have his father Brutus Carpenter killed this way. Carpenter managed to regain consciousness just before it actually happened.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a3e3cce1	type	Invading Refugees
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a3e3cce1	comment	Invading Refugees: The Innsmouthers are fleeing persecution from the government due to the events of The Shadow Over Innsmouth but are still led by the Esoteric Order of Dagon (EOD). This means they're neck deep in evil plots and criminal activity that are contributing to Oakmont's collapse. Played with as it was the chilly reception they received from the locals that contributed to their radicalization.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: During the The Secret of Long Pork Pies investigation, upon finding a sink full of chopped-up human body parts in a restaurant kitchen, not only is Reed's sanity unaffected but he even quips "I don't think the health inspector will be pleased". Not quite as bad as "This noosed broad has seen better days", but pretty close. At Robert Throgmorton's mansion, after Albert Throgmorton's funeral is over comes a wake in which Albert's body is replaced with a life-sized cake in the image of the deceased. After the somber circumstances of the young man's death kick off the plot, it's both unexpected and darkly humorous.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: The large, fat, centaur/ centipede-like wylebeasts are the toughest of the regular wylebeast types, capable of withstanding multiple grenades and almost your entire reserve of pistol/revolver ammo, with a weak spot in the throat that's almost impossible to get a clean hit on for some reason.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a886bc5	type	Piranha Problem
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a886bc5	comment	Piranha Problem: Sort of. They're man-eating eels, but they're just as happy to start chomping on you if you dawdle in the water.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: You can't take firearms or even ammo from killed human enemies, and on occasion you'll find weapons lying around but can't take them, only being able to acquire the shotgun, submachine gun, and rifle as specific quest rewards.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: Along with the cosmic horrors, Reed has to deal with the various gangs vying for control in the city and even work with them on occasion to proceed. Most notably, there's Brutus Carpenter, the Klan, the Yellow Kings, and the EOD.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: Over the course of the game Reed finds himself in the middle of numerous evil organizations acting as a Spanner in the Works for each other in a big Gambit Pileup regarding Oakmont and the secret buried deep beneath it. Yahtzee has noted the game is as much a Mob War story as it is a Cosmic Horror story.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: Oakmont is very traditionalist with an emphasis on bloodlines and thus, ruled by an aristocracy of Grand Families for their wealth and influence over the city: the Throgmortons are the central pillar of the community that fund establishments like the Oakmont Library and University; the Carpenters rule Oakmont's criminal underworld with an iron fist, the various encountered gangs answering to them in some form; the Blackwoods share kin with the Innsmouthers through the Marsh family and dominate much of the fish market. By the time Reed arrives in Oakmont, however, most of the Blackwoods (sans Ebernote) have disappeared, leaving the Throgmortons and the Carpenters as the remaining ruling powers.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: More than half of the documents and papers you find lying around qualify. Makes sense, since you're generally investigating crime scenes in a dying town. This is actually lampshaded by the landlord of the Devil's Reef Inn, who says that so many newcomers leave unintelligible scribblings in his rooms that he just burns them.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: And how. Oakmont is a very secretive town, and practically everyone you talk to is either in on these secrets or wholly oblivious. The biggest secret is the town is built upon an abyssal prison which contains an eldritch being who can end the world.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b351b856	type	Sanity Meter
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b351b856	comment	Sanity Meter: Due to a traumatic event that happened to Charles, he has a tendency to hallucinate whenever he sees something that disturbs him. This is used as a mechanic in his Sherlock Scan, allowing him to see past events and focus on clues. In general, it functions as a Mana Meter that is Cast from Sanity.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b408c009	type	City of Adventure
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b408c009	comment	City of Adventure: Oakmont is the location for the entirety of the game. It is full of monsters, cultists, corruption, nightmarish secrets, urban segregation, and more. It is also where the start of the world's end is going to take place.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Mayoral candidate Milton Pierce is shown to be a pompous, ruthless, egotistical blowhard who urges its citizenry to "make Oakmont great again" by repelling outsiders from their community, and has proposed the construction of a wall around the town to keep out any such foreign influences (a meaningless gesture, as Oakmont is already closed off from the rest of the world by the Flood).
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: If you choose Bethany Throgmorton in "Through the Looking Glass" Arthur Throgmorton comes back as a zombie seven year old.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Charles Reed can become quite hostile to Hastur, Cthulhu's brother, which can cause him to take offence at his "tone." Reed can later escalate this by shooting him in the head if the player chooses to. It's lucky that Hastur has more use for Reed alive than dead, allowing Reed to get away with all of this.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Just about everything, as should be expected for the setting. You'll get quite a ways into the game without learning any concrete information about the Blackwoods, the EOD, or even the god everyone in Oakmont worships.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_bef696dd	comment	In the No Choice ending, Reed escapes Oakmont with the Seal in hopes of breaking the cycle. However, a few years later, van der Berg tracks him down in Boston and floods the city. Maybe. It's unclear if that last part really happens or is a hallucination.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c2b28f75	type	A.K.A.-47
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c2b28f75	comment	A.K.A.-47: All the guns featured in the game have generic alternative designations. The most thinly veiled ones being Reed's pistol and revolver, both being "Bolt" brand, even though they're obviously of Colt make: the pistol being a fusion of the Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP chamber, 7 round magazine, all-around general design) and the iconic 1911 (magazine release button being on the side of the grip rather than the bottom) and the revolver being a .44-40 chambered Colt New Service. They even go so far as to rename the ammunition, with the Thompson-inspired Submachine Gun being chambered in .45 ABP (Automatic Bolt Pistol).
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c45237fb	type	Dialogue Tree
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c45237fb	comment	Dialogue Tree: Short summaries of your potential responses appear in mid-air, with no other stylistic elements.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c4b09e97	type	Doppelgänger
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c4b09e97	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger: In the "Assigned Reading" side case, the students in one home try to make illusions to take their place to attend class so they don't have to. Unfortunately, the "illusions" are really this (actually sentient beings pulled from another dimension who only look like the students because of the spell), who cause a Kill and Replace on their originals and cover it up with an actual illusion. Brutus Carpenter is sent to his death and replaced with a magically-created clone as part of Graham's bid to take over. If you side with Graham, the clone completely assumes the role of the real Brutus Carpenter. In the Self-Defense case, Reed discovers that one of Oakmont's citizens looks remarkably like him and was blackmailed into helping frame Reed for murder.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	comment	Graham Carpenter wants to assassinate his father, a ruthless and brutal gangster, in order to take over the family business and reform it into a charity. He's unquestionably an honorable and all-around Nice Guy, and his father is unquestionably responsible for scores of murders and other crimes, but his father also indicates he'd like to turn over a new leaf after his brush with death ( though it's strongly hinted he's more set in his ways than he'd like to admit), while the son is being advised by a doomsday cult and could potentially become their puppet.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Reed's tiny motorboat, the Cyclops II, manages to always be at whatever waterway Reed needs to traverse, with no indication of how it got there from where Reed left it last.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Reed mentions that he spent some time in an asylum after the sinking of the Cyclops. Judging by the fact that one of his hallucinations is a doctor approaching him with an outstretched hand (and the fact that this takes place in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose asylums have a slightly worse track record than real-life asylums) it can be assumed he was sent to one of these.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the notes you can find around Oakmont is a pin-up poster hidden in a locker. The descriptor says it reminds Reed of "old Snake's shenanigans", with it even mentioning that "(he) miss(es) that guy". A destination you end up going to during a side quest is a glasswork workshop that makes mirrors. The owner of which being one Gaunter Randall, who looks very familiar. The archives of the Police Station mention a Lt. Phelps. Several examples of Grave Humor in the game are references— an urn in the Crematorium reads F**k it, Dude, let's go bowling. The list in the morgue makes note of a "Jack White", who needs to be cremated urgently. Police records for a felony lynching at the Orion Club identify Z.H. Comstock as the chief suspect. The "Master Sleuth" costume has Reed wearing a deerstalker hat, which is commonly associated with Sherlock Holmes. A mural of Shub-Niggurath can be found in a cave temple to her. Her "head" in the mural is almost identical in appearance to her depiction in Quake There's an achievement for killing Usha when her guard is down, which prevents her from dodging your bullets. The achievement's name? "Dodge this".
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c9861848	type	Video Game Caring Potential
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: As mentioned below, you can tell Anna in "Quid Pro Quo" that her night watchman Daryl, who was distracted making toys for charity on the job, screwed up... or you can say that he fought off multiple attackers before going down, and recommend him for a raise. Later in the mission, you can also tell Daryl to break off from the EOD and skip town while he can, saving him from possible punishment down the line. In "Extra Hours", Reed can find circumstantial evidence that reveals one of the murdered men, R.J. Bekker, was Officer Shaw's romantic partner. Rather than out him, as Shaw is nervous he might, Reed instead says he knows why Shaw is so committed to this case, and offers his sincere condolences for his loss.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Despite being on the ocean floor during dive sections, you can still see perfectly well for a pretty good distance. The chemical lamps strewn about provide little to no actual light and only function to mark your path.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_cb360d4e	type	Supernatural Hotspot Town
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_cb360d4e	comment	Supernatural Hotspot Town: Oakmont is home to several different cults, with cultists walking around the unflooded parts of the city in broad daylight. It's also full of refugees from Innsmouth, one of the upper-class families is the result of a union between a human and an ape, and grottos around the city contain ruins pertaining to the Great Old Ones.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ccc73c34	type	Spooky Painting
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_ccc73c34	comment	Spooky Painting: A painting in one of the houses that an Innsmouther has you clear out has a note beside it suggesting that the painting has driven the former of the old house completely mad.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_cea9db1	type	Not Always Evil
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_cea9db1	comment	Not Always Evil: The game heavily emphasizes the point that, even though it's pointless to deny that EOD is a clearly evil doomsday cult intent on subverting human society from within (and the Deep Ones' long-term plans probably aren't too good for humanity either), not all Innsmouthers are culpable for their actions (if only because most of them are too low on the food chain to know what's really going on) and many are just ordinary people trying to get on with their lives who just happened to be born with a fishman for a parent. While most Innsmouthers you meet are assholes, Reed points out that their social ostracization means they have little choice except to radicalize and turn to fanatical groups like the EOD for support. While dealing with Robert Throgmorton the only dialogue options involve challenging his prejudices, instead of agreeing with him "yeah, fuck those fishmen" after they've tried to kill you numerous times in the past.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: If you try to shoot Johannes van der Berg at the Devil's Reef Inn before you talk to him, the gun clicks as if there's no loaded rounds and he says, "Is that a gun, or do you just want a handshake?"
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Over the course of "Self-Defense", Milton Pierce and the Yellow Kings set up Reed as a fall-guy for van der Berg's shooting by extorting Glenn Byers and kidnapping his family, with Pierce only agreeing to change his testimony if you kill his mother. Instead, Reed can not only warn Mrs. Pierce of her son's intentions, blow the Yellow Kings away, and free Byers' family, but keep Glenn out of trouble by planting the murder weapon among Pierce's possessions, getting Milton hung for the murder he himself planned. Van der Berg is quite impressed at Reed's knack for revenge.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: When you die, you respawn with all your weapons, healing items, and scrap. Thus, you won't need to search for supplies. Another small one is the ability to walk between areas and the supplies return to where and what quantity they were. So some hard-to-find items will replenish if you simply walk into two houses.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_dc1a6b76	type	Reality Is Out to Lunch
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_dc1a6b76	comment	Reality Is Out to Lunch: A recurring feature as Charles goes progressively mad.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: You can find Billy outside of the Under the Keel bar at the very beginning of the game. Presumably, it's because he's just knocked off work after helping arrange Albert's murder at Johannes' order.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_df02a97f	type	City of Canals
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_df02a97f	comment	City of Canals: Many of Oakmont's streets have been flooded to the point of being only traversed by boat. There are also nightmarish creatures swimming in its waters, and Reed's boat gets attacked by a giant tentacle pretty early on.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: During the day you can expect more browns whereas at you get a sickly grey tint at night.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e49a7b31	type	Regenerating Mana
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e49a7b31	comment	Regenerating Mana: How the Sanity Meter works. Seeing horrific things can cause it to decrease, but some time away from it or from using the "Mind's Eye" skill will allow the sanity to return within a few seconds.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Two important ones appear in the game, the Esoteric Order of Dagon also known as the EOD and the Redemption Church. At the end you have to find one that thought eating part of a supernatural stone would save them. In addition Charles can wear a cultist costume in the game.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Oakmont is one for Arkham, Massachusetts, including having its own versions of Arkham Asylum and Miskatonic University. Mr. Throgmorton is one of Arthur Jermyn; both are scions of aristocratic families, both have a distinctively ape-like cast ot their faces, and both are the result of an Interspecies Romance between man and ape. Reed is one of the unnamed protagonists of Dagon, being a Great War Navy vet who lost his ship and discovered an unspeakable horror on an isolated island. They can even share the same fate of committing suicide.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Mr. van der Berg gets murdered later in the game, only to reappear in Reed's hotel room no worse for wear. In fact, it's even possible for the player to seemingly kill van der Berg themselves, but he'll be back in at least one of the endings. It's likely due to him actually being Hastur.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_e60bda	comment	The Klan: Appears in the Nosedive case. You get to shoot them. They think they're bigshots when they're clearly a joke compared to the numerous genuinely dangerous secret occult organizations at work in Oakmont.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_eff83d77	comment	In the "Assigned Reading" side case, the students in one home try to make illusions to take their place to attend class so they don't have to. Unfortunately, the "illusions" are really this (actually sentient beings pulled from another dimension who only look like the students because of the spell), who cause a Kill and Replace on their originals and cover it up with an actual illusion.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_f2159a54	comment	Chain of Deals: Especially in the main cases. A lot of the people you need things from just so happen to have problems that only a private eye can solve, and they're not above making you take care of those issues first before they'll help you.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_f22249e	comment	Body of Bodies: The larger wylebeasts, namely the Giant Mook variant and particularly the huge boss guarding the Necronomicon in the DLC missions, are composed of multiple human bodies merged into a nightmarish gestalt creature.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_f2a8ac6e	comment	The Secret of Long Pork Pies: During a side quest you're sent to investigate a restaurant where customers have been disappearing. It's not hard to guess what's happened to them, but who exactly is eating them is still a surprise.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: As you might expect from a detective story, a number of optional mission endings can let you rat out innocent people to the authorities, even if you've already promised that you won't. There's an option to steal Sidney Stokes' secret bullet stash in "A Delicate Matter", which he was saving to get his mother a proper burial. The trophy/achievement text even ends with "You Monster!". You can also turn him over to the police, which is at least justified by the fact he's a murderer. "Quid Pro Quo" gives you the chance to help Professor Cavendish carry out his poisoning by killing two EOD guards. There's also an indirect example in snitching on Daryl — a relatively friendly, big-hearted Innsmouther who even carves toys for the local orphanage — to Anna for neglecting his guard duties, setting him up to be tortured or killed. There's nothing stopping you from mowing down innocent civilians in the streets. Doing so will drop your sanity like a rock, with two murders in a row being enough to drive Charles to suicide.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: All of the abandoned houses feel like they are but it's played straight in Granny Weavers residence.
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The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: As you discover during a series of side cases, an uncomfortable number of the monsters you'll encounter in Oakmont were once people and have since mutated into unrecognizable forms through various mechanisms (namely, the humanoid spitters can convert humans into more of themselves with their contagious vomit, the hopping Bullsquid-like creatures are people who transformed after eating human flesh, and the Giant Mook creatures are formed from dead bodies stashed together in mass graves). You can discern some humanoid aspects to them, if you dare to examine their corpses more closely.
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