The Sinking City 2 Abandoned Office Safe Code: 6294

The one code that is not a date

1908 is a shop's founding year. 1672 is a bell casting. 2137 is on hotel stationery. 1496 is assembled from clue items. 6294 is spoken aloud.

That single difference is why this safe generates more searches than the others: the room contains no note, so the natural conclusion is that the clue must be elsewhere in the district. It is not — you have to be present for the conversation, and you have to be listening.

Where the abandoned office is

The office sits in the Time and Tide dock block, near the market floor and the weighing station. The chapter routes you through it, so you are unlikely to miss the room itself; what people miss is the trigger inside it.

If you want the code without the séance, enter 6294 and take the contents.

Ghosts as a clue delivery system

The Sinking City 2 uses spectral replays throughout the back half of the game as a way of putting information in a room without leaving a document. It is a good instinct to develop for the last two chapters: if a space feels like it should have a note and does not, stand still and let the audio finish before you move on.

The same pattern shows up in Cold Comfort, where several sequences resolve by waiting rather than searching.

Clear the rest of the chapter while you are here

Time and Tide is dense: two safes, two mechanism locks, multiple keys and the chapter's best supply caches. Before you leave for Cold Comfort, make sure you have opened 1496, cleared the salt storage and worked the symbol padlock — and run the missable checklist, because chapter 5 is a one-way door.

If 6294 does not work

• You are at the locker room safe. That one takes 1496.
• The interaction is not active yet. If the safe gives no prompt, check the map for your current task — Frogwares' own advice for anyone who thinks they are stuck.
• You entered 6249 or 6924. The digit order is six, two, nine, four.

Two safes, one district, constant confusion

The locker room and the abandoned office sit close together, both are dockside interiors, and both contain a four-digit safe. Between them they generate more mixed-up code searches than anything else in The Sinking City 2.

The simple way to keep them straight: the locker room safe is 1496 and its clue is assembled from collected evidence; the abandoned office safe is 6294 and its clue is spoken by a ghost. If you found a document, you are working on 1496. If you heard a voice, you are working on 6294.