Is The Sinking City 2 on PS4 or Xbox One?

Why there is no last-gen version

The Sinking City 2 PS4 question comes down to hardware, and the reasons are visible in the published PC requirements. This is an Unreal Engine 5 game that requires an SSD, installs at 70 GB, and lists a GTX 1070 with 8 GB of VRAM as its minimum GPU for 1080p at 30 fps on Low settings.

PS4 and Xbox One have mechanical hard drives, considerably less memory, and GPUs well below that minimum. A port would not be a downscale so much as a rebuild, and Frogwares is a small studio that released this game at a deliberately sub-AAA price.

What last-gen console owners can play

The Sinking City (2019) runs on PS4 — searches for "the sinking city ps4" are about that game, not this one — and the Xbox One version is on the Microsoft store too. It is a genuinely different game — an open-world Lovecraftian detective story rather than a linear survival horror — and it is a standalone predecessor rather than required reading.

There is also a remastered version of the first game, which is a separate purchase and a separate question from the sequel — and worth knowing about if you are on older consoles and want something in this series to play tonight. We cover the comparison on remastered versus the sequel.

Do you need the first game?

No. The sequel tells a standalone story with a new protagonist, Calvin Rafferty, and a new case. Playing the original adds tonal context for Arkham and the setting, but nothing you need to follow events. The long answer is on do you need to play the first game.

Cheapest route onto a supported platform

If you are on last-gen hardware and want the sequel, the realistic options are a current-gen console or a PC that clears the minimum spec. The minimum GPU — a GTX 1070 or RX 5700 — is a used-market card now, which makes a modest PC upgrade a lower bar than it sounds.

Check the full requirements before you spend anything, particularly the SSD requirement, which is not optional.

Older consoles are not a hidden route here either: there is no cloud-streaming version, no backwards-compatible workaround and no last-gen SKU waiting to be announced. The platform list is what it is, and it has not moved since launch.

One practical consequence for save data: because there is no last-generation version, there is no cross-generation save transfer to worry about. A run started on PS5 stays on PS5, and the same is true on Xbox. If you intend to split a two-playthrough completion across machines, the cloud saves within a single platform family are the only bridge available.

What about future ports?

Not announcedFrogwares has announced no additional platforms of any kind, including Switch 2. A last-generation port after a current-gen launch would be unusual, but we report what has been announced rather than what is likely.

Quick platform comparison

One further note for anyone weighing an upgrade purely for this game: it is a roughly ten-hour campaign, and a second playthrough is needed for full completion. That is a reasonable amount of content, but it is not the scale of game that usually justifies new hardware on its own — the more sensible framing is whether the rest of the current-generation library is worth the move.