The Sinking City 2 Holloway Manor Mission Guide

What Holloway Manor is

It is the headline reason to pay the extra ten dollars for the Premium Edition. Rather than a cosmetic pack, it is an actual mission — a self-contained haunted-house scenario roughly the length of one of the main chapters, built around the same exploration, searching and combat as the campaign.

The three editions are compared in full on the editions page: the short version is Standard $49.99, Deluxe $54.99 adds cosmetics and resources, and Premium $59.99 adds this mission plus 24-hour early access.

When to play it

Early. The reward is a weapon, and a weapon is worth more the longer you hold it. The Bucking Bronco is a heavy revolver — high per-shot damage, slow cadence — which makes it useful exactly in the fights the campaign is stingy about, and it pairs well with a fast weapon in your other slot.

The counter-argument is that the manor is not tuned to be your first content, and going in underpowered is unpleasant. A reasonable compromise: play it after chapter 2, once you have the submachine gun and a talent or two.

What to expect inside

• The same systems, compressed. Searching, locked rooms, resource pressure and encounters — with less traversal than a main chapter.
• Its own supplies. Anything you find here you keep, so it is a net gain in resources as well as a weapon unlock.
• No effect on the campaign's structure. It does not change chapter order or the main story's progression.

Is the Premium Edition worth it for this?

If you value content over cosmetics, yes — two hours of authored mission plus a weapon for ten dollars over Standard is a better ratio than most deluxe upgrades. If you already own Standard or Deluxe, whether the mission is sold separately is not something Frogwares has confirmed, and we will not guess at it.

Full pricing on the price page, and the version-by-version breakdown on editions.

How it compares to the main chapters

Holloway Manor is denser than a campaign chapter and less varied. There is no boat traversal, no district to wander and no optional investigation web — it is a single building, explored floor by floor, with the pressure turned up.

That focus is the appeal. The main campaign's best stretch is arguably the Devil's Reef Hotel in chapter 2, and the manor is essentially two more hours of that shape: locked rooms, a building that loops back on itself, and encounters you cannot simply outrun. If the hotel was the part of the game you enjoyed most, this is the content built for you.

What it will not do is change the story. It sits outside the five chapters, so nothing you do in the manor alters the campaign's outcome, and nothing in the campaign gates it.

Difficulty carries over from your campaign setting, and as everywhere else in the game it can be changed mid-mission from the pause menu. If you go in early and the manor bites harder than expected, that is the intended release valve rather than a reason to abandon the mission.

If Holloway Manor is not appearing

• You do not own the Premium Edition. It is not in Standard or Deluxe.
• You have not reached the point where it unlocks. Check your map for available tasks — Frogwares' own advice for anyone who cannot find an objective.
• You bought an upgrade and it has not applied. Restart the game so entitlements re-check; on Steam, verifying the game files also forces a re-sync.