Steam removes Sunken City after publisher’s alleged hack game for developer

Steam has now withdrawn The Sinking City after developer Frogwares claimed yesterday that the game’s publisher, Nacon, purchased a copy of The Sinking City, modified it to include the Nacon logos and sent the game back to the internet in Steam. to sell it to customers without permission from Frogwares.
The original story:

In an article on Steam, publisher Sinking City Nacon said that the version of The Sinking City currently on Steam under his name is “an official and full version”, and that the only problem with the release is the lack of specific features. to Steam such as from Cloud Support. Achievements – a problem he attributes to “lack of cooperation” with developer Frogwares.

This comes in response to various complaints from players that the Steam version does not have the aforementioned features, as well as Frogwares which recently urged players not to purchase the game on Steam.

Frogwares has since refined its stance, stating that while there was a legal battle over whether Nacon had the rights to The Sinking City was pending in French courts, Nacon bought a copy of the game from Gamesplanet and changed some elements such as splash screens and logos. To give the impression that the game has been licensed to Nacon, then re-upload it to Steam as an official version.

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Sinking City was first removed from many storefronts in August 2020, with Frogwares claiming at the time that the publisher had broken its contract with the developer, stopped making overdue payments and attempted to hide the involvement of Frogwares in game releases. He was authorized to distribute. The lawsuit, which also involved a number of other similarly released Frogwares titles, such as Sherlock Holmes Games, has been filed with the French courts. The decision is still pending.

First launched in 2019, we looked at The Sinking City at launch and found the game compelling in its storytelling, albeit challenging in some mechanics like travel and open world combat.

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Correction: An earlier version of this story told of Nacon’s response, but was actually an earlier response to a previous accusation. We have updated the story to reflect this and we apologize for the error.