The atmosphere is very thick, and at any given instance from the very beginning of the game, you get the feeling that there is something very wrong with this town. The game does a very good job of painting this illusion of deep paranoia through seemingly mundane events and lives of the people living there. It’s simple enough to understand, yet also very maddening to think about. The Sinking City, story-wise, has a lot to offer for players both familiar and not to the Lovecraftian genre. This same madness has called Reed and others to the town, where they are cast aside by the townsfolk for being ‘Newcomers.’ Adding to all this is that the town now hosts dangerous creatures that seemingly came with the incident, and now strike terror and fear through the hearts and minds of everyone who crosses their paths. Called ‘The Flood,’ wherein a dark force has plagued the town and its inhabitants, this phenomenon has submerged most parts of Oakmont in water under the guise of heavy rainfall, while affecting its citizens with hysteria and madness, often resulting in incredibly violent outbursts. Oakmont is not all as it seems, as the secluded fishing town is currently experiencing a very unnatural phenomenon that sets up the tale quite nicely. This starts him on a journey to investigate the cause. Like any good Lovecraftian tale, it all starts when terrifying visions and nightmares start to plague numerous people, of which Reed is also affected. Reed, a particularly troubled war veteran who turned into a keen private investigator. The Sinking City is set in the 1920s, in a fictional city of Oakmont, Massachusetts.
Some of Oakmont's streets are like the world-famous Venice waterways, but you also get some unnatural fog and tentacled horrors with it.
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