Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · US · GamesPlanet
- Live offers
- 14 offers · 5 stores
The Sinking City 2 lands on 18 August, and the pre-order board is already full: fourteen live listings, three editions and one detail that runs against the usual script — the official page is not the cheapest thing on it. Before you open the The Sinking City 2 listing, it pays to know what actually separates one tier from the next, because the gap is far smaller than most people assume.
Three editions, and a cheap ladder between them
Three tiers are on sale, and every seller on our board carries the same three. Sorted by the lowest live price for each one, this is where they stand.
| Edition | Lowest seller | From |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | GamesPlanet | € |
| Deluxe Edition | GamesPlanet | € |
| Premium Edition | GamesPlanet | € |
Read the right-hand column downwards and the point makes itself: the entire climb from Standard to Premium costs less than a cinema ticket. On most launches that ladder is a twenty-euro decision; here it is close to loose change, which changes the question from "is the Deluxe worth it" to "is there any reason not to".
What our board does not carry is the contents of each tier. That list lives on the seller page, and it is the one thing worth reading before you decide the extra is earned.
The official listing is not the cheapest one
Steam lists the standard edition at € and GOG at €. The lowest standard listing on our board is € at GamesPlanet, which is 21% under the Steam figure — and it comes from a shop with its own catalogue, not from a marketplace seller.
That same shop lists each of the three tiers twice, once for Steam and once for GOG, at exactly the same price. If you have a preference about which launcher the game ends up in, this is the rare case where the preference is free.
Why do some resale listings cost more than the shop itself?
Because they are not selling the same object. Nearly everything sitting above the official figure is tagged Steam Gift: not a code you redeem yourself, but a gift transfer that has to be accepted from another account. It can be held for days by Steam trade limits, it is awkward to refund, and it carries a territory tag of its own. Difmark's lands at € (with coupon Gocdkeys) — coupon included, and still above the official page.
Three weeks without the floor moving
We have been recording this page since mid-July. Since the 15th the lowest live price has only moved between €39.12 and €39.46 — cents, not euros — and the only upward jumps landed on days when the cheapest listing briefly dropped out of stock and the next one up took over.
Three weeks of flat floor is not proof that nothing will happen in launch week, but it does say that holding out so far has bought nobody anything. Pre-order pricing on this title has behaved like a fixed number, not like a countdown.
The call, in three lines
You only want the game. Standard, and stop there. It is the tier every seller stocks, and it is where the discount against the official figure is widest.
You want the extras. The step up is small enough that the honest advice is to open the seller page, read what Deluxe and Premium add, and decide on the contents rather than on the price.
You care about the launcher. Pick the Steam or the GOG line of the same tier at the same shop; they cost the same, so let the library decide.
Whichever way you go, the board moves daily. You can buy The Sinking City 2 key comparing every seller at once, with the edition, the format and the territory tag all in plain sight.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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