Valve removed The sinking city from its digital store window Steam after the company received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) request from game developer Frogwares, Under reports. Frogwares claims that the original publisher of the game, Nacon, hacked and pirated the game and republished it on Steam without the studio’s knowledge.
A Valve spokesman said Under Tuesday night that the company was able to “gather extremely strong evidence to indicate that this version of the game was pirated”, and that the version of The sinking city published on its digital store window “contains content to which Nacon has absolutely no rights – namely The gracious madness DLC. ”
The sinking city originally launched in 2019, but Frogwares announced last year that it would take the game out of stores, citing the repayment Nacon owes the studio. Nacon tells Eurogamer that he accused the developer of ‘playing the victim’ and said that he had paid more than € 10 million to the studio so far. At the end of February, Nacon put the game back on Steam, which according to Frogwares was actually a pirate version of the game that was not linked to the studio (and which has since been removed following the DMCA request).
Currently there The sinking cityThe Steam page does appear in a web browser search, but clicking on it takes you to the Steam web homepage. The sinking cityThe computer version is still on sale as a proprietary publication of Frogwares through other store windows, such as Origin.