The Sinking City 2: All Accessibility Options Explained

Aim Assist Strength determines how much help you receive while acquiring and holding targets. It is suited to players who struggle with fine motor control, controller aiming, or tracking enemies during close-range encounters.

The best starting value is the lowest available strength that makes targeting comfortable. Increase it when the crosshair still slips away from enemies; reduce it if the assistance interferes with manual target selection.

Aim Slowdown reduces reticle movement while engaging a target, helping players who acquire enemies successfully but overshoot them during fine corrections.

Begin with the gentlest available slowdown that prevents repeated overshooting. A stronger value favors stable tracking, while a lighter value makes transitions between enemies faster.

Immortality is a survival aid intended to remove death and the repetition that follows it. It lets players retain exploration and horror atmosphere without having a failure state repeatedly end encounters.

Set it to On when dying or replaying encounters is the barrier. Leave it off and lower the regular difficulty first if you still want combat failure to remain possible.

Invulnerability is available on Sweet Dreams and can turn off incoming damage. It is the strongest option for players who want to focus on story, exploration, and atmosphere without health loss.

Set it to On for a no-damage experience. Otherwise, reserve it for encounters that remain inaccessible after lowering the general difficulty.

The game has four difficulty modes, ranging from Sweet Dreams at the easier end to Sleep Demon at the harder end. They govern the broader survival-horror challenge without forcing the same choice on the investigation layer.

Begin with Sweet Dreams if combat deaths or resource pressure are likely to halt progress. Choose a more demanding mode when managing danger and supplies is part of the experience you want.

There are two investigation difficulty options, allowing deduction challenge to be adjusted separately from combat. The more supportive choice suits players affected by clue interpretation, memory demands, or interruptions to the reasoning flow.

Use the supportive option when uninterrupted story momentum matters most. Select the more demanding alternative when forming connections independently is part of the desired challenge.

Basic subtitles cover the main story and main characters. They support players who cannot consistently rely on spoken dialogue, although this coverage does not include every incidental sound or conversation.

Enable subtitles before beginning if dialogue comprehension is important, then balance the audio mix around any environmental cues you still need to hear.

Individual volume controls let you lower or mute separate parts of the audio mix. This can reduce competing sounds, sudden intensity, and sensory overload.

Set the sounds you need to understand first, then lower competing channels until dialogue and gameplay cues remain clear and comfortable.

3D audio positions sounds around the listener through a compatible output setup. It can make directional cues easier to interpret for players who rely on positional sound.

Test it with your normal headphones or speakers. Keep it enabled when the wider sound field improves orientation, or turn it off if sound placement becomes disorienting or difficult to separate.

Basic stick sensitivity options control how quickly stick input moves the camera or aim. Lower sensitivity supports smaller corrections and gentler camera movement, while higher sensitivity reduces the physical movement needed for quick turns.

Start at the default, test both fine aiming and a full camera turn, then adjust toward the direction that requires fewer corrections and less effort.

The game and its menus can be used without rapid or time-limited button presses. This removes a barrier for players affected by repetitive input, fatigue, pain, or limited dexterity.

Use this option immediately if repeated tapping causes strain rather than waiting for a demanding encounter.

On supported console hardware, the game remains playable without motion controls. Players who cannot comfortably tilt or move a controller can rely on conventional inputs.

Keep motion input disabled unless it is a control method you actively prefer.

The game can be played without touch-based controller input. This supports players who find touch surfaces inaccurate, uncomfortable, or physically inaccessible.

Use standard button and stick controls from the beginning whenever touch gestures present a barrier.

Controller vibration and haptic feedback can be disabled to reduce distraction, hand discomfort, fatigue, or sensory overload during combat and environmental effects.

Turn vibration off at the start if physical feedback is uncomfortable. Otherwise, test it during an early encounter and disable it if sustained feedback becomes tiring.

On PS5, adaptive trigger effects can be disabled, removing added trigger resistance or feedback. This can reduce finger strain and make repeated weapon inputs easier.

Turn the effect off immediately if resistance causes discomfort or slows input. Leave it enabled only when the added feedback remains comfortable.