The Sinking City 2Independent player notesGuides → Story and characters
Short answer: The Sinking City 2 is a standalone story about Calvin Rafferty entering flooded Arkham to save Faye. You do not need to have played the first game: Charles Reed is not the playable lead, and Frogwares does not impose one canonical ending from his story.
Spoiler-light scope: this page explains the official premise and confirmed character roles. It does not reveal the final outcome, chapter solutions, boss identities, or the ending.
The sequel takes place in 1920s Arkham, a port city buckling under a supernatural flood. Calvin enters a resource-scarce city shaped by flooded routes, refuges, investigations, and eldritch threats.
A ritual went wrong and trapped Faye's soul in the Dreamlands. Malevolent forces then stole her body, turning the journey into a rescue with consequences larger than either of them.
Game director Alexander Gresko describes Calvin and Faye's story through love, devotion, sacrifice, loneliness, and the pressure between doing the decent thing and doing what is survivable.
This is a current-source character index, not a database scrape. It includes only roles the developer or official stores make traceable.
Playable protagonist; voiced by Andrew Wheildon-Dennis
Frogwares introduces occult adventurer Calvin Rafferty as the sequel's new protagonist. The studio's official Meet the Cast video identifies Andrew Wheildon-Dennis as Calvin's performer. Calvin's journey into flooded Arkham is driven by the attempt to rescue Faye.
The person Calvin is trying to save
The current official store premise says a failed ritual trapped her soul in the Dreamlands while malevolent forces have stolen her body. Her absence is the campaign's central rescue stake.
First-game protagonist; context only
Charles is not the playable lead of The Sinking City 2. Frogwares says his story ended with the first game and intentionally leaves that game's choices without a canonical ending.
Credit boundary: Frogwares directly identifies Andrew Wheildon-Dennis as Calvin. The official sources checked do not publish a complete traceable cast list, so this guide does not attach further database credits to characters without a first-party source.
Frogwares deliberately moved away from Charles Reed so returning players would not have to accept one of the first game's endings as canon. The studio says there is no canonical ending for that game and that newcomers can follow Calvin and Faye without missing a required chapter of their story.
Open the spoiler-light chapter navigator and choose the task blocking you.
Open chapters & missions →The full walkthrough reveals routes, encounters, puzzles, and bosses.
Open the walkthrough →The ending page explains the final outcome with full spoilers.
Read the ending explanation →Separate confirmed secrets and lore from pre-launch carryover wording.
Open the New Game Plus evidence →Frogwares' official cast interview lets Andrew Wheildon-Dennis explain Calvin in his own words. It is a better match for character intent than an unofficial cast database and stays separate from the full ending explanation.
No. Frogwares describes The Sinking City 2 as an entirely new, standalone story and says players do not need to have played the first game to follow Calvin and Faye.
Calvin Rafferty is the new playable protagonist. Frogwares' release material calls him an occult adventurer whose tragic journey takes him into flooded Arkham to save Faye.
Faye is the woman Calvin loves and is trying to rescue. The official store premise says her soul is trapped in the Dreamlands and her body has been taken by malevolent forces.
No. Charles Reed is the protagonist of the first game. The sequel follows Calvin, and Frogwares says the first game's different choices do not have one canonical ending that players must accept first.
Frogwares' official Meet the Cast video identifies Andrew Wheildon-Dennis as Calvin Rafferty. The current official sources checked do not publish a complete traceable cast list, so this page does not repeat additional database credits without a first-party source.
Use the separate ending guide after finishing the campaign. This page stays spoiler-light and does not reveal the final outcome for Calvin or Faye.
Sources checked: August 26, 2026. The descriptions above paraphrase current first-party material. They do not infer a complete cast, hidden relationships, or an ending from database listings.