The "story" begins with The Sinking City , a Lovecraftian investigation game developed by Frogwares and released in 2019. Set in the 1920s in Oakmont, Massachusetts, it follows a private investigator navigating a city plagued by supernatural floods and madness. Ironically, the game itself became embroiled in a real-world legal battle between its developer and publisher, leading to it being delisted from stores multiple times—making digital copies like this one a primary way many users accessed the game during those disputes. The Protagonist: CODEX

: If even one byte of part3 was corrupted during download, the entire game would fail to extract.

The suffix reveals the technical struggle of the early-to-mid digital age. Large games were often split into smaller "parts" (usually 1GB to 5GB each) to make them easier to upload and download on slower or unstable internet connections.