![]() Slowly but surely you become braver and braver, venturing further afield and keeping a very close eye on your fuel levels. You return to Fallen London, which acts as your home port in every playthrough, restocking on fuel and supplies, chatting to the locals and preparing for another foray into the unknown. Your first tentative nautical miles will be slow and apprehensive, only going so far as the local lighthouse or haunted house. And so you set off, with a small crew, a small ship and very limited supplies (feeds your crew) and fuel (feeds your ship). ![]() Once you decide from where you came and what your future should hold, you are let loose on the Unterzee, a large ocean based under the ground of Earth, cavernous and full of terrors. The brief snippets of lore and backstory you receive are largely down to you – have you crawled up from the gutters and are trying to retrieve your father’s long lost bones for a proper burial, or are you a former priest hell bent on writing his final masterpiece before he gets too old? Or do you not know where you came from, and remain anonymous in the busy ports and harbours that offer what little sanctuary there is? You play as a Captain (or one of a few select titles and silhouettes you can choose from), forged in the bowels of Fallen London and ready to start taking on the gods of the sea. I’ve been hooked since the first loading screen. From the get go, it’s a very melancholy game, bursting at the seams with atmosphere and mystery. I had seen a few bits here and there about it, and it looked quite an intriguing game, mixing themes seen in Dishonored and elements from roguelikes. One of the first games I downloaded was Sunless Sea. With a bit of persuading I got him to give me access to his library. My brother has nigh on 300 games on his Steam list and I wanted to play some of them. Since my new laptop arrived, I’ve put only a few games onto my ‘to play’ list. I don’t have the patience for tweaking my PC to run many games any games I do have aren’t the most recent releases. If you’ve read this far, this game is almost certainly for you.I’m not a big PC gamer. ![]() We’ve been making indie games since 2009. Who are Failbetter Games?We’re a boutique games studio based in London, UK. Trade or smuggle silk and souls, mushroom wine and hallucinogenic honey.Choose a ship’s mascot: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, and more!.Upgrade your steamship with powerful engines, cannons and pneumatic torpedo guns.Real-time combat against ships and Zee-beasts, spider-crewed dreadnoughts and sentient icebergs. ![]() Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog-shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE.Build a legacy of zailors who braved the sea and lost - or, occasionally, won. Acquire a family home and a hoard of heirlooms. Pass on resources from one generation to the next. Light and dark, terror and madness: spend too long on the wide, dark sea and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity.Ĭarve a life for your captain in a cruel and unique worldĪ deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets. Each has a story to tell, if you can draw it out of them. Hire unique officers like the Haunted Doctor and the Irrepressible Cannoneer. Seek out intriguing individuals for your crew But that old black ocean beckons, and there’s loot for the brave souls who dare to sail her. If the giant crabs, sentient icebergs and swarms of bats don’t get you, madness and cannibalism certainly will. Sunless Sea is a Gothic Horror RPG with a focus on exploration, exquisite storytelling and frequent death.Ĭaptain a Victorian steamship on a vast underground sea ![]()
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