If you’ve read this far, this game is almost certainly for you. 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.I think it’s quite possible that if the ship was 50 faster, the game would be more fun and less. But we’ve resisted speeding up the ship, because it would reduce the tension, the sense of space and distance, and the menace of the dark. Choose a ship’s mascot: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, and more! You could reasonably call it a slow game.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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