Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Sunless Sea
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Sunless Skies: Soveriegn Edition will be released for PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in the first half of 2020!
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will include new content and various improvements, and will be released on PC at the same time as on console. Players who already own the game on PC will receive the Sovereign Edition for free.
It's been a great year for Sunless Skies, thanks to your support, and we're delighted to be able to celebrate it with this enhanced edition.
What's new in the Sovereign Edition?
Here's our Narrative Director, Chris Gardiner, with more detail:
“The Sovereign Edition will add new stories when your crew is starving. As their desperation grows, you’ll be able to try and eat a variety of unwise, unpleasant or tragic things. By that point, your mascot probably looks quite tasty.”
“We're overhauling the character progression user interface, and introducing a range of new Facets to define your captain's past. Perhaps you lost your soul (and found it again), or attended a seance. Perhaps you have a hobby, or are close to rats, Devils, spies or Rubbery Men. Experienced captains will be able to continue to raise their stats even after reaching the level cap, extending the late game experience.”
“We’ve made significant changes for the console versions to enable smooth and intuitive play using a controller. And there'll also be new opportunities for traders to exploit, and a new exotic engine to acquire, which skilled players in particular may find rewarding. It's a big, exciting update which we like to imagine will be the jewel in Sunless Skies' crown.”
Exciting news for Sunless Sea fans, too!
Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is already available for PS4; later in 2020 it will join Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition on Xbox One and Switch.
All of these ports are being developed in conjunction with Nephilim Game Studios, and will be published by Digerati.
We hope you're equally as excited about this news as we are!
The Skies are yours,
Failbetter Games
See you at PAX West!
We're delighted that Sunless Skies has been chosen as one of the ten best indie games of the year by the mysterious and influential PAX 10 panel!
It's a huge honour to be selected, and it means that we're able to make a rare US event appearance at PAX West in Seattle, from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September.
We'll have as many pin badges as we can cram into our suitcases. Will we see you there?
#loveindies returns in June!
We're delighted to bring you another #loveindies celebration!
#loveindies is a chance for players and developers of indie games to share their favourites with one another, discover some new games to play, and raise up games which deserve more attention.
This year it'll be two weeks long, from the 3rd to the 14th of June in response to the excitement over last year's event. We've also introduced the #loveindies Review Hour, a global push to leave as many reviews on indie games as we can in one hour!
#loveindies is open to all. Here's full participation guide. Feel free to share it with friends, your favourite streamers, or indie developers who might benefit from getting involved.
Thank you as always for your support of our games and those of our fellow indies. It means the world.
As ever, your friends,
Failbetter Games
LudoNarraCon is coming!
We're honoured to be taking part in the first ever LudoNarraCon!
LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, taking place right here on Steam. All the fun of discovering new games without the barriers of access to a physical event!
From 10th to 13th May, developers from across the world will showcase their work in a celebration of interesting and innovative narrative games. This felt like a great idea to us, and we're so pleased to be selected to take part.
We'll be showcasing Sunless Skies with a special pre-recorded stream, featuring interviews with Chris Gardiner (Narrative Director) and Paul Arendt (Art Director). If you want to catch the recording, it's on Tuesday 7th May at 1630 BST, with the incredible Callofcthulhu on Twitch!
You can join in by watching the event live from 10am PT on the dedicated Steam landing page, and by checking out the live streams on the individual games' pages, starting at 11am PT.
Thank you to indie game label Fellow Traveller for inviting us to take part!
Sunless Skies is out now!
Sunless Skies, our follow-up to Sunless Sea, is now available!
Sunless Skies has had, by some way, the best ever critical reception of our games. It's been called “Failbetter’s finest hour” by PC Gamer, “Terrifying and exhilarating” by PCGamesN, “Essential” by Eurogamer and “A triumph” by Gamespot. And at the time of writing we're at 87 on Metacritic, putting us right below a few little known games in their 2019 rankings called, umm, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends, and Resident Evil 2? Needless to say, we’re intensely grateful and delighted.
Sunless Skies is doing very well for us commercially, too. Far better than we needed it to do. We occasionally receive sympathetic enquiries about our financial health from the community; to be clear about that, we're in a very good position, and now we're really looking forward to spending several months further extending and improving Sunless Skies.
If you've yet to take a look, we hope you will.
The skies are yours,
Failbetter Games
The Launch Trailer for Sunless Skies is here!
It's one week until SUNLESS SKIES releases from Early Access!
It's been two years since the Kickstarter for SUNLESS SKIES, and we are so proud of the game that we've made. It's got all of the delicious stories you've come to expect from us, but - hopefully - in a game that's a more well-rounded experience.
If you've just joined us from the Daily Deal: welcome! We hope you're enjoying our deep, dark and marvellous stories. If you would like some help getting started, try the discussion forums here, r/sunlesssea or our lovely Discord.
We remain, your friends,
Failbetter Games
The Sunless Sea Halloween Sale
Get in the spooky spirit this Halloween by voyaging out into a deep, dark zee teeming with misfortune and filled to the brim with zee-beasts! And if you've already confident above the waves, why not try diving to their terrifying depths in the extensive expansion, Zubmariner?
If you’ve been itching to try Sunless Sea, here or on a different platform, now’s your chance!
PS4 (17 - 31 Oct for Europe and 19 Oct - 6 Nov for North America): Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition (30% plus another 10% for PS+ users)
We hope you enjoy zailing, whether its from your desk or your couch! And if you can spare a moment to leave a review, it really helps us reach more people with our games.
SUNLESS SKIES
Our upcoming game, Sunless Skies, is coming out 31 January 2019, too. So if you’d like to swap your ship for a star-sailing steam locomotive you can wishlist the game now on Steam or GOG.
Ever wanted to role play in our universe?
We've just released a free pen and paper RPG. It's called SKYFARER.
SUNLESS SKIES will be released from Early Access on 31 January 2019.
Until then, we remain your friends,
Failbetter Games
Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition out now on PS4!
https://youtu.be/1FR5ydMYnMU
Zailors, it’s with utmost pleasure that we announce Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is out now (yes, right now!) on PlayStation®4 in Europe and (by 8:00am PDT) North America!
Betray your crew, sell your soul to a Devil, marry your sweetheart. Convert your ship to a Zubmarine and go trespassing. Stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity, in a deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets.
Adapting Sunless Sea and Zubmariner to a console came with plenty of unique challenges for our text-heavy RPG in regards to UI and adapting it to a controller. Lesleyann, who worked closely with Blitworks (our porting partner for both PS4 and iPad) to make sure everything felt intuitive for console players, has written up a more in-depth look into the UI/UX changes we’ve made in a dev blog.
And those headed to PAX West this week can find Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition available to demo in the Sony section.
It’s slightly heart-hiccuping to have a game available on console for the first time. We’re so grateful to the PC, Mac and Linux players who have supported us and Sunless Sea. Thank you. We hope the new console players enjoy our words! May each and every PS4 player find a constant companion in the deep.
