Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Sunless Sea
Sunless Sea coming to PlayStation 4 in 2018
Steady your zee-legs, Captain. Sunless Sea is coming to PlayStation 4 in 2018! Our debut console launch will also include its extensive expansion, combining the two into Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition.
https://youtu.be/1FR5ydMYnMU
Enjoy the same deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets, whether you're above the waves or below them.
We’ve partnered with BlitWorks again, who helped us bring Sunless Sea to iPad, and we can’t wait to see what you think of Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition!
Sunless Sea Update V2.2.4.3141: The Blemmigan Gallivanter
We're delighted to let you know that The Blemmigan Gallivanter mascot is now available in Sunless Sea! It is very keen to meet you and cannot wait to explore the great, wide zee from a nest its formed out of your journal pages.
Back in February 2017, you all banded together to help us achieve our Kickstarter goal for Sunless Skies. After many cakes, correspondence sigils, and space shanty verses, we achieved the 25 Social Goal Reward: BLEMMIGANS!
This is not the only blemmigan either - the reward unlocked three blemmigans in total! Expect two more to surface in our other games: The Blemmigan Tourist (Fallen London) and the Blemmigan Voyager (Sunless Skies).
Besides this squishy addition, this update also includes:
Rectified typos
Bug fixes aplenty
We’ve also updated our Unity version and made some backend tech changes that’ll make things easier for us (such as being able to easily change the ad on the game’s title screen). If you’d like a more detailed description of the changes, check out our Patch Notes!
New Region Available in Sunless Skies
Captains of the dark Unterzee, we are excited to announce that a whole new region is available in our upcoming game Sunless Skies! If you are so inclined to trade your vessel for a locomotive, we’d delight in welcoming you to our new region in the skies: Albion.
In celebration, we’ve created a new Albion-focused trailer!
https://youtu.be/oiiRYVtze3Q
Albion is the heart of the British Empire's territory in the High Wilderness; and the only place in the heavens you can reliably get a decent cup of tea. Its hub is London, which has been flung into space by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. She rules it from the Throne of Hours, which allows her some dominion over time itself. We're excited to get to Albion and dig into the engines of the Empire and all its dirty secrets.
The addition of our second region also brings with it:
9 new ports full of stories to explore
12 new Discoveries, some more troublesome than others
6 new Spectacles, a few which are eerily familiar
and 5 new agents, including beasties and locomotives
Prefer to wait until the game is finished? Wishlist Sunless Skies now on Steam or GOG. You can stay up to date on our development progress via the Sunless Skies Roadmap.
Sunless Skies: Now Available on Early Access!
The time has come! Sunless Skies, the sequel to Sunless Sea is now available for Early Access here on Steam and also Games in Development on GOG!
We are delighted to invite you from the depths of the Unterzee to join us in the gusty, undiscovered vaults of the High Wilderness. The stars are dying; they leave behind territories rich in secrets and opportunity.
Explore the Reach—the first, and most verdant, region of Sunless Skies. The Reach is designed to be a small but functional piece of the entire game. Fly a locomotive, engage in combat, experience Terror and Hunger, interact with stories, and die. A lot.
Over the coming months we’ll be adding more stories, more regions, and more complexity to its gameplay—more of everything really. If you’d like an idea of what will be initially available from the 30th August, check out our development blog from yesterday and our FAQ.
Over the past three months, 900 delicious alpha testers have been helping us uncover bugs, but if you’re looking to experience a complete game void of tech issues, we strongly recommend you wait until the game’s full release. However, if you are happy to traverse the High Wilderness first, reporting bugs and sending feedback along the way, then we hope to see you out there Skyfarer!
The feedback we received during Sunless Sea’ Early Access absolutely made it the exceptional game it is today and we can’t wait to see what you think of Sunless Skies.
And, if you’d like to pick up Sunless Sea for iPad, it’ll be on sale in celebration of the Sunless Skies Early Access launch for £6.99 / $6.99 from 30th August - 3rd September!
Thank you for your support through everything, we have the most delicious fans. See you out in space!
Sunless Skies coming to Early Access 30th August!
We're very excited to announce that Sunless Skies, the spiritual sequel to Sunless Sea, will be coming to Steam Early Access and GOG Games in Development the 30th of August!
The feedback we received in Early Access for Sunless Sea was pivotal to its development, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on Sunless Skies over the coming months.
Read the full announcement on the Sunless Skies page.
Sunless Sea is now available on iPad!
We've teamed up with BlitWorks (known for mobile versions of Invisible Inc., Don't Starve, Broken Age and Bastion, among others) for this port,and they’ve done an excellent job of adapting the game’s mechanics for touch controls.
Rediscover Sunless Sea on iPad (the port is a standalone game, so saves will not cross over with PC saves). Choose from two different touch-screen control systems, which you can switch between at any time from the settings menu, and experience the same formidable achievements in Apple’s Game Center.
If you’re interested in cannibalism on the go, Sunless Sea for iPad is available for $9.99 / £9.99 and requires iOS8+ and will be compatible with iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad Air 2 or higher.
P.S. We do not recommend taking the screenshot above as a 'how to' on docking
Help unlock a new Blemmigan in Sunless Sea!
We’ve had an incredible Kickstarter campaign for Sunless Sea’s sequel! We were funded in 4 hours and 200% funded in 4 days. Amazing. Many of those backers are among our Steam players - thank you so much!
Blemmigans! Blemmigans! Blemmigans!
If we reach 25 of the social goals for the Kickstarter campaign, we’ll be releasing new Blemmigans in Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies.
The Blemmigan Gallivanter, a mascot for Sunless Sea
My, what a keen little mushroom! Raring to go, and eager to see every soggy corner of the wide, wide zee. But is it too young to be a zailor? Because you're pretty sure it drew that moustache on itself with a pen.
To help unlock the Blemmigan Gallivanter, contribute to a social goal:
If you're able to join in with the campaign in any way, we appreciate it so much. Thank you for all of your support!
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Play the Pirate Poet and Cladery Heir stories for free!
Pirate Poet and Cladery Heir available now!
As of today’s update, the Pirate Poet and Cladery Heir are available to all players of Sunless Sea as part of the base game, and free of charge!
We consulted with our Kickstarter backers before Christmas and they have graciously said that the more people can play all of the content, the better. Please thank them, their backing made this happen!
The Pirate Poet Captains, beware! The Pirate-Poet now zails the zee, seeking a worthy rival. The pirates of Gaider’s Mourn tell many stories of this clay corsair. Can you be the one to finally best her?
The Cladery Heir A surgeon of such skill that she can amputate flaws of character and excise unwanted foibles…
The Cladery Heir is a new officer with her own storyline - during which you can acquire a new ship, the Cladery Heart. She can be picked up at Fallen London when you have 'A New Recruit' at 1 or more.
Sunless Skies Kickstarter: TOMORROW!
Talking of Kickstarter, hopefully you’ll be well aware that the campaign to fund Sunless Sea’s sequel is beginning tomorrow at 16:00 GMT.
If you have any trouble with our games, email sunless@failbettergames.com to reach support - but please be aware that we are on reduced cover for Christmas. In the meantime, we're sure you'll find the community here (and in r/sunlesssea) very helpful.
Sunless Skies Update
Pre-production work on the sequel to Sunless Sea continues apace! Discover a little more about the setting - the High Wilderness - and how if differs from space, in our latest blog.
Sunless Skies will be coming to Kickstarter on 1 February 2017. We hope you'll come with us beyond the Avid Horizon!
Accessibility Survey
Lastly, if you’d like to help us improve the accessibility of our games, we're currently seeking thoughts in our accessibility survey. We'd love to hear from you if you generally use accessibility settings when playing games.
That's all from us until 2017! Take care at Zee, dear friends, and we'll see you when you return to home waters.
Your friends,
Failbetter Games
Sunless Skies news, hoodies, map posters and Steam Awards!
Friends! We’re bringing you a small additional update this month, containing a few things of interest:
This third and final edition of these beautiful, high-quality prints will be delivered to you in time for Christmas by our friends at Gamers Edition. Orders close at noon GMT on Monday 28 November.
And we also have two new hoodie designs for zeefaring types! One features more Correspondence than is probably wise to have on a garment (bucket of sand not included) and the other warns of the nature of the Zee.
Order from the Failbetter US Store and use code 2016OMG to get 15% off and free standard delivery until 28 November. In the EU store, get 10% off at checkout
from 1–5 December with the code CHRISTMAS16.
Steam Awards
These are happening! Consider nominating Sunless Sea in a category of your choice, or perhaps write in a relevant category (let us know what you went for, if you do).
A happy Thanksgiving to our American zailors! May you not lose your minds and eat your relatives this holiday season.
