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SUNLESS SEA SUNLESS SEA Community Hub Install Steam login | language STORE COMMUNITY ABOUT SUPPORT Featured Items Games Software Hardware Demos News For You search the store All Games > RPG Games > SUNLESS SEA SUNLESS SEA Community Hub You will need to Install the latest Flash plugin to view this page properly. LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award- winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London. User reviews: Very Positive (1,337 reviews) Release Date: 6 Feb, 2015 Popular user-defined tags for this product: + Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as not interested Buy Sunless Sea Share Embed DAILY DEAL! Offer ends in 32:32:12 18,99€ -40% 11,39€ Add to Cart Single-player Steam Achievements Recommended By Curators View all (12) Languages: "A narratively driven rogue-lite, perhaps a more story-driven FTL? Interface Full Audio Subtitles Whatever the case the world is fascinating and the writing sublime and funny." English Read the full review here. 81/100 View all (37) Recent updates Read Critic Reviews 11 June 28 May Welcome new captains | Fallen London comes to Includes 30 Steam Achievements New content! iOS in 2015 View Hello, and welcome to new captains! You’ll know Fallen London as the browser all 30 game which spawned Sunless Sea, and the Many of you have joined us from the Steam whole universe of the Neath. Summer Sale - happy zailing! Fallen London now contains over 1.2 million NEW CONTENT words of stories - five times as much content Title: SUNLESS SEA as Sunless Sea - described by Rock, Paper, Genre: Adventure, Indie, RPG RAE AsnDi pMpOeRtE of cannibal-centric conten9t c roemvmeaenlsts RSEhAoDt gMuOnR aEs 'the best words in all of1 g0 acmominmge'n. ts Developer: Failbetter Games a little more about the Chapel of Lights, the Publisher: Failbetter Games Smiling Priest's faith, and where all those And now, we’re bringing it to iOS. Release Date: 6 Feb, 2015 Rcaenvdlieesw cosme from. It raises as many questions as it answers; and it doesn't end We've been working on this in the Visit the website w“Seulnl.le ss Sea's method of storytelling isn't unique, but it hbaasc nkegvreoru bnede nfo rre amliasendy wmitohn stuhcsh, iamnpda cwt iallnd elegance.” continue working on it alongside Zubmariner, View update history D10IS/1C0U –S SEu SroUgNaLmEeSrS SEA the forthcoming Sunless Sea expansion. Read related news “Absolutely the best writing in any video game since, well, as long as I can remember.” Outside of the forums here on Steam, you We’re excited to have a behemoth of the View discussions c1a0n/1 f0i n–d P CmGoarme eSsuNn less Sea communities: industry acting as design consultant: Jason Kapalka, creator of Bejeweled and co-founder Find Community Groups F“aa ivlbereyt tceorm Fpoerlulinmgs a nd satisfying adventure... The realmo off Ppospscibaipli,t iwesh soe eism as beingd lfeasns ,o afn Fda elvleenry L toimnde oI nse. t Fsaicl eI bfinodo kso mething new.” T9/w10it t–e Dr estructoid We're developing for iOS first, and we're Sunless Sea subreddit hopeful that Android will follow if the iOS version is a success. AThbeoreu'st a Tlsoh ais s uGbaremddeit for Fallen London. Fallen London is the browser game that Like the browser experience, the app will be iLnOspSiEre YdO SUuRn lMesIsN SDe. aE. AT YOUR CREW. DIE. free to play, using in-app purchases for premium stories, more actions and other TYaokue c athne m heeelmt a cotfi vyeo pulra syteeras mons hailpl oafn tdh esseet sail forp ethrkes .u Int kwniollw synn! cS uwniltehs psl aSyeear sis’ eax gisatimnge Foafllen dpliastcfoovrmersy f,o lro snoeclinale ascst aionnds farnedq ugeamnte dpelaayth, set in Ltohned aown acrhda-rwacintenrisn,g a nVdic stuoprpiaonrt G oofftlhinice play. tips. universe of Fallen London. Meanwhile, if you want to whet your appetite SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE for undersea adventure, there’s a whole If the giant crabs, sentient icebergs and swarmsb uonf cbha otsf Zduobnm’ta griente yr ocoun, cmeapdt naerts os na nardt cTahnen Oibfafilcisiaml S coeurntaditnralyc kw fiella. tBuurets t ehxatte onldde dblack ocedairne cbteocrk Poanusl ,A arnedn dtth’se rtuem’s blolro...t for the brave saondu lrse wmhaost edraerde ttroac skasi lf rhoemr. Sunless Sea guaranteed to inspire reveries for captains Your friends, lost. FBG Betray your crew, sell your soul to a Devil, marry your sweetheart. Survive long enough Aanvadi lyaoblue’ lol na cAhmieavzeo ny oMuurs liicf,e G’so aomglbe iPtiloayn,. READ MORE iTunes and Bandcamp. You will die, but your legacy will live on… Saymsptle mth eR seouqnuditraecmk feonr ftrsee on Bandcamp Key features YoWurin ddeolwicsious fMraiecn OdSs ,X FaiAlb edtetepr ,G caommepselling world packed with 200,000+ words of stories and secrets. Find your MINfaIMtUhMer: ’ s bones. Determine London’s destiny. Defy the gods of the deep sea. OS: Windows XP or later Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog- Processor: 2Ghz or better shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE. Memory: 1 GB RAM GraYpohuicrs :c a1p2t8a0ixn7 6w8il ml diniiem. uBmu tr eysooluu tcioann, Dpiarescst Xo n9 .r0ecs cooumrpcaetsib fler ogmrap ohnices cgaerdn eration to the next. DireAcctqX:u iVree rasi ofan m9.i0lyc home and a hoard of heirlooms. Build up your own story across generations of zailors who braved the sea and lost - or won... Hard Drive: 700 MB available space SouRneda Cl-atridm: eD icreocmtXb 9a.t0 ca cgoaminpsat ibslheips and Zee-beasts, spider-crewed dreadnoughts and sentient icebergs. Sunless Sea and Fallen London are (c) 2010-2015 Failbetter Games Limited. All Rights Reserved. Light and dark, terror and madness: stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity. MUoprger alidkee y tohuirs steamship with powerful engines, cannons and pneumatic torpedo guSnese .all (Or buy a bigger, better ship.) Hire unique officers like the Haunted Doctor and the Irrepressible Cannoneer. Each has a story to tell, if you can draw it out of them. Choose a ship’s mascot: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, Darkwood Amnesia: The Dark Desce… Eldritch 1a3n,d9 9m€ore! -40% 17,49€ 10,49€ -87% 11,99€ 1,55€ Trade or smuggle silk and souls, mushroom wine and hallucinogenic honey. Helpful customer reviews About Reviews FILTER: Helpful Recent Positive (1,136) Negative (201) Funny 2,930 of 3,078 people (95%) found this review helpful 116 647 people found this review funny JavaDevil Recommended 65 products in account 43.9 hrs on record 10 reviews Posted: 7 February My crew attempted a mutiny, upset and frightened from being out at sea for too long. When their mutiny failed, I sailed them back to London. Once home was in sight, and they gathered at the rails to sing praise, I promptly turned the ship around and sailed it in a circle. And then another circle, this one wider. Then, a third circle, this one smaller. No one commits mutiny on my vessel. Time moved swiftly as the circles continued. My crew only had a faint understanding of what punishments were in store for them as I spent the night in my cabin, fornicating with our surgeon. Around and around and around we sailed. It soon dawned on them what was happening when the nightmares came, when the food and supplies began running low. Once the food was gone, the madness came quick; the frightened tears, quicker. One member wanted to kill herself, but I wouldn't allow it. Another begged me to stop the endless circles, so I sailed them faster, sloppier. Once, I sailed close to a zee-beast. It swam away, wanting no part in the theatre of suffering I was producing. An entire meal, the crew's last hope of staving off death by starvation, had gone. Only the circles remained. If they wanted to live, they had to eat. Keeping their humanity was no longer an option. They knew what little choice they had, and what little they could do to control it. Out of food, cannibalism quickly took hold on the decks. Crew members butchered and ate each other after yet another failed mutiny. And back in my cabin, all I could do was muse with my sultry lady in lilac, the crewmembers' wails of grief a very, very potent aphrodisiac for more fornication. We sailed, ate, sailed again. The rhythm never broke. A circle without end. Soon I took part in the feasting of a brazen zailor who tried to shoot me and failed spectacularly in doing so. The few remaining crew and I ate him and we said nothing of the incident. They knew better. The silence was terrible for them, and it pleased me. Nearby, a cargo vessel sailed past us without pause. You could almost smell the bounty of food and fuel aboard it. They never knew what we were doing, or what we've become, circling without end. Then, they were gone, and my remaining crew came undone. I shot a crewman who attempted to abandon ship, and I tossed his body overboard. I did nothing as another member leapt overboard soon after, only to be swallowed by the waves, screaming about Salt's curse being set upon us. I dined with the lady in lilac again as the second to last crewman wept and succumbed in his sleep to nightmares, alone and misbegotten. I believe his corpse is still decomposing in its spot, somewhere in the dark in the lowest corner of my vessel, the Unsinkable II.
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