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Greetings zailors, We have a patch which addresses some of the issues found with our recent engine version upgrade. We also have some news for players facing specific issues that can’t be directly addressed via patching. Legacy version v2.2.15.3229 A number of you have raised iss
Greetings zailors, Today’s update deals with a pair of longstanding issues. There are no new stories; this is a purely technical update to keep Sunless Sea playable and maintainable for as long as possible. Firstly, we’ve received a number of bug reports in recent times about pla
Hello, delicious friends, Sunless Sea is turning 10 years old on the 6th of February, if you can believe it. And the game that originated the universe, the Zee, and every dreadful thing in it, Fallen London , is now 15! (Anyone making calculations about how old that makes us shou
Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes
Hello, zailors! Quick little update to fix the Steam auto cloud issue that's been bugging many of you. Full notes: Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present The steamcloud_saving.vdf file will be autom
We're delighted to offer Sunless Sea, Zubmariner and Sunless Skies in the World Oceans Day sale this year. If you're already a Sunless Sea player, this is an ideal opportunity to pick up Zubmariner at 50% off in the knowledge that any damage you do to our imagined unterzee-beasts
Today it’s been exactly a year since Mask of the Rose was funded on Kickstarter, and we've just released a demo of the first act, available right now on Steam ! Offering a condensed version of Act I of Mask of the Rose, you’ll be able to explore select locations across Fallen Lon
You may have seen that we Kickstarted a new game in the same universe as Sunless Sea in February this year. Now we're pleased to announce that it has a shiny Steam page ! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel, so somewhat different to Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea. However,
We’re glad to announce that Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will be released very soon, on Wednesday 19th May . This will be the first version of Sunless Skies we release on consoles, and will also be a free major update for everyone here on Steam! This is a greatly enhanced edi
Failbetter Games has successfully returned to Kickstarter to fund Mask of the Rose, a new romantic visual novel set in the studio's expansive Fallen London universe. A detectivey romancey story set just after London's fall, the game features a familiar setting but a new genre for
Failbetter Games, the developer behind the likes of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, has revealed it's currently working on two new titles, one of which is a visual-novel-style prequel to its acclaimed browser game Fallen London. Fallen London, which celebrates its tenth anniversar
For a while now, we’ve been working on a couple of new projects. Today we’re very excited to announce the first of them! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel and prequel to all our other games set in the Fallen London universe. Here’s the trailer: Mask of the Rose takes pl
Surprise! Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is coming out for Switch on 23rd April and XBox One on the 24th! You may have heard that we’ve been working on console ports for Sunless Sea, and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Initially we’d expected Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition t
Fallen London , the browser-based progenitor of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, is celebrating a decade of weirdness and wonderful prose. It's a big achievement given the declining popularity of browser games, and the trickiness in making them profitable. As well as concluding the
If you've played Sunless Sea or Sunless Skies, you might be familiar with Fallen London ! Fallen London is a text-based browser game set in a subterranean city inhabited by Victorian Londoners, talking rats, and people with the faces of squids. In the last decade, it’s grown from
The longest nights of the year are upon us: the perfect time to lose yourself in the dark of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies! (With apologies to the southern hemisphere; they do play equally well in summer.) Sunless Skies has a recent review score of 95% positive, and has been name
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 ow
Alexis Kennedy, co-founder of Failbetter and writer and designer on Fallen London , Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator , has been accused of being an abuser and “well-known predator” by several prominent women in the games industry, including an allegation from a former colleague
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 3
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