Developer: Failbetter Games
Publisher: Failbettre Games
Release: January 31, 2019 (early access since 2017)
On: Windows, OSX, Linux
From: Steam, GOG, Humble
Price: 19, $25, 23
Sunless Skies, the cosmic horror, spacefaring roguelite, splits my brain like a log beneath an axe.
On the one hand, a certain ennui – I have seen all this before, I have made these long, fraught voyages before, many times, in its fine predecessor Sunless Sea.
On the other, late at night my thoughts drift, unbidden, back to its dark places, its lonely ports and clockwork suns and frozen voids. Places that left impressions, places that told me unsettling stories and implied many more stories still.
I don’t want to do it all over again. I don’t want anything except to do it all again.