Failbetter Games has announced that Sunless Skies, its intergalactic follow-up to 2015's nautical exploration adventure Sunless Sea, will now launch in January 2019.
Sunless Skies was originally expected to leave Steam early access development in May 2018, but that initial launch date was pushed back to September following poorer-than-expected sales and layoffs at the studio earlier this year - problems that Eurogamer had been alerted to well in advance of Failbetter's public announcement.
Writing in its latest development update, Failbetter explained that it has chosen to delay the game a second time for two reasons. Firstly, it says it wants to revisit Sunless Skies' survival mechanics, as well as the Reach - one of the earliest areas created for the game.