SUNLESS SEA news & patch notes

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 should probably just let that thought wink out like a false-star.) In celebration, Fallen London is getting a major adaptation for tabletop roleplaying, developed by Magpie Games. Magpie are the team behind Root, Avatar Legends, Urban Shadows, Bluebeard's Bride and many more wonderful games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/35dce1558f6abc676045aa7c5315e40055b3030b.png We hope this development will excite those of you who have asked us down the years if we could create a TTRPG system for this world. The initial project is to create the core rulebook and a supplement for London, with the dream being to follow that up with a Sunless Sea module, should everything work out well. We hope you'll take a look, and that this will enable you to have further adventures in the Neath, this time working together with your friends in pursuit of a grand, world-changing ambition. Cannibalism is not guaranteed, but can never be fully discounted when improvising a story with friends! The Kickstarter starts on the 11th of February, and you can follow it now to get a notification when it goes live.

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 automatically deleted when loading the game through non-Steam clients
• Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies
• Lots of typo and grammatical fixes

Happy zailing!

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 can be metaphorically offset by our contribution to WDC. We'll be donating 30% of our net profits from the sale event to WDC to support their conservation work.* {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/d08852b4406a3dc0c8d2469da7ab1e3c821b1f37.jpg WDC is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins. WDC defends these remarkable creatures against the many threats they face by fighting to stop whaling, end captivity, prevent accidental entanglement and deaths in nets and create healthy seas. They also advocate for the vital role that whales and dolphins play in fighting climate change and keeping our planet healthy. Their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free. If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://uk.whales.org/ You can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/OceansDaySteamSale Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! *30% of our net developer revenue from this sale will support Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705)

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/ffc05f0b301257678331764af25cd74d2bb5e6f6.png Offering a condensed version of Act I of Mask of the Rose, you’ll be able to explore select locations across Fallen London, introduce yourself to some key characters and encounter Mr Pages, one of the mysterious new Masters who have recently taken over London, in its office at the Bazaar. At the opening of Mask of the Rose, Mr Pages has employed your housemate, Griz, who has in turn found a few pennies’ work for you as census taker. The census goes some way beyond the expected (Surface census forms never did ask if anyone in the residence was in love), so you’ll need to approach conversations with care to find out all you need to know. Demo Feedback We're really excited to know what you think about exploring Fallen London from this perspective for the first time. The very best places to talk about it will be the Steam discussion forums for Mask of the Rose, or if you want to join one of our community spaces, there's Discord, our forums, and the Fallen London subreddit. There are a few things it’ll be useful to know before you send feedback:

• In the final game there will be a text log, so you can scroll back through conversations
• There will also be audio sliders under Settings
• And of course, there will be saving in the finished game (the final version of Act I will be fleshed out from this version, so carrying choices over wouldn’t be possible).

Spotted a bug? The demo has been through our internal testing, but if you see any bugs or typos we missed, please let us know by emailing [email protected], attaching your player log. Here are some instructions to help you find your player log. We will probably only update the demo if something pretty bad has slipped through, but this will let us fix everything before we release the full game. Thank you! Release Date News We have also announced that Mask of the Rose will release in Oct/Nov this year. Hopefully this taste will keep you going until then! As ever, your friends, Failbetter Games

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/8d4473b05d0a342fc1187cad948735af76c53f83.png Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel, so somewhat different to Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea. However, it's set in the same universe, and brings all of our expertise in writing deep, surprising, meaningful stories, this time on a more personal level. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/470e3fb4e375fdb6c763029dd24a2743b9ccf463.png Thanks to an unknown bargain, London now resides in a vast cavern under the earth. Down here, the sun doesn't shine, and Parliament has sunk into the Thames. Queen Victoria never emerges from her palace. Cats spy on their owners and whisper their secrets abroad. The fabric of strait-laced Victorian society has begun to fray. New Masters are in charge. Why are they so… tall? And always cloaked? And why are they so interested in love stories? Even death itself has a twist here: the first murder victim since the Fall is feeling much better, and keen to see justice done. Unfortunately, as the doctor who treated him immediately before he expired, your housemate Archie is the prime suspect... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/6c72be26001619faf754429f96633fe4e6848a2c.png

• (Re)invent yourself: who were you before the Fall? Who will you be now?
• Create outfits from a selection of clothing and unusual accessories to unlock different story options
• Fall in love with a cast of diverse Londoners, each with their own secrets
• Matchmake among your friends, or seek love for yourself (by any definition you like)
• Write love stories in a delightful minigame, and use them to impress the new Masters
• Pick up odd jobs to earn money and gather resources. How are you at rat catching?
• Solve the first murder since the Fall, with the assistance of the victim
• Discover cosy, mysterious and magnificent locations in a dark and delicious version of Victorian London
• Seek deeper and deeper secrets over multiple playthroughs

We hope you'll take a look at Mask of the Rose, and wishlist to find out more about romancing bats!

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! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/73d46eb56bd90aee3e1786f99f8dab82638a77f4.png This is a greatly enhanced edition of Sunless Skies, containing all additions and improvements we’ve made to the game since launch as well as many more completely new ones. Here's a link to the trailer! For the Sovereign Edition, we’ve reworked and extended the starvation mechanics. Captains will now find a range of increasingly dubious gastronomic options available to them as desperation grows. We’ve improved character progression, with a new interface, a greater range of facets to define your past, and even a way for experienced captains to continue improving their capabilities after reaching the level cap. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/f2d5c3ce3451511682e9008b66b89398050fb5ae.png There are also new trading opportunities to exploit, an exotic engine for your locomotive, better performance, greatly improved gamepad support, and literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements. If you’d like to know more, we’ve included a more detailed list below. This ultimately took longer than we’d hoped, partly due to the considerable scope and partly because it turned out to be pretty difficult to achieve the level of performance optimisations we wanted. But all is now well, and we’re very glad to be able to share it with you. We think this will be by far the best version of the game for new players, and we hope the new features and many quality of life improvements will make it exciting for the veteran captains among you, too.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/7b79f9c08ae05edf04af69d0e57555e9604c2dcb.png 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: https://youtu.be/QujJ4oVaFKI Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months after London was stolen by bats. Londoners are still adjusting to life underground. The old street signs are being erased. New ministries and new festivals are being established. The mysterious Masters of the Bazaar seem to be in charge. You share your boarding house with a few other lodgers: Archie, a medical student discovering firsthand that Death works differently here. Griselda, a close aide of the new Masters. Horatia, the landlady with a soft spot for the Neath's native inhabitants. Harjit, the local constable looking for a missing person of his own. As you make a new life below, you may find yourself visiting the underwater ruins of Parliament; intervening in a murder trial where the victim is a witness; or steering a hooded, vocabularious Master through the subtleties of a London courtship. However you choose to live in the Neath, you have your own friendships – and your own heart – to look after. The art of Mask of the Rose draws on Film Noir, Victorian photography and Blitz-era Britain, and is an evolution of the Fallen London universe’s painterly style, keeping the atmosphere of the original but with more detail and depth. If you’re a fan of the Fallen London universe, Mask of the Rose offers a glimpse of events we’ve never shown before, as part of a more personal story. You will get to explore the origins of beloved characters and institutions, as well as encounter brand new mysteries. Mask of the Rose is also an excellent introduction for players just getting started with the Fallen London universe. We’ll be running a Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose in February 2021 - sign up on our Kickstarter page to be notified when the campaign goes live, and join our Discord or forums to discuss the announcement!

What about Sunless Skies Sovereign Edition?

With our porting partner, we’ve submitted builds for certification on all three console platforms. This is the process in which Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft sign off on them as ready for release. We don’t know exactly how long it will take, and it’s common for certification to throw up a few issues, but this puts us in striking distance of a release! Much of the work on the console editions is being done by an external team who’re much more experienced with porting games than we are. We're looking forward to being able to share the fixes and performance improvements they've made with you!

New projects, plural?

That’s right! We’re working on two new projects. We can’t tell you much about the other yet, but we can say that its game mechanics are very different from our past work, and that it takes place in a new setting. Sign up via Kickstarter to be informed as soon as the Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose goes live.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2da891519e90db186ed3321018178e7cf8b21f64.jpg 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 to release for PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox One first, with Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition following. Schedules on both projects have moved around a bit, meaning the release dates are now as follows:

• Sunless Sea comes to Switch on 23rd April
• Sunless Sea comes to Xbox on the 24th
• Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition comes to PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox in August/September

We'll have more to share about the Sovereign Edition for Sunless Skies as work continues, but we hope that for now, the opportunity to return to or discover Sunless Sea is an enticing one. See you in the dark, Your friends, Failbetter Games Note: Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is already available on PS4 and Sunless Sea is available for iPad.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/61191a447a1cedc0f12928698adbb152fe4817a3.png 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 a handful of stories to a 2.5-million word epic with tens of thousands of monthly players. We’d like to think that it’s remained popular for the kinds of stories we offer. Not just the weird, inventively horrifying world, but the fact that you get to act on fantastically bad ideas, from publishing horrendous poetry to feeding your soul to a cat. To hear more about the celebrations we have in store for Fallen London's 10th birthday, follow us on Twitter or join our Discord.

Storridge's Definitely Umarked Playing Cards

In honour of our 10th birthday, we've produced some gorgeous, special edition merchandise with Gametee: Storridge's Definitely Unmarked Playing Cards! Perfect for long zee or High Wilderness voyages. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/182c812423510f7bce7c851ab58e062cb2ed3fef.jpg

Sovereign

We're also busy working on the Sovereign update to Sunless Skies, which will be launched across PC and console. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/807200aede1abda3b4585c3ef1f5efc93d354679.png Sovereign will feature new starvation content, trading opportunities and facets, along with a redesign of the character progression interface. It will introduce a new exotic engine, the ability to continue to raise stats after reaching the level cap and an equipment stat rebalance. Along with fixes for outstanding bugs, performance improvements and a number of quality of life updates, it will feature a redesigned control scheme and interfaces optimised for controller support, plus a fancy radial to make UI navigation more intuitive.

Sunless Skies Patch Notes

• The correct category can now always be selected when submitting bug reports.
• High Wilderness inhabitants and other locomotives will now keep more distance from ports and relays.
• Curators, Logoi and Eaters of the Dead are less unrelenting in their pursuit.
• Various small adjustments have been made to ambient messages.
• The bug report interface now includes a link to the troubleshooting guide.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/1860dee8b3cffae12467098f0ff56f8cc9a0fc8f.jpg 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 named a game of the year by The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Yorker, Kotaku AU, Paste and Slant. It's 50% off in the sale! Sunless Sea is also 95% positive, with 66% off in the sale, and its expansion Zubmariner is also reduced, by 60% - it really completes the experience, so we hope you'll give it a go.

Celebrating 10 Years of Fallen London

The browser game that started it all! Fallen London, the internet's finest text-based Victorian alternative history roleplaying game is going to be ten years old on the 11th of January. In celebration, there'll be a lot of events in-game, and competitions and other diversions for our community! For starters, we've collaborated with the wonderful GameTee to produce some special edition merchandise: Storridge's Definitely Unmarked Deck of Playing Cards. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/182c812423510f7bce7c851ab58e062cb2ed3fef.jpg A true collector's item, these cards are equally at home in your parlour, at Zee or to pass the time in the Skies. If you'd like to get more involved with our birthday plans, and future plans beyond that, you'd be most welcome in our official Discord. Thank you for a phenomenal 2019. We'll see you in January! The Skies are yours, Failbetter Games

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/807200aede1abda3b4585c3ef1f5efc93d354679.png 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 own the game on PC will receive the Sovereign Edition for free. It's been a great year for Sunless Skies, thanks to your support, and we're delighted to be able to celebrate it with this enhanced edition.

What's new in the Sovereign Edition?

Here's our Narrative Director, Chris Gardiner, with more detail: “The Sovereign Edition will add new stories when your crew is starving. As their desperation grows, you’ll be able to try and eat a variety of unwise, unpleasant or tragic things. By that point, your mascot probably looks quite tasty.” “We're overhauling the character progression user interface, and introducing a range of new Facets to define your captain's past. Perhaps you lost your soul (and found it again), or attended a seance. Perhaps you have a hobby, or are close to rats, Devils, spies or Rubbery Men. Experienced captains will be able to continue to raise their stats even after reaching the level cap, extending the late game experience.” “We’ve made significant changes for the console versions to enable smooth and intuitive play using a controller. And there'll also be new opportunities for traders to exploit, and a new exotic engine to acquire, which skilled players in particular may find rewarding. It's a big, exciting update which we like to imagine will be the jewel in Sunless Skies' crown.”

Exciting news for Sunless Sea fans, too!

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is already available for PS4; later in 2020 it will join Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition on Xbox One and Switch. All of these ports are being developed in conjunction with Nephilim Game Studios, and will be published by Digerati. We hope you're equally as excited about this news as we are! The Skies are yours, Failbetter Games

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2d844d3cbc8a4782d36d1c16cab7dfede44e3a27.png 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 30th of August to the 2nd of September. We'll have as many pin badges as we can cram into our suitcases. Will we see you there?

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/30f1ed60ed0ade4d9f2abfade174660d8b5a9457.png We're delighted to bring you another #loveindies celebration! #loveindies is a chance for players and developers of indie games to share their favourites with one another, discover some new games to play, and raise up games which deserve more attention. This year it'll be two weeks long, from the 3rd to the 14th of June in response to the excitement over last year's event. We've also introduced the #loveindies Review Hour, a global push to leave as many reviews on indie games as we can in one hour! #loveindies is open to all. Here's full participation guide. Feel free to share it with friends, your favourite streamers, or indie developers who might benefit from getting involved. Thank you as always for your support of our games and those of our fellow indies. It means the world. As ever, your friends, Failbetter Games

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/8f347b8ecd7ce7880a2ad550846ef5186f4bbe39.png We're honoured to be taking part in the first ever LudoNarraCon! LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, taking place right here on Steam. All the fun of discovering new games without the barriers of access to a physical event! From 10th to 13th May, developers from across the world will showcase their work in a celebration of interesting and innovative narrative games. This felt like a great idea to us, and we're so pleased to be selected to take part. We'll be showcasing Sunless Skies with a special pre-recorded stream, featuring interviews with Chris Gardiner (Narrative Director) and Paul Arendt (Art Director). If you want to catch the recording, it's on Tuesday 7th May at 1630 BST, with the incredible Callofcthulhu on Twitch! You can join in by watching the event live from 10am PT on the dedicated Steam landing page, and by checking out the live streams on the individual games' pages, starting at 11am PT. Thank you to indie game label Fellow Traveller for inviting us to take part!

Sunless Skies, our follow-up to Sunless Sea, is now available! Sunless Skies has had, by some way, the best ever critical reception of our games. It's been called “Failbetter’s finest hour” by PC Gamer, “Terrifying and exhilarating” by PCGamesN, “Essential” by Eurogamer and “A triumph” by Gamespot. And at the time of writing we're at 87 on Metacritic, putting us right below a few little known games in their 2019 rankings called, umm, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends, and Resident Evil 2? Needless to say, we’re intensely grateful and delighted. Sunless Skies is doing very well for us commercially, too. Far better than we needed it to do. We occasionally receive sympathetic enquiries about our financial health from the community; to be clear about that, we're in a very good position, and now we're really looking forward to spending several months further extending and improving Sunless Skies. If you've yet to take a look, we hope you will. The skies are yours, Failbetter Games

It's one week until SUNLESS SKIES releases from Early Access! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/be08df1bbc653d1430c1ece0591da849c53fdf2c.png Discover what awaits you in the High Wilderness in the new launch trailer It's been two years since the Kickstarter for SUNLESS SKIES, and we are so proud of the game that we've made. It's got all of the delicious stories you've come to expect from us, but - hopefully - in a game that's a more well-rounded experience. Find out more about SUNLESS SKIES on its Steam page! We hope you'll join us, and can't wait to hear what you think. See you in the Heavens, Failbetter Games

Hello, delicious friends. You might remember we've been working on a follow-up to Sunless Sea. It's due out in two weeks, and we're so excited to see what you think! Take a look at Sunless Skies! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/f13868421bef97768b63bfbe174ef6878d03ab9c.gif If you've just joined us from the Daily Deal: welcome! We hope you're enjoying our deep, dark and marvellous stories. If you would like some help getting started, try the discussion forums here, r/sunlesssea or our lovely Discord. We remain, your friends, Failbetter Games

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/e6ebcf0395dfc5e0b6a7338f74e0285febec11c6.png Get in the spooky spirit this Halloween by voyaging out into a deep, dark zee teeming with misfortune and filled to the brim with zee-beasts! And if you've already confident above the waves, why not try diving to their terrifying depths in the extensive expansion, Zubmariner? If you’ve been itching to try Sunless Sea, here or on a different platform, now’s your chance! Steam (29 Oct - 1 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%) GOG (29 Oct - 5 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%) iPad (29 Oct - 5 Nov): Sunless Sea (30%) PS4 (17 - 31 Oct for Europe and 19 Oct - 6 Nov for North America): Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition (30% plus another 10% for PS+ users) We hope you enjoy zailing, whether its from your desk or your couch! And if you can spare a moment to leave a review, it really helps us reach more people with our games.

SUNLESS SKIES

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/f13868421bef97768b63bfbe174ef6878d03ab9c.gif Our upcoming game, Sunless Skies, is coming out 31 January 2019, too. So if you’d like to swap your ship for a star-sailing steam locomotive you can wishlist the game now on Steam or GOG.

We've just released a free pen and paper RPG. It's called SKYFARER. We made it for you. We hope you like it. Find out more Download a copy SUNLESS SKIES will be released from Early Access on 31 January 2019. Until then, we remain your friends, Failbetter Games

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/7018a6082f6ed7672391f2dfa7853ee2eb25dd4e.jpg https://youtu.be/1FR5ydMYnMU Zailors, it’s with utmost pleasure that we announce Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is out now (yes, right now!) on PlayStation®4 in Europe and (by 8:00am PDT) North America! Betray your crew, sell your soul to a Devil, marry your sweetheart. Convert your ship to a Zubmarine and go trespassing. Stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity, in a deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/76d116b326064358ccf5d437b93efb2ccba53267.gif Adapting Sunless Sea and Zubmariner to a console came with plenty of unique challenges for our text-heavy RPG in regards to UI and adapting it to a controller. Lesleyann, who worked closely with Blitworks (our porting partner for both PS4 and iPad) to make sure everything felt intuitive for console players, has written up a more in-depth look into the UI/UX changes we’ve made in a dev blog. Still have questions? Check out our FAQ. And those headed to PAX West this week can find Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition available to demo in the Sony section. It’s slightly heart-hiccuping to have a game available on console for the first time. We’re so grateful to the PC, Mac and Linux players who have supported us and Sunless Sea. Thank you. We hope the new console players enjoy our words! May each and every PS4 player find a constant companion in the deep.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/7018a6082f6ed7672391f2dfa7853ee2eb25dd4e.jpg 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! We've also just added a new region, Eleutheria, to our upcoming game Sunless Skies. Check out its trailer for a glimpse at what the region has in store. https://youtu.be/n4PltluDCDY

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. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/b35ae16856707b9497ffbe2d1bc5c633d15b9d52.png 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!

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.

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.

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/40f8cb43ad89ed5479c0786000317608e477eac5.png 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!

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/40f8cb43ad89ed5479c0786000317608e477eac5.png 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!

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28053189/ae78a9a01475f933b7e688f5acbe685c5b7bdb6a.gif 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.

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28053189/ae78a9a01475f933b7e688f5acbe685c5b7bdb6a.gif 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.