SUNLESS SKIES

Release Date: 2019-01-31

Developer: Failbetter Games

Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

Price: 18.99

Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.Command a flying steam locomotiveThe only thing between you and the waste-winds storms and cosmic lightning is your engine. Tend and upgrade it buy weaponry and exotic equipment and keep her hull in good shape to hold the hostile Heavens at bay.Explore a unique and dangerous universeYou play the captain of a locomotive a steam engine fitted for off-rail travel: sailing the stars leading your crew into trouble and out of their minds. Smuggle souls barter for crates of time stop for cricket and a cup of tea. Discover more of the deep dark and marvellous Fallen London Universe as seen in our previous game SUNLESS SEA. (You can play either game first the stories coexist happily.)Fight her majestys agents pirates and abominations of the skiesFace ships of differing factions and unknowable beasts each with different attacks and agendas.Survive starvation madness and terror. Manage your crews condition and your captains nightmares. Balance fuel and supplies against your desire for new horizons knowledge or riches. Struggle with sights never meant for human eyes. How will the dark change you?Recruit officers on your adventures Populate your ship with unique upgradeable officers each with their own quest to fulfill: an incautious driver an incognito princess a repentant devil and - dear god! - your Aunt?! How did she get out here?Discover your captains past through narrative levelling Reveal your captains past deeds as facets of their personality as you progress. Most captains will perish but their actions will leave a mark on the world for their descendants - for better or worse. Pass on some effects and return anew to deal with events that your previous captain put into motion.THE WORLDThe High Wilderness is a wondrous vision of space: shifting wind-swept ruins where the laws of the cosmos are not as we imagined.The stars are alive. They are the Judgements: vast intelligences that govern all things. But they are dying. One by one something is snuffing them out leaving their thrones empty. Unfettered by trivial things like gravity the Victorian Empire have pushed their tendrils into this new world and their ambition is savage. They have built a new Sun. The Empress Victoria reigns from the Throne of Hours which gives her control over time.Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. Will you support her majesty and the establishment or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds? FEATURESMultiple intertwining stories with a depth and richness unlike anything else in games inspired by CS Lewis Jules Verne Lovecraft and HG WellsLush hand-drawn 2d art to matchFour giant regions to explore: celestial wilderness impossible industrial empire pagan midnight expanse and the mysterious Blue Kingdom.A choice of play styles: build a lineage of captains as each dies or reload your most recent captain and continue Key remapping and full controller supportWho are Failbetter Games?Were a boutique games studio based in London UK. Weve been making indie games since 2009. If youve read this far this game is almost certainly for you. Come with us into the dark delicious friend.