Sunless Sea

Sunless Sea
Developer(s)Failbetter Games
Publisher(s)Failbetter Games
Director(s)Alexis Kennedy
Programmer(s)Liam Welton
Artist(s)Paul Arendt
Writer(s)
Composer(s)Maribeth Solomon
Brent Barkman[1]
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Linux, Windows, OS X, iOS, PlayStation 4,[2] Nintendo Switch, Xbox One[3]
Release
  • Windows
  • 6 February 2015
  • PlayStation 4
  • 28 August 2018
  • Nintendo Switch
  • 23 April 2020
  • Xbox One
  • 24 April 2020
Genre(s)Roguelike
Mode(s)Single-player

Sunless Sea is a survival/exploration role-playing video game with roguelike elements developed by Failbetter Games. The game was released on 6 February 2015 for Windows and OS X following a successful Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the project. The game takes place in the universe of Failbetter's browser adventure game Fallen London, in which Victorian-era London has been moved beneath the Earth's surface to the edge of the Unterzee, a vast underground ocean. On 11 October 2016, the game's first downloadable content Zubmariner was released, which allows players to explore beneath the surface of the "zee".[4] A sequel, Sunless Skies, was announced in September 2016.[5] It surpassed its funding goals on Kickstarter and was released on 31 January 2019.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Sunless Sea - Official Soundtrack". www.failbettergames.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  2. ^ Wales, Matt (1 August 2018). "Narrative-heavy nautical rogue-like Sunless Sea is coming to PS4". Eurogamer.
  3. ^ "Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition coming to Switch on April 23, Xbox One on April 24". Gematsu. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference zubmariner_release was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Lovington, Christopher (25 September 2016). "Failbetter Games announces sequel to Sunless Sea called Sunless Skies". PC Gamer. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Sunless Skies - the sequel to Sunless Sea". Kickstarter. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference failbetter eleutheria was invoked but never defined (see the help page).