Navigate, survive, explore! Roam a vast underground ocean in a customised steamship. Trade with strange new lands. Battle sea monsters. Smuggle souls. Seduce your crew. Go mad and hallucinate lizards. You are the captain. It’s your call…
Thirty years ago, London was stolen. Now it rests on the shore of the Unterzee, that old dark ocean under the world. Hell is close, immortality is cheap, and the screaming has largely stopped…
Purveyors of only the finest examples of interactive narrative – Failbetter are an independent games studio, creating games and stories mostly set in the Fallen London Universe. At present there’s Fallen London itself, a highly acclaimed Victorian fantasy RPG set in a unique subterranean city, and Sunless Sea, an exploration and trading game set in a vast underground ocean of the same world.
Whoof! What a month! On 1st July, we launched Sunless Sea in Early Access on Steam. It did, by the standards of an indie studio’s debut videogame, really very well. This was great – and thank you all for your support – but it also meant we spent weeks struggling to deal with support issues, […]
Failbetter is looking for someone who can take on some of the production, communications and marketing tasks that currently get shared around the team: live operations, troubleshooting and resource management, game producer tasks, relationships with partners / press /distributors / Youtubers, recruitment.
[This is a guest post by Meghann O'Neill, who wrote the dynamically generated combat music for Sunless Sea.] Hi, My name is Meghann, or you may know me from Failbetter’s forums as Firky; after Firkraag, the red dragon in Baldur’s Gate 2.
Sunless Sea's Emerald update is live: map shuffling, Salt Lions and the Sea of Autumns, nameable ships, smarter bats. http://t.co/qzsOFeFvKQ
"This place is positively drenched in death..." Kotaku explores Sunless Sea: http://t.co/txTJqp4Fka
The Verge on Sunless Sea and Fallen London: "A wonderful update to the original game": http://t.co/0x28bIKvb6
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