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We’re Failbetter Games, makers of Sunless Skies, Sunless Sea and Fallen London. We’re known for inventive narrative design and rich, atmospheric storytelling. We’re looking for a part-time Junior Editor for our game Fallen London, working around 21 hours a week with flexible scheduling – we can adjust the exact number of hours based on your […]

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. Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months […]

There’s one more week to apply for our upcoming Traineeship in Games Writing for Black candidates – the deadline is 9AM BST, Friday 9th October. Full details here. When you submit your application, we recommend double checking that you’ve given us the necessary permissions on the Google Doc that you’ve shared with us. Make sure […]

We’ve had a fantastic response so far to the traineeship we announced yesterday. We’ve also had a number of responses that while predictable are still disappointing, and confirm the need for the kind of opportunity we’re offering. There are claims that what we are doing – offering a paid traineeship to Black candidates – is […]

Applications for this traineeship have now closed. Out of fairness to other candidates, we are unable to consider any further applications. We will announce future opportunities on this blog. Failbetter Games is offering a paid traineeship in game writing, running November 2 to December 11, for Black candidates. What we’re looking for We are looking for […]

Update: applications for this position are now closed. We’re Failbetter Games, makers of Sunless Skies, Sunless Sea and Fallen London. We’re known for inventive narrative design and rich, atmospheric storytelling. We’re looking for an experienced writer and narrative designer to join our award-winning in-house writing team. Duties of this role include: Pitching story arcs and […]

We are planning on running a charitable event to coincide with the release of our next game, SUNLESS SKIES, in early 2019. We wanted the choice of charity beneficiary to reflect our values and the values of our community, so we asked you to nominate charities that were important to you. We were very touched […]

After careful consideration we’ve decided to close the Fallen London app on both iOS and Android. This will happen in stages: On 26th February, it’ll be removed from the App Store and Google Play store On 23rd March we will remove the option to purchase anything within the app (ie. Fate, Exceptional Friendship etc.). And […]

2017 was a mixed bag for us. We’ve come out of it a changed company, and we have some things to update you on. Sunless Skies After the remarkable high of the Kickstarter, the response to Sunless Skies in Early Access hasn’t met the level of Sunless Sea in terms of sales. It sold about […]

Hi all! It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post here – I got really busy. Turns out these games don’t make themselves! I’ve been particularly busy recently as, with sadness, today is my last day at Failbetter Games. I’ve spent the last two months handing over and making sure Sunless Skies […]