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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? Sunless Sea is now on more platforms than ever before, […]

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. 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 […]

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. Back in February 2017, you all banded together to help us achieve […]

Thanks for supporting Zubmariner in the last few weeks. It’s been really exciting to see people’s reactions – sometimes live in streams, which we will never get tired of! Your ratings and reviews mean so much to us, so an extra thank you if you’ve managed to leave one. Speaking of reviews, did you see […]

Out now on Steam! Take the helm of your zubmarine and set sail for the unknown! Zubmariner is the first expansion to Sunless Sea: deeper, darker, and more marvellous than anything you’ve seen before. All the powers of the Neath agree: there is Nothing of Consequence beneath the Zee. They are lying. You’ve heard there […]

We’re beginning the launch day celebrations for Zubmariner with a delicious piece of news for all owners of Sunless Sea: we’ve given you some chunky new quests in the base game! You don’t need to buy Zubmariner to enjoy them (though some will give you a little taste of what’s in store, down below). New faces in […]

You may have missed this, or forgotten it in the years since Sunless Sea was in development, but: if you bought Sunless Sea while it was in Early Access, or backed our Kickstarter, you will receive Zubmariner for free. That’s $10.99 worth of new stories, zee-beasts and tense, underwater gameplay! How do I know if […]

Hooray and hurrah, Zubmariner will be released on 11 October 2016 for Windows, Mac and Linux! Zubmariner brings an entire second layer to Sunless Sea, including new cities and ports to explore, packed with our trademark: agonising choices presented in beautiful prose. “Beneath the Unterzee it’s dark, hostile, littered with plunderable wrecks and haunted by […]

Experienced zailors will know that Zubmariner is the first expansion to Sunless Sea, due out this Autumn. For newcomers: Zubmariner will allow you to add a zubmarine shell to your vessel, in order to make risky dives below the Unterzee. Stories, loot, zee-beasts and surprises will be there to discover – but the risks will […]

We’ve talked a lot in the past about the development of Sunless Sea and what a learning curve it was for all of us. We were new to Unity development and had to make informed decisions quickly to keep the project moving. Our approach to the UI, and in particular the size of the font, […]