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Today, we are making a few changes to Doubt Street: The various Doubt Street opportunity cards have been retired. Players with certain endgame traits will now find new branches in various Doubt Street storylets which allow them to gain more of a specific type of copy. Rewards for the standard newspaper editions (and the Seditious […]

“… you dutifully record what you’ve uncovered, along with even more implausible rumours: That his Beast is Clay at heart, but covered in iron. That he once fell in love – With a Londoner? A tomb-colonist? Another Clay Man? A zee-beast? – and wandered the Zee to find this lover. That everything he says are […]

A notorious Vicomte is buying property across London. Now he has an eye on your address – and potentially your neck. Navigate the estate market, infiltrate secret lairs, and learn how to deal with a truly blood-sucking landlord. Written by Chandler Groover Art by Tobias Cook Editing and QA: James Chew & Olivia Wood In addition to […]

Ammoniac vapours rise around you as your spade bites into the snow. As you inhale them, your breath quickens… So-called snow is falling in Fallen London! Starting today, Time, the Healer will bring ‘snow’ to doorsteps across London. You’ll need to dig your door out before you can get into your lodgings, or find someone […]

The winter balance patch is going live today; you can find the initial explanation of the motivation behind those changes in the preceding post. It’s probably worth saying something about balance patching in general, and why this is currently part of our process. This year, we’ve been working hard to make Fallen London more sustainable […]

Update: we’ve now extended the application deadline until 9am on Monday 18th January. We’re Failbetter Games, makers of Sunless Skies, Sunless Sea, Mask of the Rose and Fallen London. We’re looking for a senior gameplay programmer to work with us on an unannounced project. This position is full-time, permanent, and remote. In this role, 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 […]

Christmas approaches, bringing questionable snow and hooded visitors. Stay in, and burn a candle with us! The Fallen London Advent Calendar From today until the 25th of December we’ll be handing out advent treats via the Fallen London Advent Calendar. Each window will give you a snippet of Yuley narrative, and something besides: trinkets, magpie-treasures, […]

The Icarian Cup returns to London! A daring boat race around the Southern Archipelago, the prize a magnificent trophy (and a bounty of sapphires)! Pay no mind to the talk about the race being ‘cursed’ and ‘ships disappearing’ or ‘the race was closed in 1868 after too many captains disappeared’. All that matters is that […]

A Probationary Professor is looking for assistants for a perilous venture. Inspired by the fever for palaeontology and armed with a doctorate on the ritual practices of the Starved Men, she’s looking to lead an expedition to the cavern roof.  Upwards is a Fate-locked story that allows you to accompany a Probationary Professor who has […]