Sunless Sea News

Sunless Skies, our follow-up to Sunless Sea, is now available!

Sunless Skies has had, by some way, the best ever critical reception of our games. It's been called “Failbetter’s finest hour” by PC Gamer, “Terrifying and exhilarating” by PCGamesN, “Essential” by Eurogamer and “A triumph” by Gamespot. And at the time of writing we're at 87 on Metacritic, putting us right below a few little known games in their 2019 rankings called, umm, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends, and Resident Evil 2? Needless to say, we’re intensely grateful and delighted.

Sunless Skies is doing very well for us commercially, too. Far better than we needed it to do. We occasionally receive sympathetic enquiries about our financial health from the community; to be clear about that, we're in a very good position, and now we're really looking forward to spending several months further extending and improving Sunless Skies.

If you've yet to take a look, we hope you will.

The skies are yours,

Failbetter Games

It's one week until SUNLESS SKIES releases from Early Access!



Discover what awaits you in the High Wilderness in the new launch trailer

It's been two years since the Kickstarter for SUNLESS SKIES, and we are so proud of the game that we've made. It's got all of the delicious stories you've come to expect from us, but - hopefully - in a game that's a more well-rounded experience.

Find out more about SUNLESS SKIES on its Steam page!

We hope you'll join us, and can't wait to hear what you think.

See you in the Heavens,
Failbetter Games

Hello, delicious friends.

You might remember we've been working on a follow-up to Sunless Sea. It's due out in two weeks, and we're so excited to see what you think!

Take a look at Sunless Skies!



If you've just joined us from the Daily Deal: welcome! We hope you're enjoying our deep, dark and marvellous stories. If you would like some help getting started, try the discussion forums here, r/sunlesssea or our lovely Discord.

We remain, your friends,
Failbetter Games

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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?

If you’ve been itching to try Sunless Sea, here or on a different platform, now’s your chance!

Steam (29 Oct - 1 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%)

GOG (29 Oct - 5 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%)

iPad (29 Oct - 5 Nov): Sunless Sea (30%)

PS4 (17 - 31 Oct for Europe and 19 Oct - 6 Nov for North America): Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition (30% plus another 10% for PS+ users)

We hope you enjoy zailing, whether its from your desk or your couch! And if you can spare a moment to leave a review, it really helps us reach more people with our games.






Our upcoming game, Sunless Skies, is coming out 31 January 2019, too. So if you’d like to swap your ship for a star-sailing steam locomotive you can wishlist the game now on Steam or GOG.