Sunless Sea
Play as the captain of a steamship on an underwater ocean surrounding the fictional city of Fallen London. Manage your ship's fuel and food supplies as you try not to go mad fighting off Lovecraftian monsters.
Sunless Sea is an adventure developed by Failbetter Games, released 6 February 2015 on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 62 hrs to finish.
What Sunless Sea is
Sunless Sea is an adventure game developed by Failbetter Games and released in 2015. It is available on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sunless Sea is a survival/exploration role-playing video game with roguelike elements developed by Failbetter Games. The game was released on 6 February 2015 for Windows and OS X following a successful Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the project. The game takes place in the universe of Failbetter's browser adventure game Fallen London, in which Victorian-era London has been moved beneath the Earth's surface to the edge of the Unterzee, a vast underground ocean. On 11 October 2016, the game's first downloadable content Zubmariner was released, which allows players to explore beneath the surface of the "zee". A sequel, Sunless Skies, was announced in September 2016. It surpassed its funding…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 54 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sunless Sea holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 84 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 62 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 124 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2Ghz or better, 1 GB RAM and 1280x768 minimum resolution, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Sunless Sea launched on 6 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sunless Sea yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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