Sunless Skies
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Set a course for the heavens in your steam locomotive! Lose yourself in a changing universe where even time can be bought. A Victorian Gothic adventure for PC…
Sunless Skies is an adventure developed by Failbetter Games, released 31 January 2019 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sunless Skies is
Sunless Skies is an adventure game developed by Failbetter Games and released in 2019. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sunless Skies is a role-playing video game developed by Failbetter Games. Partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the game entered early access in 2017 and released in January 2019, and has been described as a "Gothic horror roleplay game". Sunless Skies is a direct sequel to 2015's Sunless Sea and incorporates similar elements and setting.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 31 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sunless Skies holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM and DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
Sunless Skies launched on 31 January 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2 and Slay the Spire. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sunless Skies yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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