Sunless Sea (2015)

3.41 from 265 ratings

2343 members have it in their collection · 38 playing now · 1300 backlogged · 151 wish listed

How long? Main story 46h (from 2 logged playthroughs)

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.

Details

Developers: Failbetter Games
Publishers: Failbetter Games
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Themes: Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mystery, Survival, Thriller
Steam: View on Steam

Release dates

Feb 06, 2015 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Feb 25, 2016 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux
Mar 23, 2017 (Full Release) (Worldwide) iOS

Bundled in

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition (Apr 2020) · NSW, PS4, XONE

Expansions

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner (Oct 2016) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, XONE

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Game in progress by Shot9292 · 51 games · 0

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Community All Reviews Statuses

Status s_tac Aug 24, 2022

I came back to this recently after putting it on hold a few years ago. I really love the world and lore of Fallen London, but I just can't get past Sunless Sea's absolutely boring gameplay and tedious grind. Back to my On Hold shelf it goes...

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Status killerstar Feb 25, 2021

Sonless Sea is free at Epic Store.

I'm more of a Sunny Island kind of person, but to each their own I guess.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sunless-sea/home

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Status anarchistica Feb 25, 2021

This is free on the Epic store this week:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sunless-sea/home

Next week we get Wargame: Red Dragon.

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Status DMH Nov 17, 2016

Finally, after adding the Zubmariner expansion, I was able to upgrade to a zub and really start exploring. Winter is coming, so no better time than now to dive deeper into this game.