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Sunless Skies (2019)

Failbetter Games

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.31 from 39 ratings

1157 members have it in their collection · 14 playing now · 850 backlogged · 71 wish listed

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, Mac and Linux. It is the dawn of the 20th century, and the British Empire has taken to the stars! As the captain … Read more
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, Mac and Linux. It is the dawn of the 20th century, and the British Empire has taken to the stars! As the captain of a spacefaring locomotive you’ll behold wonders and battle cosmic abominations in the heavens. The stars are alive. They are the Judgements: vast intelligences that govern all things. But they are dying. One by one, something is snuffing them out, leaving their thrones empty. Unfettered by trivial things like gravity, the Empire’s ambition is savage. They have built a new Sun. The Empress reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time. Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. Will you support her majesty and the establishment, or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds? Learn who you are, in the dark. Die, and leave the world the way you want it for your successor… Read less
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Developers
Failbetter Games
Publishers
Failbetter Games
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Science fiction
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Release dates

  • Jan 31, 2019 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)

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Jasyla

Review Jasyla 3/5 · Apr 1, 2025

The Skies are so vast

I both love and hate this game... The writing is fantastic, exploring things for the first few times is great. The characters are weird and intriguing.

But all the travelling back and forth...

I could have beaten this game if I chose an easier goal (like money), but this is a story game, I want to discover the story. And …

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I both love and hate this game... The writing is fantastic, exploring things for the first few times is great. The characters are weird and intriguing.

But all the travelling back and forth...

I could have beaten this game if I chose an easier goal (like money), but this is a story game, I want to discover the story. And it just... takes forever. I think I have to stop.

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ПавелПахонин

Status ПавелПахонин Nov 10, 2018

Не играл, но подсчказывает мне что то, что это то же самое что Sunless Sea. А та мне не зашла

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