2026-08-27 11:06 UTC · Community Announcements · brandon
Greetings zailors,We have a patch which addresses some of the issues found with our recent engine version upgrade. We also have some news for players facing specific issues that can’t be directly addressed via patching.Legacy version v2.2.15.3229A number of you have raised issues with the new version of the game no longer being compatible with older hardware. This is because new versions of Unity don’t support older versions of Windows. (Steam itself no longer officially supports Windows 7 or 8.)Sunless Sea is a game we want to remain playable for a long time to come, and upgrading Unity is th
2026-07-29 12:59 UTC · Community Announcements · brandon
Greetings zailors,Today’s update deals with a pair of longstanding issues. There are no new stories; this is a purely technical update to keep Sunless Sea playable and maintainable for as long as possible.Firstly, we’ve received a number of bug reports in recent times about players being unable to get into the game proper. This appears to have been an issue where Sunless Sea’s fairly old Unity version wasn’t getting along with modern operating systems and graphics drivers. As such, we’ve upgraded the game’s Unity version, which ought to resolve these bugs.Secondly, we’ve fixed a bug where post
2025-02-04 12:34 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
Hello, delicious friends, Sunless Sea is turning 10 years old on the 6th of February, if you can believe it. And the game that originated the universe, the Zee, and every dreadful thing in it, Fallen London, is now 15! (Anyone making calculations about how old that makes us should probably just let that thought wink out like a false-star.) In celebration, Fallen London is getting a major adaptation for tabletop roleplaying, developed by Magpie Games. Magpie are the team behind Root, Avatar Legends, Urban Shadows, Bluebeard's Bride and many more wonderful games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/35dce
2023-01-26 10:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Failbetter
Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes
2023-01-26 10:07 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
Hello, zailors! Quick little update to fix the Steam auto cloud issue that's been bugging many of you. Full notes: Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present The steamcloud_saving.vdf file will be automatically deleted when loading the game through non-Steam clients Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes Happy zailing!
2022-06-09 08:52 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
We're delighted to offer Sunless Sea, Zubmariner and Sunless Skies in the World Oceans Day sale this year. If you're already a Sunless Sea player, this is an ideal opportunity to pick up Zubmariner at 50% off in the knowledge that any damage you do to our imagined unterzee-beasts can be metaphorically offset by our contribution to WDC. We'll be donating 30% of our net profits from the sale event to WDC to support their conservation work.* {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/d08852b4406a3dc0c8d2469da7ab1e3c821b1f37.jpg WDC is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of wha
2022-02-10 13:58 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
Today it’s been exactly a year since Mask of the Rose was funded on Kickstarter, and we've just released a demo of the first act, available right now on Steam! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/ffc05f0b301257678331764af25cd74d2bb5e6f6.png Offering a condensed version of Act I of Mask of the Rose, you’ll be able to explore select locations across Fallen London, introduce yourself to some key characters and encounter Mr Pages, one of the mysterious new Masters who have recently taken over London, in its office at the Bazaar. At the opening of Mask of the Rose, Mr Pages has employed your housemate, Griz
2021-10-20 17:54 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
You may have seen that we Kickstarted a new game in the same universe as Sunless Sea in February this year. Now we're pleased to announce that it has a shiny Steam page! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/8d4473b05d0a342fc1187cad948735af76c53f83.png Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel, so somewhat different to Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea. However, it's set in the same universe, and brings all of our expertise in writing deep, surprising, meaningful stories, this time on a more personal level. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/470e3fb4e375fdb6c763029dd24a2743b9ccf463.png Thanks to an unknown bargain
2021-04-28 11:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Adam
We’re glad to announce that Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will be released very soon, on Wednesday 19th May. This will be the first version of Sunless Skies we release on consoles, and will also be a free major update for everyone here on Steam! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/73d46eb56bd90aee3e1786f99f8dab82638a77f4.png This is a greatly enhanced edition of Sunless Skies, containing all additions and improvements we’ve made to the game since launch as well as many more completely new ones. Here's a link to the trailer! For the Sovereign Editio
2021-02-10 11:56 UTC · Eurogamer
Failbetter Games has successfully returned to Kickstarter to fund Mask of the Rose, a new romantic visual novel set in the studio's expansive Fallen London universe. A detectivey romancey story set just after London's fall, the game features a familiar setting but a new genre for the studio - something which encouraged it back to Kickstarter again to test the waters. As of writing, the project has more than £97k pledged of its initial £90k target, with 28 days of funding still to go. Read more
2020-12-02 17:05 UTC · Eurogamer
Failbetter Games, the developer behind the likes of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, has revealed it's currently working on two new titles, one of which is a visual-novel-style prequel to its acclaimed browser game Fallen London. Fallen London, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, unfolds in an alternate-universe Victorian London that was stolen by bats and carried beneath the planet's surface, down into a vast underground cavern system known as the Neath. Failbetter's next game, titled Mask of the Rose, takes place in 1862, shortly after London's move underground and around three d
2020-12-02 12:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Ranks
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/7b79f9c08ae05edf04af69d0e57555e9604c2dcb.png For a while now, we’ve been working on a couple of new projects. Today we’re very excited to announce the first of them! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel and prequel to all our other games set in the Fallen London universe. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/QujJ4oVaFKI Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months after London was stolen by bats. Londoners are still adjusting to life underground. The old street signs are being erased. New ministries and new
2020-04-09 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2da891519e90db186ed3321018178e7cf8b21f64.jpg Surprise! Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is coming out for Switch on 23rd April and XBox One on the 24th! You may have heard that we’ve been working on console ports for Sunless Sea, and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Initially we’d expected Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition to release for PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox One first, with Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition following. Schedules on both projects have moved around a bit, meaning the release dates are now as follows: Sunless S
2020-01-13 16:55 UTC · PC Gamer
Fallen London, the browser-based progenitor of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, is celebrating a decade of weirdness and wonderful prose. It's a big achievement given the declining popularity of browser games, and the trickiness in making them profitable. As well as concluding the long-running Ambition storylines, the Failbetter team hosted an AMA that hinted at the series' future.  While Failbetter isn't ready to discuss its next project in detail, CEO Adam Myers revealed that, for the next few, the studio will probably be making some big changes to how they play. "We c
2020-01-09 16:23 UTC · Community Announcements · hanchan
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/61191a447a1cedc0f12928698adbb152fe4817a3.png If you've played Sunless Sea or Sunless Skies, you might be familiar with Fallen London! Fallen London is a text-based browser game set in a subterranean city inhabited by Victorian Londoners, talking rats, and people with the faces of squids. In the last decade, it’s grown from a handful of stories to a 2.5-million word epic with tens of thousands of monthly players. We’d like to think that it’s remained popular for the kinds of stories we offer. Not just the weird, inventi
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