If you've just joined us: welcome! We're working on the first DLC for Sunless Sea, the underwater expansion Zubmariner, in which your captain will truly find a sea more sunless. Here's a new video from primary developer Mac, talking about light, shadow and different types of terrain on the zee-floor.

Current and sonar

We’ve now got ocean-wide currents in place, with some updated artwork and sound effects. Zubmarines are also now outfitted with Sonar, giving sailors a brief glimpse at what lies in the dark. This is an early idea of how it will look. Underwater, sonar will replace your zee-bat, and flag up anything you should be aware of in your immediate surroundings.

EGX Rezzed

We’re presenting a look at the latest version of Zubmariner and a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Sunless Sea on 9th April at EGX Rezzed in London. It’ll also be live streamed on the EGX Twitch channel at 1pm. Details about tickets are on the official EGX site. We’d love to answer your questions in the presentation, so leave us a comment with your Qs about Sunless Sea or Zubmariner and we’ll try to cover what we can!

Sunless Sea is now on Linux!

Hooray and hurrah and sound the trumpets, Sunless Sea is available on Linux! Welcome, Linux zailors. This is a big step for us, and just part of the technical updates we’re making to the core game as we prepare for Zubmariner.

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LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE.

Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

If the giant crabs, sentient icebergs and swarms of bats don’t get you, madness and cannibalism certainly will. But that old black ocean beckons, and there’s loot for the brave souls who dare to sail her.

Betray your crew, sell your soul to a Devil, marry your sweetheart. Survive long enough and you’ll achieve your life’s ambition.

You will die, but your legacy will live on…

Key features

• A deep, compelling world packed with 200,000+ words of stories and secrets. Find your father’s bones. Determine London’s destiny. Defy the gods of the deep sea.
  
• Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog-shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE.
  
• Your captain will die. But you can pass on resources from one generation to the next. Acquire a family home and a hoard of heirlooms. Build up your own story across generations of zailors who braved the sea and lost - or won...
  
• Real-time combat against ships and Zee-beasts, spider-crewed dreadnoughts and sentient icebergs.
  
• Light and dark, terror and madness: stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity.
  
• Upgrade your steamship with powerful engines, cannons and pneumatic torpedo guns. (Or buy a bigger, better ship.)
  
• Hire unique officers like the Haunted Doctor and the Irrepressible Cannoneer. Each has a story to tell, if you can draw it out of them.
  
• Choose a ship’s mascot: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, and more!
  
• Trade or smuggle silk and souls, mushroom wine and hallucinogenic honey.