Announcing Our Next Game: Mask of the Rose

For a while now, weve been working on a couple of new projects. Today were 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. Heres 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 festivals are being established. The mysterious Masters of the Bazaar seem to be in charge. You share your boarding house with a few other lodgers: Archie, a medical student discovering firsthand that Death works differently here. Griselda, a close aide of the new Masters. Horatia, the landlady with a soft spot for the Neath's native inhabitants. Harjit, the local constable looking for a missing person of his own. As you make a new life below, you may find yourself visiting the underwater ruins of Parliament; intervening in a murder trial where the victim is a witness; or steering a hooded, vocabularious Master through the subtleties of a London courtship. However you choose to live in the Neath, you have your own friendships and your own heart to look after. The art of Mask of the Rose draws on Film Noir, Victorian photography and Blitz-era Britain, and is an evolution of the Fallen London universes painterly style, keeping the atmosphere of the original but with more detail and depth. If youre a fan of the Fallen London universe, Mask of the Rose offers a glimpse of events weve never shown before, as part of a more personal story. You will get to explore the origins of beloved characters and institutions, as well as encounter brand new mysteries. Mask of the Rose is also an excellent introduction for players just getting started with the Fallen London universe. Well be running a Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose in February 2021 - sign up on our Kickstarter page to be notified when the campaign goes live, and join our Discord or forums to discuss the announcement!

What about Sunless Skies Sovereign Edition?

With our porting partner, weve submitted builds for certification on all three console platforms. This is the process in which Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft sign off on them as ready for release. We dont know exactly how long it will take, and its common for certification to throw up a few issues, but this puts us in striking distance of a release! Much of the work on the console editions is being done by an external team whore much more experienced with porting games than we are. We're looking forward to being able to share the fixes and performance improvements they've made with you!

New projects, plural?

Thats right! Were working on two new projects. We cant tell you much about the other yet, but we can say that its game mechanics are very different from our past work, and that it takes place in a new setting. Sign up via Kickstarter to be informed as soon as the Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose goes live.

[ 2020-12-02 12:04:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

SUNLESS SEA

Failbetter Games Developer

Failbetter Games Publisher

2015-02-06 Release

Indie RPG Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 49

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (7367 reviews)

http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless/

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Sunless Sea Linux Depot [671.71 M]
Sunless Sea - Zubmariner Linux Depot [668.95 M]

Available DLCs:

Sunless Sea - Zubmariner

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.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: 2Ghz or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x768 minimum resolution. DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card. OpenGL CoreSound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

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