Its been a couple of weeks now since we released Sunless Skies, and were really happy with how the launch has gone. This is, by some way, the best critical reception one of our games has ever had. Sunless Skies has been called Failbetters finest hour by PC Gamer, Terrifying and exhilarating by PCGamesN, Essential by Eurogamer and A triumph by Gamespot. And at the time of writing we're at 87 on Metacritic, putting us right below a few little known games in their 2019 rankings called, umm, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends, and Resident Evil 2? Needless to say, were intensely grateful and delighted. Thank you to everyone who played Sunless Skies during Early Access: it couldnt have become what it is without you. Sunless Skies is doing very well for us commercially, too. Far better than we needed it to do. We occasionally receive sympathetic enquiries about our financial health from the community; to be clear about that, we're in a very good position, and now we're really looking forward to spending several months further extending and improving Sunless Skies.
Update Plans
In the next couple of months, well be releasing at least one major update, with a focus on filling out the game with more to see and do while travelling, including more narrative choice and consequence and, of course, unusual ways to die. We're not ready to say more about the details just yet, but we think you'll like what we have planned. Well be working on more updates with other areas of focus after this as well, with plenty of new stories, gameplay features and other improvements. And naturally, we'll continue patching the game to fix bugs and improve performance. Weve already released three patches last week with more than 80 fixes and improvements; were working on another that should be ready in the next two or three days. Thank you again, for everything. We couldn't have done any of this without your enthusiasm, your feedback, and your support. The skies are yours, Failbetter Games
[ 2019-02-12 15:02:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Sunless Skies Linux Depot [868.48 M]
- SUNLESS SKIES OST
Ten years have passed since Sunless Sea, and Queen Victoria has led an exodus from London to the heavens. There, a revitalised British Empire - ambitious and authoritarian - begins to expand across the skies.
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. An opportunistic Victorian Empire is colonising the domains they leave behind, painting its industrial vision upon the fabric of the heavens.
- Travel between distant ports, unravelling stories, bearing passengers and news, and trading in exotic celestial cargoes.
- Your every foray into space is as precarious as a Polar expedition. You’ll need to balance your resources carefully and keep an eye on your crew’s Terror to avoid mutiny and death.
- Your captain's actions could tip the precarious political balance of a region. Will you run guns for the Independents? Or spies for the Empire? Choose wisely – your decisions will affect the story; not just for yourself, but for your future captains as well.
- Leave your mark on the universe, and be marked in return. When you are creating your captain, every decision is a story, and every story has a consequence.
- Equip your vessel as you see fit. Would you benefit more from reinforced armour plating, or the additional manpower allowed by external crew pods? ("Soundproof! Cosy! Detachable!")
- It is not safe in the skies. A captain will need to defend themselves against pirates, scorn-flukes, the Cyst of Faces, and worse.
- Recruit a gallery of unpredictable characters to crew your locomotive as First Officer, Chief Engineer, Signaller, or Surgeon. Each brings their own skills and stories to your adventures.
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
- Processor: Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 4500 MB available spaceSound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 4500 MB available spaceSound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- Storage: 4500 MB available space
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