Posted on: September 7, 2025
Ponch
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Fun game for the price
An oldie but a goodie. Worth a buy.
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Sunless Sea
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Take the helm of your customised steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a 2D game of discovery, survival and loneliness set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London. Will you succumb to madness and cannibalism on the black waters? Or return home triumphant with a hold full of precious loot?
Events can turn out differently every game - sometimes, even if you make the same choices. Will you lose your sweetheart to a curse? Redeem, betray or consume the Genial Magician? Sell your soul to the Wistful Deviless or spurn her advances? Is the Dawn Machine your salvation, or your doom?
You are the captain. It’s your call.
Events can turn out differently every game - sometimes, even if you make the same choices. Will you lose your sweetheart to a curse? Redeem, betray or consume the Genial Magician? Sell your soul to the Wistful Deviless or spurn her advances? Is the Dawn Machine your salvation, or your doom?
You are the captain. It’s your call.
- Light and dark. Stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity. But there is treasure out there in the darkness…
- Upgrade your steamship with powerful engines, flensing cannons, and pneumatic torpedo guns. Or just 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 from a menagerie of ship’s mascots: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, and more!
- Trade silk and souls, mushroom wine, and hallucinogenic honey.
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21 hMain
61 h Main + Sides
123 h Completionist
58.5 h All Styles
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IGN
8.3/10
Sunless Sea gives you a wonderful world to explore that's packed with memorable written vignettes and danger.
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80/100
Wonderful writing resting on top of infirm foundations. Almost a classic, Sunless Sea falls a few leagues short of its final destination.
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8/10
It's a rich, story-driven game of moving from island to island like some sort of Lovecraftian Odysseus. It's engaging, but loads of screens to push through and lackluster combat detract from the experience
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Posted on: October 4, 2025
Dackten
Verified ownerGames: 20 Reviews: 2
Life's a voyage, enjoy the ride
Augh what is that! Waaahh! What is that thing! AUHAUHAUSHAUH! 10/10.
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Posted on: October 13, 2025
CryptoHorror
Verified ownerGames: 285 Reviews: 5
Get lost in it.
I need to remind myself of this as well: get lost in this game. You're not supposed to ”win”.
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Posted on: October 15, 2025
ganglygerkin
Verified ownerGames: 29 Reviews: 1
Boring and tedius
Sooooo slow, forcing you to repeat the same tasks
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Posted on: August 26, 2018
LucyJFer
Verified ownerGames: 126 Reviews: 4
Hope you like reading.And H.P. Lovecraft
If so - you're in for a treat as that's where the strenghts of this game lies. It's beautifully and sometimes frighteningly written - writer clearly understands how Lovecraftian game should 'feel'. Graphics are meh - nothing special although they do produce a decent mood. Music is great, atmospheric, wet. Gameplay itself is a painfully slow grind as you swim from port to port to earn an echo (currency) here and there. At first it didn't bother me as I've enjoyed stories and sounds. But progression is so slow that it killed my interest. Also it's a huge misunderstanding that the best tactic in the game is to run away from every threat as even when you 'fight' (press one icon on your screen when it) the losses will be almost always bigger than gains therefore you go bored or you go to start screen to start everything again with blackened map. Shame, I've enjoyed it for a while but only cause I like reading and Lovemakercraft.
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