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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Description
Sunless Skies is a gothic horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.Command a flying steam locomotive The only thing between you and the waste-winds, storms and cosmic lightning is your engine. Tend and upgrade it, buy weaponry and exotic equipment, and keep...
Genre:
Adventure - Role-playing - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Role-playing, Atmospheric, show 12 more... 2D, Exploration, Dark, Great Soundtrack, Horror, Survival, Roguelike, Top-Down, Lovecraftian, Steampunk, Trains, Petting Dogs
Critics reviews
88 %
Recommend
Eurogamer
Essential
PC Gamer
90/100
Game Informer
8.8/10
User reviews

3.9/5

( 53 Reviews )

3.9

53 Reviews

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Product details
2017, Failbetter Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 or later, Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 w...
DLCs
Sunless Skies Soundtrack
Time to beat
29.5 hMain
67 h Main + Sides
114.5 h Completionist
78.5 h All Styles

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Description

Sunless Skies is a gothic horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Command a flying steam locomotive


The only thing between you and the waste-winds, storms and cosmic lightning is your engine. Tend and upgrade it, buy weaponry and exotic equipment, and keep her hull in good shape to hold the hostile Heavens at bay.

Explore a unique and dangerous universe

You play the captain of a locomotive, a steam engine fitted for off-rail travel: sailing the stars, leading your crew into trouble and out of their minds. Smuggle souls, barter for crates of time, stop for cricket and a cup of tea.

Discover more of the deep, dark and marvellous Fallen London Universe, as seen in our previous game, SUNLESS SEA. (You can play either game first, the stories coexist happily.)

Fight her majesty's agents, pirates and abominations of the skies


Face ships of differing factions and unknowable beasts each with different attacks and agendas.

Survive starvation, madness and terror.


Manage your crew’s condition and your captain’s nightmares. Balance fuel and supplies against your desire for new horizons, knowledge or riches. Struggle with sights never meant for human eyes. How will the dark change you?

Recruit officers on your adventures


Populate your ship with unique, upgradeable officers, each with their own quest to fulfill: an incautious driver, an incognito princess, a repentant devil, and - dear god! - your Aunt?! How did she get out here?

Discover your captain’s past through narrative levelling


Reveal your captain’s past deeds as facets of their personality as you progress. Most captains will perish, but their actions will leave a mark on the world for their descendants - for better or worse. Pass on some effects, and return anew to deal with events that your previous captain put into motion.

THE WORLD

The High Wilderness is a wondrous vision of space: shifting, wind-swept ruins where the laws of the cosmos are not as we imagined.


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.

Unfettered by trivial things like gravity, the Victorian Empire have pushed their tendrils into this new world, and their ambition is savage. They have built a new Sun. The Empress Victoria reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time.

Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. Will you support her majesty and the establishment, or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds?

Features
  • 800,000+ words of intertwining stories, inspired by CS Lewis, Jules Verne, HP Lovecraft and HG Wells
  • Four regions to explore: celestial wilderness, impossible industrial empire, pagan midnight expanse, and the domain of the dead
  • Real-time combat against horrifying celestial foes and merciless pirates
  • Upgrade your engine with bizarre equipment and powerful weaponry
  • Build a lineage of captains as each dies, or reload your most recent captain
  • Collect pets: the Useless Cat, Perfect Pangolin and more

Who are Failbetter Games?
We’re a boutique games studio based in London, UK. We’ve been making indie games since 2009. If you’ve read this far, this game is almost certainly for you. Come with us into the dark, delicious friend.

Copyright Failbetter Games 2009-2018

Popular achievements
A New Lineage
Pass your locomotive to a new captain in your lineage.
common  ·  41.62%
The Garden of Heaven
Discover all stations in the Reach.
common  ·  34.75%
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
29.5 hMain
67 h Main + Sides
114.5 h Completionist
78.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Role-playing - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Role-playing, Atmospheric, show 12 more... 2D, Exploration, Dark, Great Soundtrack, Horror, Survival, Roguelike, Top-Down, Lovecraftian, Steampunk, Trains, Petting Dogs
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9+)
Release date:
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Company:
Failbetter Games / Failbetter Games
Size:
1.2 GB
Links:
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Game features
Achievements
Cloud saves
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
DLCs
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Critics reviews
85
Top Critic Average
88 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
Eurogamerby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Essential
All the verbal artistry of Sunless Sea scattered across a gorgeous steampunk cosmos that's a little easier to navigate and thrive in.
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PC Gamerby Chris Schilling
90/100
The sharpest writing around, wrapped inside a surprising adventure that's tough but rarely unfair. Failbetter's finest hour.
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Game Informerby Daniel Tack
8.8/10
A fascinating, immersive trek. Sunless Skies excels at world-building and begs to be experienced by anyone who enjoys a dark story
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User reviews

Posted on: August 21, 2024

feivelyn

Verified owner

Games: 17 Reviews: 1

Very good Game!

Amazing writing, world and atmosphere. I belong to the handful of people that work to mod this game, I am clearly biased.

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Posted on: August 3, 2025

Crow81

Verified owner

Games: 52 Reviews: 1

Beautiful game, easy to lose yourself in

I've only got about 10 hours in this game, but it is THOROUGHLY enjoyable. It'll suck you in and you'll probably love it as much as I do. Think Victorian Era steampunk with Lovecraft horror themes set in a very strange and beautiful universe. Oh, and you're driving a train through outer space. You can tell these developers really care about what they make. This game is beautiful. The artwork and sound are absolutely TOP notch. I love the creativity and skill on that are display in every frame. And OMG, the sound. It's fitting and engaging but subtle. If this sounds even a little bit like something you'd enjoy, BUY IT!! It's really a fantastic game.

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Posted on: October 2, 2025

sleezysloth

Verified owner

Games: 4 Reviews: 2

Train goes choo chooo

I very much like it. it is cozy and sometimes very much a little eldritch. got some good stories and if you dont like reading, well i suppose this might not be too much of a game for you. The ambiance, the music, the noises great! anyhow feel free to disagree, i had much fun with it

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Posted on: March 22, 2025

TimRPalmer

Verified owner

Games: 140 Reviews: 5

Gotta love the style!

It takes a little bit to catch the dark humor and strange economy of this world. While fuel and supplies are important, you will surely die. And you need to die in strange new ways to achieve! So much fun for someone who enjoys reading AND gaming.

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Posted on: August 11, 2025

MystantoNewt

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Games: 112 Reviews: 2

Extremely entertaining and engrossing

I really liked Sunless Seas and I really like its sequel, Sunless Skies. Refreshingly different style of gameplay.

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