- Publisher: Failbetter Games
- Release Date: Jan 31, 2019

- Summary: SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling for PC, Mac and Linux.
- Developer: Failbetter Games
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, General
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 30
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Mixed: 2 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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Feb 21, 2020Failbetter finally balances smart gameplay and ingenious prose in this poignant saga of mortality, writ large.
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Feb 5, 2019Failbetter continues to revolutionise the RPG - not by burning it all down, but by slipping pages of prose into every crevice it can.
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Feb 19, 2019With impeccable world-building and compelling exploration, Sunless Skies is a haunting journey that is worth traversing time and time again.
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Feb 7, 2019Sunless Skies is a strange amalgamation of genres with even stranger stories to tell, but the weird world and nightmarish encounters come together to create something special. Combat and repetition may weigh down the Homeric adventure, but the overall journey is well worth the ticket.
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Feb 28, 2019Sunless Skies is a refined and more organic successor to Sunless Sea. The skies above London are full of intriguing events and charming characters depicted through a fancy, sharp and magnetic writing. The hybrid gameplay which mixes “choose your own adventure” elements with a classic RPG/roguelite scheme works well and offer a deep and satisfying experience. If you don’t mind read walls of text and embrace the rhythm of the slow gaming, Sunless Skies is one of the best games around.
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Feb 8, 2019Sunless Skies is another well-written story from Failbetter Games. The story and setting carry the game, but the combat mechanics can take some getting used to and may feel limiting. If you like your stories thick in the dark and strange ways of things like H.P. Lovecraft than this could very well be your cup of maddening tea. And you do like tea, don’t you? Of course you do, the Queen wouldn’t allow it to be otherwise and She is watching, always watching.
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Feb 21, 2019Sunless Skies is a real "interactive book". In the new game of Failbetter Games there are texts of a really rare quality for a video game, like a good sci-fi novel. Too bad that the strength of Sunless Skies is also its greatest limit: there are often long sequences of readings a bit too verbose and ends in themselves.
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Positive: 9 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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Negative: 4 out of 16
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Feb 15, 2019this game is amazing the atmosphere and writing are flawless this game is one of the best
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