Absoultely delightful to get lost in the rougelike Victorian-Lovecraftian lore. If you love to explore and make questionable decisions with unknown consequences in a constant life-or-death adventure, or want to spirit yourself to a different and immersive atmosphere, give Sunless Sea a go

Sunless Sea is a captivating and atmospheric game that masterfully blends exploration, survival, and narrative-driven adventure into a uniquely dark and poetic experience. Set in the same richly imagined universe as Failbetter Games’ Sunless Skies and Fallen London, the game invites players to captain a steamship across an eerie underground ocean known as the Unterzee. From the outset, Sunless Sea distinguishes itself through its dense writing, immersive worldbuilding, and a haunting soundtrack that perfectly underscores the bleak beauty and perpetual uncertainty of this shadowy seascape. It’s a game that demands patience and curiosity, rewarding players who embrace its slow-burning tension and literary depth. At its core, Sunless Sea is about survival in an unforgiving environment where every journey is fraught with peril. Players must carefully manage resources like fuel, food, and crew sanity while navigating a map filled with mysterious islands, lurking dangers, and inscrutabl...

I- I don’t recall playing this.

The atmosphere of this game is top notch, absolutely enthralling. Superb story telling, but superb in that way that it's interesting and vague to let your imagination run wild. If you are looking for a coherent and well defined story, you won't like this. London was stolen by bats and set underground on a giant ocean. Other famous cities from history are here. There's eldritch beings who like formal titles running around. Feelings and ideas take physical shape here and are used as currency. Things are hella confusing, like all over the place. You are constantly trying to balance fuel and food so you can sail a ship in a place where the laws of physics make no sense. Also the stars are alive and are mad at you. It's great. My only advice, use some software editing tool to speed up the game if you are a on a timeline. My main gaming time is late at night after the kids go to bed, and I have to play at 5x speed or I'll get nothing done.

Fantastic game with a couple of glaring caveats. The biggest issue is that pretty much all of what you learn you have to learn on your own without help from the game and can lead you to stumble around for a frustrating amount of time given that travel time between places is fairly long. Since there isn't much content you can engage with early given your ship and stats are weak, this compounds upon itself. Some things make runs easier, but they're consumable. The only things that give permanent bonuses and thus enable you to engage with a lot of the side content are also main content major rewards. Getting those rewards is obscure enough that if you don't look it up, you encounter too many barriers to make it approachable, thus spoiling yourself. Once you've got those rewards, a lot of the side content doesn't feel as satisfying because you've already "beat the game" several times by that point. With no major objective and long travel times, the time sink to complete side stories, even ...

This is as close you can get to pure eldritch horror. 10/10 atmosphere and soundtrack.

If you are into these type of games, then this is the game for you. Adventures await, captain! Let's zail the unterzea with your zailors !

The music is decent, and the idea behind the game is admirable. You can feel the tension even though it is a simple 2D game. The horror of the unknown grips you for the first 10 hours. However, since the game is mainly text-based, that is where my main criticism lies. Normally, I enjoy text-based games. I loved games like The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, Roadwarden and Thronebreaker. Even mobile ones such as The Great Tournament and Wizard’s Choice were fun to read and interact with. But this one has the worst writing I have ever encountered. There is no proper storytelling; some islands feel like they were written by a broken AI. Most of the time it feels like nonsense and generally all over the place. I even tried Fallen London to dive deeper into the lore, but writing-wise, it was no better. On top of that, you can’t even progress properly without paying in this so-called 'free' browser game. Aside from the writing, another major downside is the painfully slow pacing. If yo...

well i'm finally getting into the original webgame (fallen london) after playing this one. great game. good story and worldbuilding, the same kind pathologic classic hd has. also painfully slow in the same way pathologic classic hd is. i really prefer stories that throw you into the thick of it without very much of a tutorial or explanation, and this game does that wonderfully (there is a tutorial, its just limited). probably play fallen london first. i think going into this game blind is bad actually. i just had fun because im stupid, stubborn, and dumb.

The atmosphere and story of this game is definitely interesting, but I can't help but feel it fails at the "game" part. You're essentially a steam boat captain in this kind of dark alternate reality Gothic Victorian world. The "unterzee", this giant underground ocean that London now lies next to, is the place you explore. It's full of pirates, monsters and weird eldritch horrors. Let's start with the positives. The game's writing is mostly very good and can be poignant and captivating in places. There are a few characters who are quite deep in their portrayal, such as some of the members of crew you can get. There is a good air of mystery about everything. The music is excellent and one of my favourite parts of the experience. Getting close to some of the islands owned as provinces of Hell in particular stirs this masterfully grim industrial kind of soundtrack that is pretty great. The atmosphere of the game, when you're chugging along in darkness and you have the little logbook pop...