SUNLESS SEA

SUNLESS SEA

Released Feb 2015

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

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Evaluation

Sunless Sea launched on February 6, 2015 and received one major paid expansion, Zubmariner, which released on October 11, 2016. That expansion is the only DLC ever released for the game, and it has been available for nearly a decade. Since Zubmariner shipped, Failbetter Games has not released any further content for Sunless Sea — no additional DLC has been announced or listed, and no developer post has signaled plans for new content specific to this game. The studio's attention moved on to Sunless Skies (released February 2019), its Sovereign Edition (May 2021), and then Mask of the Rose (announced 2020). The most recent news post touching on Sunless Sea, from February 4, 2025, was a 10th anniversary celebration announcement for a Fallen London tabletop RPG — a third-party project by Magpie Games, not new content for Sunless Sea itself. The post mentions a potential future Sunless Sea module for the tabletop game as a "dream" contingent on the project's success, but this is a separate product from a separate studio and does not represent planned content for the video game. The last bug fix patch was issued on January 26, 2023, indicating the game is still maintained at a basic level, but there has been no content development since October 2016. Sunless Sea is a complete, finished game.
Evidence
Zubmariner, the only DLC for Sunless Sea, was released on October 11, 2016. No further DLC has been listed or announced.
dlc listing · Oct 11, 2016 source content shipped
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Zubmariner expansion launched, described as the first expansion to Sunless Sea. No follow-up expansions were ever announced.
news post · Oct 11, 2016 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Oct 2016

Media

Details

Publisher
Failbetter Games
Achievements
54
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE.


Sunless Sea is a Gothic Horror RPG with a focus on exploration, exquisite storytelling and frequent death.

Captain a Victorian steamship on a vast underground sea


If the giant crabs, sentient icebergs and swarms of bats don’t get you, madness and cannibalism certainly will. But that old black ocean beckons, and there’s loot for the brave souls who dare to sail her.

Seek out intriguing individuals for your crew


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.

Stray from the gas-lamps of civilisation


Light and dark, terror and madness: spend too long on the wide, dark sea and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity.

Carve a life for your captain in a cruel and unique world


A deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets. Find your father’s bones. Determine London’s destiny. Defy the gods of the deep sea.

Your captain will die.


Pass on resources from one generation to the next. Acquire a family home and a hoard of heirlooms. Build a legacy of zailors who braved the sea and lost - or, occasionally, won.

Features

  • Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog-shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE.

  • Real-time combat against ships and Zee-beasts, spider-crewed dreadnoughts and sentient icebergs.

  • Upgrade your steamship with powerful engines, cannons and pneumatic torpedo guns. (Or buy a bigger, better ship.)

  • Choose a ship’s mascot: the Comatose Ferret, the Wretched Mog, the Elegiac Cockatoo, and more!

  • Trade or smuggle silk and souls, mushroom wine and hallucinogenic honey.

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.
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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