Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

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. 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. Unfettered by trivial things like gravity, the Victorian Empire have pushed their tendrils into this new world, and their ambition is savage. The Empress Victoria reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time. We’ve been making indie games since 2009. They have built a new Sun. Smuggle souls, barter for crates of time, stop for cricket and a cup of tea. One by one, something is snuffing them out, leaving their thrones empty. Balance fuel and supplies against your desire for new horizons, knowledge or riches. - your Aunt?! 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? Will you support her majesty and the establishment, or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds? If you’ve read this far, this game is almost certainly for you. The stars are alive. Most captains will perish, but their actions will leave a mark on the world for their descendants - for better or worse. 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. (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. 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! Come with us into the dark, delicious friend. Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. 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. But they are dying. Discover more of the deep, dark and marvellous Fallen London Universe, as seen in our previous game, SUNLESS SEA. Struggle with sights never meant for human eyes. They are the Judgements: vast intelligences that govern all things. We’re a boutique games studio based in London, UK. Pass on some effects, and return anew to deal with events that your previous captain put into motion.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition