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If you’ve held off trying Mask of the Rose, now might be the time to give it a look. This is the first discount it’s ever had, and we’ve already updated it twice since launch with lots of work that addresses the trouble people had with it initially (not enough in-game time to do everything they wanted to) and fixes various bugs (including stopping a character from recommending rodent-based cuisine once they are on speaking terms with rats).
get to it
Get in the spooky spirit this Halloween by voyaging out into a deep, dark zee teeming with misfortune and filled to the brim with zee-beasts! And if you’ve already confident above the waves, why not try diving to their terrifying depths in the extensive expansion, Zubmariner?
Steam
29 Oct - 1 Nov
Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%)
GOG
29 Oct - 5 Nov
Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%)
iPad
29 Oct - 5 Nov
Sunless Sea (30%)
PS4
17 - 31 Oct for Europe
19 Oct - 6 Nov for North America
Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition (30% plus another 10% for PS+ users)
We hope you enjoy zailing, whether its from your desk or your couch! And if you can spare a moment to leave a review, it really helps us reach more people with our games.
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.
To celebrate the release of SUNLESS SEA on 6 February 2015, we have 3 copies to give away!
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.
Betray your crew, sell your soul to a Devil, marry your sweetheart. Survive long enough and you’ll achieve your life’s ambition.
You will die, but your legacy will live on…
Why do you want to play this game?
- A deep, compelling world packed with 200,000+ words of stories and secrets. Find your father’s bones. Determine London’s destiny. Defy the gods of the deep sea.
- Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog-shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE.
- Light and dark, terror and madness: stray too far from the gas-lamps of civilisation and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity.
- 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.
- 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.
The Rules
1. To be in with a chance of winning one of three copies of Sunless Sea for Steam, simply reblog or like this post by 09:30 GMT on 9 FEBRUARY 2015.
2. Likes and reblogs both count. You can reblog as much as you want for extra entries, but please don’t annoy your followers. (Edit: for multiple reblogs, you have to write something under the post every time for us to see that you’ve reblogged more than once.)
3. You don’t have to be following us, because it is not in our character to make people follow us for a giveaway. But if you like our blog, or our games, then do follow us! We can be delicious friends.
4. We will draw three winners at 12:00 GMT on 9 February. Winners will be selected using a random number generator.
5. You must have your ask box open, or have clearly signposted directions for contacting you on your blog.
6. Terms and conditions apply.
Good luck!
It’s launch week, so we’re giving this one final boost. Have at it!
Its murderous eyes peep from its caged flesh like convicts begging release.
The Bound Shark, An Explorer’s Guide to the Unterzee
The Behemoustache finds its prey in the kelp forests of the deep Unterzee. Its moustache is tuned to twitch in the least current.
- An Explorer’s Guide to the Unterzee
Sunless Sea launches from Early Access on 6 February.
“D__n me, it’s an ugly thing!”
An Albino Moray
Sunless Sea will be released from Early Access on 6 February 2015
The Empire of Hands is now open.
“Somewhere in the Second Empire of Hands stands an ivory shrine, established in gratitude. It soon ceases to be visited, and is quickly lost to the weeds…”
