Failbetter Games has released a new trailer for their narrative-driven adventure RPG, Sunless Skies.
Featured above, the developer shared the game’s launch trailer ahead of the game’s release this week.
This follow-up to Sunless Seas takes the action to outer space in Failbetter’s ongoing Fallen London series. As with their previous game, Sunless Skies has a heavy focus on exploration and choose your own adventure-style encounters. Manage your ship and crew in a gothic horror universe full of eldritch abominations, space pirates, and rival agents.
Here’s a rundown of the game:
Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.The High Wilderness is a wondrous vision of space: shifting, wind-swept ruins where the laws of the cosmos are not as we imagined. The stars are alive. They are the Judgements: vast intelligences that govern all things. But they are dying. One by one, something is snuffing them out, leaving their thrones empty.
Unfettered by trivial things like gravity, the Victorian Empire have pushed their tendrils into this new world, and their ambition is savage. They have built a new Sun. The Empress Victoria reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time. Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. Will you support her majesty and the establishment, or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds?
Key Features:
- Multiple, intertwining stories with a depth and richness unlike anything else in games, inspired by CS Lewis, Jules Verne, Lovecraft and HG Wells
- Lush, hand-drawn 2d art to match
- Four giant regions to explore: celestial wilderness, impossible industrial empire, pagan midnight expanse, and the mysterious Blue Kingdom.
- A choice of play styles: build a lineage of captains as each dies, or reload your most recent captain and continue
- Key remapping and full controller support
Sunless Skies is already available on Windows PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam and GOG for $24.99. It’s currently in Early Access, but will be updated to its final version on the 31st.
