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SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is a steampunk, lovecraftian and exploration game developed and published by Failbetter Games.
Released on January 31st 2019 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 3,320 reviews of which 2,806 were positive and 514 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition into these genres:

Steampunk Lovecraftian Exploration RPG Story Rich Singleplayer Atmospheric Top-Down Indie Survival Adventure Rogue-like Trains Dark Kickstarter Space Sequel Crowdfunded Alternate History Choices Matter

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
  • Storage: 4500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.9+
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 4500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 4500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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June 2025
It's worth playing for the writing alone: its hilariously satirical with an absurdist bent. Imagine if Douglas Adams wrote a book about Victorian Era space trains. That said, I have two critiques. The first is the gameplay. The majority of your playtime will be spent watching your engine travel (SLOWLY, even with the best engines) from point A to point B, mostly retracing routes you've traveled many times before. Occasionally this will be interrupted by an enemy you need to fight, but the combat mechanics just aren't that entertaining. Partly, this is because the game encourages you to grind/farm make-work quests (deliver X good to Y port!). Even for the quests that aren't procedurally generated, you'll be revisiting the same cities over and over because you keep getting new quests that link back to them. There are a handful of quests that can be completed entirely within a single port, but even those force you to retread the same circuits because they have time gates ("you must come back in two weeks to continue this quest..." sometimes a dozen times or more). That leads to a high percentage of low-entertainment play time, even if there are some real gems in there. The other problem is that the game really gives you very little agency, for a role-playing game. You make tons of choices, certainly, many of which even have at least the appearance of significant moral valence. But at the end of the day, very little of what your captain does makes a meaningful difference. You might favor this faction or that faction, but neither of them have a defined, relatable philosophy to make your choice anything but arbitrary and regardless of which you choose they'll either end up in a permanent stalemate (e.g. tacketies vs stove pipes) or else victory by one side or the other changes nothing on the ground (e.g. Psalmists vs Widows at the Wellmouth). Time and again, your character is faced with systemic injustice, and has the same three options: 1) Get on the bandwagon and grind others beneath their feet; 2) push again and again for incremental changes that make no difference whatever in the actual problem; or 3) start violent revolutions that only make matters worse. You can't fix anything. You can't save anyone. All you can do is wallow in suffering as the world decays toward its inevitable death. For a novel, that would be a reasonable artistic choice. You could use that philosophy/setting to explore all sorts of fascinating things about the human condition. But for an RPG, categorically denying the possibility of real agency produces a deeply unsatisfying experience.
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May 2025
it's sunless sea but with trains and a dodge mechanic. autism paradise.
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May 2025
Sunless Skies is the definitive answer to the question "What game you like but not sure you can recommend?" Imagine reading a VERY interesting book, but every chapter or so you have to throw the book across the room and go pick it up to continue reading it, and sometime you throw it too hard or too far so have to read the book from the start again. But if you can stick to it, the book is worth it. If you like reading, game atmosphere and don't mind A LOT of fetch quests, you can enjoy this game.
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April 2025
Breathtaking art, amazing writing, and great horror, I think this is one of if not the best cosmic horror game on the platform.
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Dec. 2024
Very, very weak recommend. Sunless Seas was able to carry me further and in better spirits. (Two of those spirits were crewmates we ate along the way.) Sunless Skies has some very nice writing, it has some engaging characters, it also really tries my patience with how it sets up story chains or even the basic grind of making money. For whatever reason, I found Sunless Seas managed to intrigue me into exploring the unknown in ways Sunless Skies has never done, although it would be very wrong not to mention there are a lot of improvements to this game over its predecessor.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ on Steam.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition received 2,806 positive votes out of a total of 3,320 achieving a rating of 8.15.
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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition was developed and published by Failbetter Games.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Explore additional content available for Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition on Steam.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
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