Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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 3,307 reviews of which 2,794 were positive and 513 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 Top-Down Atmospheric Indie Survival Adventure Rogue-like Trains Dark Kickstarter Sequel Space 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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Jan. 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 read 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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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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Dec. 2024
Mixed feelings on this one. Although there are some serious improvements over sunless seas when it comes to the game loop and general QoL, the game takes some serious steps back regarding atmosphere and moment to moment writing. The more you dig into the world, the less interesting it seems to get, which is completely opposite to the previous game in the series. It's still pretty good, but yeah.
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Sept. 2024
The problem with Sunless Skies is that the cosmic horror and purple prose feels ungrounded, and thus not effective. Sunless Seas, while introducing an alien setting, had many grounding elements that the player understands without explanation. The ship, harbors and darkness mechanics are all mundane concepts. It escalates from the known, to the unknown, to the unknowable. Things that players make assumptions about — that humans can walk in the sunlight— are suddenly challenged and fantastical elements of the world are revealed — the people of the underzee are so adjusted to darkness that sunlight is painful and addictive. Discovering the Dawn Machine was genuinely terrifying and shocking. Sunless Skies feels unreal from the very beginning. A train through space is already strange and fantastical, and they try to escalate with every new spectacle. The purple prose becomes so detached from reality that it just becomes words, a pretty but meaningless poem. And that's really sad, because there are some genuinely cool and interesting concepts. The mining of time, the demon bees, everything at the Magdalene's etc. It improves upon Sunless Sea in mechanics, with not one but three different maps and tons of new features. The battle mechanic is a lot more fun than Sunless Sea. But what holds these games together is the writing, and the writing falls short. Still, worth a play-through.
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June 2024
I feel as though Ive made no progress in the game after 44 hours and without a frame of reference it feels disheartening. Ive explored and gotten used to the Reach, but once I reached Albion i felt like this was the peak that I reached. I found myself in a frustrating loop of dying and trying to build up to Albion all over again. Maybe my play style is inefficient or I just didnt learn how to best make use of all the port encounters along my journey. Hung up my train conductor cap when I found myself not enjoying the game mechanic of traveling the stars with my train. Which really fucking sucks because I love engaging with the games writing and all the cool encounters and characters found in it. I still think it was really fun so please give it a try at least. Also not so hot take here but I think cannibalism is okay after running out of supplies numerous times in my playtime.
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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 2,794 positive votes out of a total of 3,307 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 does not currently offer any DLC.

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 does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
22.99€
8.2
2,794
513
Online players
37
Developer
Failbetter Games
Publisher
Failbetter Games
Release 31 Jan 2019
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