Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
THE SKIES ARE YOURS
Captain a spacefaring steam locomotive as a new Victorian empire takes to the stars! Lead your hapless crew into trouble – and out of their minds. Smuggle souls. Barter for barrels of time. Stop for cricket (and a nice cup of tea).
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is the complete and definitive version of Sunless Skies. It incorporates the many additions made since launch – including new officers, enemies, engines, stories, and mascots, as well as a completely reworked region, a full steam mode for long journeys and desperate escapes, and the much-requested horn – as well as dozens of quality of life improvements.
Create your past
Choose who you were before you became a skyfarer. An urchin? A priest? A revolutionary? What brought you here, and what are you hiding?
Each time your character advances, choose another facet of their history. Were they the Black Sheep of the family? Do they have a Lost Love?
The skies are cruel. Most of your captains will die. But each will leave their mark on the world, and an inheritance for those who follow – for better or worse.
Explore a beautiful, hostile universe
Discover more of the deep, dark, marvellous Fallen London Universe, as seen in our previous game, Sunless Sea. (But you don’t have to play that first! This is a totally new story, not a sequel.)
Improve your locomotive
Your locomotive is all that stands between you and the many dangers of the Heavens. Maintain and upgrade it with exotic weaponry and equipment, like a Pneumatic Mining Array, or the rapid-fire Brassraven. Learn how to craft exotic weapons like the Wrath of Heaven from your defeated enemies. And when you have enough funds, buy an entirely new one! Perhaps you would enjoy the capacity of the Pellinore-class Trader? Or the sleek malevolence of a Medea-class Destroyer?
Fight marauders, Her Majesty’s agents, and abominations of the skies
Face rival locomotives – anything from scrappy pirates to experimental warships of the imperial navy. Battle monsters like the nightmarish Undeparted, or swarms of irate Chorister-bees. Play different factions against each other, and learn the unique behaviours of each foe. Use Full Steam mode to evade trouble or chase down your quarry.
Survive starvation, madness and terror
Manage your crew’s morale and your captain’s own nightmares. Balance your fuel and supplies against your desire to explore new horizons, or pursue knowledge, or seize riches.
Beware: we are all changed by the dark.
Recruit variously helpful officers
Populate your ship with upgradeable officers, each with their own quest to fulfill: a repentant devil, an incognito princess, an entire brigade of rats, and – dear god! – your own Aunt?! How did she get out here?
The World
Unfettered by gravity, the Victorian Empire begins to reach across the skies. It has built a new sun. The Empress reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time. Its ambition is vast; its mercy slim.
The High Wilderness is a wondrous, horrifying vision of space where the rules are not as we imagined. Winds howl through shattered celestial ruins. Fogs coil amidst stellar jungles. Industrial sprawl chokes the heavens with smog.
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.
Your captain must make their way in this impossible world as they trade, explore, fight and survive. Pick your side carefully, for you might be the thing that tips the balance of power – will you support Her Majesty's new empire, or the rebels who mean to throw off London's rule? Or perhaps you spurn such concerns, and intend to chart the narrow course between the two? Will you retire triumphant, or be lost to the dark?
Features
800,000+ words of intertwining stories with a depth and richness unlike anything else in games, inspired by CS Lewis, Jules Verne, HP Lovecraft and HG Wells
Lush, hand-drawn 2d art
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
Battle starvation, mutiny, terror and nightmares – or give in to them
A choice of play styles: build a lineage of captains as each dies, or reload your most recent captain and continue
Narrative levelling: discover your captain’s past as you traverse the skies
Earn your fortune in a unique, story-rich trading system, or risk it all to become a smuggler
Collect pets: the Inadvisably Big Dog, Useless Cat, Perfect Pangolin and more
Key remapping for keyboard and mouse, and full controller support
Who are Failbetter Games?
We’re a small British games studio based in London. We’ve been making indie games since 2009. Come with us into the dark.
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4.4
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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition System Requirements
Minimum
Recommended
OS version
Windows 7
OS version
Windows 7
CPU
Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent
CPU
Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent
Memory
4 GB RAM
Memory
4 GB RAM
GPU
DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
GPU
DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
DirectX
DirectX 10
DirectX
DirectX 10
Storage
4500 MB available space
Storage
4500 MB available space
SoundCard
DirectX 9.0c compatible
SoundCard
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Languages Supported
Audio: N/A
Text: English
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