Sunless Sea is an ambitious work that attempts to capture the sheer kinetic thrill of discovery in a bottle without the inevitable entropy of player completion depleting it, and falls well short. The promise of lengthened replayability only makes the methodical pace a joyless grind at times.
Sunless Sea may take the form of a top-down nautical sim – albeit one that is gorgeously presented in atmospheric visuals and wrapped in an ominous soundtrack – but at its pitch black heart it's a very personal horror story, unique to anyone brave...
Sunless Sea truly does capture what it must feel like to be a ship's captain on a dark underground ocean - sometimes it feels exciting and wondrous, but usually it feels lethargic and dreary. I should've stayed in London and became a...
Sunless Sea is a little darker and less cheerful than its already morbid sister Fallen London, but it’s no less delightful. The Unterzee is awash with clever, well-written stories, and you’re sure to find something new every time you set sail – even if actually finding it can take a while.
Sunless Sea gives you a wonderful world to explore and packs it with memorable written vignettes. Its permadeath flirts with repetitiveness, and combat is disappointing, but it’s far from running out of ways to inspire one more trip back across the Unterzee.
Platforms: PCMy first captain in Sunless Sea was a natural philosopher known as Captain Shaq. He enjoyed a few brief moments of fame carrying news and resources back and forth between dismal ports of the Unterzee (the underground ocean which provides the...
Sunless Sea was funded using Kickstarter (just as FTL was) and thus was developed together with the community. It is an excellent little indie-game that simply is wonderful to play, as long as you know what to expect. The few issues we have with the...