Sunless Skies Review | The Indie Game Website

The Indie Game Website writes: "At around the four-hour mark of Sunless Skies, I realise I’ve started making a percussion of steamboat-chugging noises as I watch my ship’s progress across the sky. I’m not sure when I started doing it. The world of Sunless Skies often strikes me like this, building my affection for inanimate objects as fast as it heightens my sense of curiosity. When I’m not making steamboat noises at my screen, I’m muttering to myself over every close shave and every weird encounter, feeling myself as much a crucial part of the narrative as its cast of weirdo characters.

This is testament to the vivid storytelling of this gothic RPG, the sequel to Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea, which manages to embed itself in the imagination with impressive ease. There is no view inside the ship provided in-game, but as it travels across the map, I can almost see my captain roaming the halls, crewmembers anxiously looking at dwindling supplies and the bat who scouts the surroundings groaning as he leaves. It’s not a perfect gameplay experience, but this attachment is only possible because of the incredible bank of passionate writing at its core."