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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Look I'm late to the party but this is...maybe the best game I have ever played? It's gorgeous. It's complex, the writing is sharp and funny/devastating as required. It's not AAA but so many AAA games could learn from how well the designers understand how to construct a game.”
— a player, Steam review · 177 hrs played“Recommend for its unique atmosphere and beautiful writings. A great novel ruined by its gameplay. Doing chores to earn resources that unlocks some lore you like and, more chores nobody likes. Don't get fooled by the game trailer. It appears to be focusing exploring and battle.…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“I remember being pretty unimpressed on release, the main criticism of the game not respecting your time held true, and honestly it still does. But we now live in a post AI world, and as the quality of writing in videogames takes a nosedive games like these really begin to stand…”
— a player, Steam review · 117 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:45 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Unity Security Vulnerability Patch
Platform: PC (Windows / MacOS) Build Version: 2.06.454aad8 Release Date: 20/10/2025 This update addresses a security vulnerability recently found in some versions of Unity. You can read more about it
Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game
Hello, delicious friends, Sunless Sea is turning 10 years old on the 6th of February, if you can believe it. Sunless Skies is already 6! My, they grow up so fast. We're having a celebratory sale in ho
Small Narrative Patch / Epic Announcement - 27/06/2024 - 2.0.5.6e8c8ff
Platform: PC (Windows/Linux/MacOS) Build Version: 2.0.5.6e8c8ff Release Date: 27/06/2024 Sunless Skies is now available on the Epic Games Store. There are a number of narrative fixes that have been in
Mask of the Rose now has a demo!
Today it’s been exactly a year since Mask of the Rose was funded on Kickstarter, and we've just released a demo of the first act, available right now on Steam! Get the free demo on Steam, for Windows,
Sovereign Patch 15/12/2021
Tech bug fixes Your headlight will no longer pass through solid terrain. We’ve made some changes to address the crashes seen when starting a new game on MacOS builds. Narrative bug fixes It is no long
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Steampunk · Lovecraftian · Exploration · RPG · Story Rich · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Top-Down · Indie · Survival · Adventure · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.failbettergames.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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