SUNLESS SEA overview

Overview

SUNLESS SEA comes from Failbetter Games and is published by Failbetter Games. It arrived on Steam on Feb 6, 2015, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

SUNLESS SEA's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 44 players at 23 September 2026 - 02:03:08 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4,030. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 83% positive across 9,561 reviews.

Language and system requirements

SUNLESS SEA is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

SUNLESS SEA has sold up to 955,000 units and has 7,623 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $11,100,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

SUNLESS SEA overview details

SUNLESS SEA combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Sunless Skies is out now The sequel to Sunless Sea, featuring hundreds more stories and improved gameplay! About the Game LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Sunless Sea is a Gothic Horror RPG with a focus on exploration, exquisite storytelling and frequent death. Captain a Victorian steamship on a vast underground sea If the giant crabs, sentient icebergs and swarms of bats don’t get you, madness and cannibalism certainly will. But that old black ocean beckons, and there’s loot for the brave souls who dare to sail her. Seek out intriguing individuals for your crew Hire unique officers like the Haunted Doctor and the Irrepressible Cannoneer. Each has a story to tell, if you can draw it out of them. Stray from the gas-lamps of civilisation Light and dark, terror and madness: spend too long on the wide, dark sea and your crew will grow fearful and eventually lose their sanity. Carve a life for your captain in a cruel and unique world A deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of stories and secrets. Find your father’s bones. Determine London’s destiny. Defy the gods of the deep sea. Your captain will die. Pass on resources from one generation to the next. Acquire a family home and a hoard of heirlooms. Build a legacy of zailors who braved the sea and lost - or, occasionally, won. Features Beautiful, hand drawn art - castles of sparkling ice, prisons perched on lily pads, fog-shrouded lighthouses and the DAWN MACHINE. Real-time combat against ships and Zee-beasts, spider-crewed dreadnoughts and sentient icebergs. Upgrade your steamship with powerful engines,…

SteamPulse editorial summary

SUNLESS SEA is listed as a game with $18.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 44 players at 23 September 2026 - 02:03:08 UTC, a tracked peak of 4,030, and 83% positive reviews.

Overview tags

ExplorationLovecraftianSurvivalStory RichDarkAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerRPGRogue-likeIndieHorrorSteampunkGreat SoundtrackOpen World

Content descriptors

Infrequent, optional text descriptions of consensual sexual encounters.

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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