SUNLESS SEA

Amazing game, amazing stories and atmosphere. For anyone playing it for the first time you should know: there is a lot of reading, there is a lot of stories, whole premise of the game and content of the stories is pretty bizzare and it's written in victorian-esque english. Been playing for almost 100 hours and just started a new run!

Imagine someone took the worldbuilding of H. P. Lovecraft, the whimsical fun and commentary of Terry Pratchett and put it in an Ian Livingston/Steve Jackson "Fighting Fantasy" game book(where for those unfamiliar, you roll your stats at the beginning and read/play through the book by making choices and stat checks that lead you to different pages/outcomes and if you mess up you start the story over again, maybe uncovering a new storybit/path). Now imagine you play something like Darkest Dungeon, but after a failed OR successful run you get to keep various stats, gear and heroes to try again with a new Captain and maybe a new goal if you so choose to. Like all my very favourite games, this has some shortcomings, where if you love it you really love it, but you may also bounce off it for one reason or another. The biggest such reason would be, that your ship and as a consequence the entire gameplay moves slow. This is done to instill dread and urge you to manage your resources carefully but especially in the later game, where you are well prepared and have clear goals in mind can drag the gameplay down a bit. This is also coupled with the fact that as you are essentially playing a book with resource/risk management, the stories close to home shore become lists to work through since you've read them multiple times, although I found now while replaying the game after so many years that this bothered me way less that I thought it would. It is just another task to fulfill on my way to farther stories I hadn't gotten to yet. In essence, this is a Rouge Lite where your reward for going further in is new stories you want to see to the end, most of them having multiple outcomes that may influence others. It's a book that you have to earn to read through careful planning and a bit of luck and failure just means that you can try for different stories the next merry go round. That is Sunless Sea. And I love it.

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Love this game, the unexpected, the exploration, the stories, so many people to meet. It's really nice done.

Excelente juego, recomiendo mucho que si hablan ESPAÑOL descarguen en nexusmods el mod con traducción. ¡Es una maravilla y mejora mucho la experiencia de juego! tristemente hay veces que utilizan un inglés de literatura que hace juegos con palabras/rimas de palabras en inglés y a alguien extranjero puede ser difícil entenderlas si no es hábido de la literatura inglesa.

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A great game in general, hard, but not too much so, terrifying in just the right doses and a beautiful artstyle to go along with it! Buy with the Zubmariner DLC for best experience.