Gryphos
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I've been playing a neat little game for the past few days, which as the thread title suggests, is called Sunless Sea.
It's difficult to describe. Kind of a narratively driven adventure game with the truly brilliantly imaginative setting of Fallen London. Basically, London has been stolen by bats and taken to the Unterzee, an ocean in a chasm in the depths of the earth. There's steampunk, there's gothic, there's eldritch monstrosities, everything I (personally) love!
As for the gameplay, it involves taking your ship out onto the zee (it's not really the sea, it's the zee — they even call sailors 'zailors') and exploring the dangerous and horrific world, before returning to port in Fallen London. It manages to invoke fear really well with aspects of worry and resource management with regards to fuel and resources. But the highlight of the game has to be the writing. Truly immersive and entertaining in its description of characters and events.
Highly recommended.
It's difficult to describe. Kind of a narratively driven adventure game with the truly brilliantly imaginative setting of Fallen London. Basically, London has been stolen by bats and taken to the Unterzee, an ocean in a chasm in the depths of the earth. There's steampunk, there's gothic, there's eldritch monstrosities, everything I (personally) love!
As for the gameplay, it involves taking your ship out onto the zee (it's not really the sea, it's the zee — they even call sailors 'zailors') and exploring the dangerous and horrific world, before returning to port in Fallen London. It manages to invoke fear really well with aspects of worry and resource management with regards to fuel and resources. But the highlight of the game has to be the writing. Truly immersive and entertaining in its description of characters and events.
Highly recommended.
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