Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $24.99. It has been as low as $8.49.
- Story and characters: 181 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 85 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 79 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 26 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Cheating: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 3k player reviews · updated 10 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The atmosphere was beautiful, the story lines were engaging, and the prose was at the same time familiar and compelling in a way that few video games are.
Summarising the basic gameplay of Sunless Skies is easy: it's very similar to Sunless Sea.
Sunless Skies is played from a top-down view and the graphics are strikingly beautiful.
Visual and audio design are stunning.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should I buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $24.99. The lowest we've tracked is $8.49.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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