HelloThe game is beautiful and atmospheric like everyone else said. The writing is elegant and in-depth with a bit of humor, I feel like I'm reading Sherlock Holmes. My cons are: The creatures/ships to battle are way too seldom. If your goal is to collect specimens it takes days. And yes the battle system is clunky but I guess that's the point, to make it feel like a real, old ship. Like other reviewers, I've been playing a couple hours a day for a week, and even when not dying, have not made it even close to 5% to getting a new ship, other than that joke dinghy. I understand this is a rouge game, which is supposed to be unforgiving and repetitive, but with the slow speed of your basic ship and the ridiculous tiny payouts from your port reports, it gets aggravating. I know there are the quests but how to save for a 3000 ship with 10 echos per report? The game feels great though. I will keep at it.Update: I've kept at it, and I've given up. Getting even a few hundred echoes takes a ridiculous long time, meanwhile you have to slog back to London for usually little payback. I'm sorry but some games make me want to throw the device. It's beautiful, but for me the advance curve or whatever is too annoying. Thanks for a game with nice music, graphics, and dialogue/writing though

I played this game on Steam, and now on my iPad. It's still excellent. Yes, the game CAN be unforgiving (that's the entire point), so it makes you extra cautious when you exploring a new area. The slowness of the ship (at FIRST) can add to this sense of vulnerability, which is why this game is fun in the first place. Once you upgrade your engines, or do the quests to get 1 of 2 very good engines, the world opens up. Note: to the dude below (like all reviews) who says "Game crashes immediately." Not true. They are A. Using an old model that the game doesn't even support. B. Are at the max on memory so the tablet can't even provide resources to actually run the game. Or C. They are lying. You see this in EVERY review section. And it's never true, unless backed up by a LOT of similar sentiments. To this day, I haven't yet had an app game crash repeatedly. Don't give that nonsense below ANY credence at all.

For most new players, Sunless Sea can seem unforgiving and nearly impossible to play. The struggle for resources like fuel, supplies, and echos can be a seemingly dauntless challenge, especially in the face of losing your sanity. However, Sunless Sea isn’t insurmountable. The Sunless Sea is a game about stories, not thrilling high octane pirate battles. It’s richness is in the writing and the text. The “choose-you’re own-adventure-style” of narrative gives a thrilling experience as you make notes to try and figure out which choices lead to glory and which lead to death. There is a deep lore here that weaves an intricate and beautifully haunting narrative. The story itself is like the underzea: dark, deep, haunting, and full of amazing beauties waiting to be discovered. Don’t play this game for the action, but play it for the atmosphere. I’ve played the games countless times and sunk many hours discovering every secret.Is this game existential? This old zea captain was very surprised by the answer! I found myself actually preparing my character for death and setting up my mansion, possessions, and will so that my scion would be able to use my legacy as a jumping off point for their own adventure discover new things in the underzea. What other game makes a character actually plan for their retirement, death and ultimately how their next character would start? What a beautifully crafted idea. Note to the Developer:I know you all are busy working on Sunless Skies but please take some time to release the Zubmariner expansion for the iOS. I know your deep dark dwelling fans would appreciate it. Lots of Love-Captain Horace Gloom

Excellent game. Beautiful, clever puzzles, quick advancement to ever more interesting challenges if one is bold and clever.I've had this game for several months and I am still finding whole new adventures, new avenues. It is cool that the way the game evolves as an experience, it continually opens new perspectives of play.At first, it is a simple exploration, figuring out how the boat works, finding strange, and sometimes finding unbeatable opponents (I remember how proud I was for fierce sea [I mean zea] battles... backing up a very damaged ship through a narrow curving channel, while shooting at an opponent four times my size). Then it was learning the commerce of the zea and how to improve my ship, thrive, and then excel. The stories are a lot of fun, the choices are clever, and bring in some self reflection about the ethics in games decisions. The scoring and rewards is clever and subtle. One can create interesting characters through the choices, and thereby attract unique challenges and rewards.Clever interface. The writing is good. Clever. Funny. Once in a while I have to look a word up. That is surprising. :)