Alec Meer
The GuardianSunless Skies review – a galaxy of terrors awaits
Published 1/31/2019
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Linux / PC / Mac - 1/31/2019
Sunless Skies
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Set a course for the heavens in your steam locomotive! Lose yourself in a changing universe where even time can be bought. A Victorian Gothic adventure for PC, Mac and Linux. It is the dawn of the 20th century, and the British Empire has taken to the stars! As the captain of a spacefaring locomotive you’ll behold wonders and battle cosmic abominations in the heavens. The stars are alive. They are the Judgements: vast intelligences that govern all things. But they are dying. One by one, something is snuffing them out, leaving their thrones empty. Unfettered by trivial things like gravity, the Empire’s ambition is savage. They have built a new Sun. The Empress reigns from the Throne of Hours, which gives her control over time. Your Captain and crew must carve out a life between the stars. Will you support her majesty and the establishment, or the working class rebels who yearn for freedom from the Workworlds? Learn who you are, in the dark. Die, and leave the world the way you want it for your successor…
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Rosh Kelly
WccftechSunless Skies Review – Out of This World
Published 1/31/2019
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Read originalBrendan Lowry
Windows CentralSunless Skies PC review: Explore the cosmos in a train in this wacky, wonder-filled RPG | Windows Central
Published 1/31/2019
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Read originalCourtney Ehrenhofler
TechRaptorSunless Skies Review – Hello Again, Delicious Friend
Published 1/31/2019
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Read originalEdwin Evans-Thirlwell
EurogamerSunless Skies review - a rather more accessible literary space monstrosity
Published 1/31/2019
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Read originalChris Schilling
PC GamerSunless Skies review
Published 1/31/2019
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Read originalJason Rodriguez
PC InvasionSunless Skies Review: Sunless And Almost Spotless
Published 1/31/2019
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