12/12/2023 0 Comments Sunless sea map![]() If you launch too early, you risk missing the opponent entirely. Combat is fairly simple – you can’t fire until the weapon is ready and you can see the enemy. Firing your main weapon is initially mapped to 1, whilst flinging your pet homing bat overboard (it will search the area for nearby points of interest) is set to Z, for Zeebat. Looking down on the world, your ship is controlled with the trusty WASD keys (or the arrow ones), whilst weapons and extras can be controlled with either mouse clicks or their assigned buttons. You click on the decisions you want to make, flipping through your journal and maps to remind yourself of missions and where in the world you are. So, how does the game actually play? Well, I hope you have a fair grasp of the English language (assuming you are playing the English version), as much of the game is played out in text boxes, presenting a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ game. This is what your screen will roughly look like when docked in most ports. Sometimes you’ll also come across more important information which will provide a greater reward, or goods and people to be moved around, or perhaps even a few smuggled curiosities.These reports and goods will keep you in gold (echoes), which allows you to grow your crew, refuel and improve your vessel. Returning to port however, allows you to recover, shop and importantly file ‘port reports’, bits of information about the ports and settlements you visit on your travels. ![]() One misjudgment in how far from home you are, one unfortunate event, or one shout of “FULL POWER” too many and you are likely to find yourself stranded in the dark, a long way from safety and slowly starving to death. Slowly but surely you become braver and braver, venturing further afield and keeping a very close eye on your fuel levels. You return to Fallen London, which acts as your home port in every playthrough, restocking on fuel and supplies, chatting to the locals and preparing for another foray into the unknown. Your first tentative nautical miles will be slow and apprehensive, only going so far as the local lighthouse or haunted house. ![]() And so you set off, with a small crew, a small ship and very limited supplies (feeds your crew) and fuel (feeds your ship). ![]() Once you decide from where you came and what your future should hold, you are let loose on the Unterzee, a large ocean based under the ground of Earth, cavernous and full of terrors. The brief snippets of lore and backstory you receive are largely down to you – have you crawled up from the gutters and are trying to retrieve your father’s long lost bones for a proper burial, or are you a former priest hell bent on writing his final masterpiece before he gets too old? Or do you not know where you came from, and remain anonymous in the busy ports and harbours that offer what little sanctuary there is? You play as a Captain (or one of a few select titles and silhouettes you can choose from), forged in the bowels of Fallen London and ready to start taking on the gods of the sea. ![]() I’ve been hooked since the first loading screen. From the get go, it’s a very melancholy game, bursting at the seams with atmosphere and mystery. I had seen a few bits here and there about it, and it looked quite an intriguing game, mixing themes seen in Dishonored and elements from roguelikes. One of the first games I downloaded was Sunless Sea. With a bit of persuading I got him to give me access to his library. My brother has nigh on 300 games on his Steam list and I wanted to play some of them. Since my new laptop arrived, I’ve put only a few games onto my ‘to play’ list. I don’t have the patience for tweaking my PC to run many games any games I do have aren’t the most recent releases. ![]()
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