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Bug Fixing Patch v2.2.11.3212Jan 26, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsSave files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes Bug Fixing Patch v2.2.11.3212Jan 26, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsHello, zailors! Quick little update to fix the Steam auto cloud issue that's been bugging many of you. Full notes: Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present The steamcloud_saving.vdf file will be automatically deleted when loading the game through non-Steam clients Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes Happy zailing!WDC World Oceans Day Charity SaleJun 9, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsWe're delighted to offer Sunless Sea, Zubmariner and Sunless Skies in the World Oceans Day sale this year. If you're already a Sunless Sea player, this is an ideal opportunity to pick up Zubmariner at 50% off in the knowledge that any damage you do to our imagined unterzee-beasts can be metaphorically offset by our contribution to WDC. We'll be donating 30% of our net profits from the sale event to WDC to support their conservation work.* {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/d08852b4406a3dc0c8d2469da7ab1e3c821b1f37.jpg WDC is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins. WDC defends these remarkable creatures against the many threats they face by fighting to stop whaling, end captivity, prevent accidental entanglement and deaths in nets and create healthy seas. They also advocate for the vital role that whales and dolphins play in fighting climate change and keeping our planet healthy. Their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free. If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://uk.whales.org/ You can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/OceansDaySteamSale Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! *30% of our net developer revenue from this sale will support Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705) Mask of the Rose now has a demo!Feb 10, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsToday it’s been exactly a year since Mask of the Rose was funded on Kickstarter, and we've just released a demo of the first act, available right now on Steam! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/ffc05f0b301257678331764af25cd74d2bb5e6f6.png Offering a condensed version of Act I of Mask of the Rose, you’ll be able to explore select locations across Fallen London, introduce yourself to some key characters and encounter Mr Pages, one of the mysterious new Masters who have recently taken over London, in its office at the Bazaar. At the opening of Mask of the Rose, Mr Pages has employed your housemate, Griz, who has in turn found a few pennies’ work for you as census taker. The census goes some way beyond the expected (Surface census forms never did ask if anyone in the residence was in love), so you’ll need to approach conversations with care to find out all you need to know. Demo Feedback We're really excited to know what you think about exploring Fallen London from this perspective for the first time. The very best places to talk about it will be the Steam discussion forums for Mask of the Rose, or if you want to join one of our community spaces, there's Discord, our forums, and the Fallen London subreddit. There are a few things it’ll be useful to know before you send feedback: In the final game there will be a text log, so you can scroll back through conversations There will also be audio sliders under Settings And of course, there will be saving in the finished game (the final version of Act I will be fleshed out from this version, so carrying choices over wouldn’t be possible). Spotted a bug? The demo has been through our internal testing, but if you see any bugs or typos we missed, please let us know by emailing [email protected], attaching your player log. Here are some instructions to help you find your player log. We will probably only update the demo if something pretty bad has slipped through, but this will let us fix everything before we release the full game. Thank you! Release Date News We have also announced that Mask of the Rose will release in Oct/Nov this year. Hopefully this taste will keep you going until then! As ever, your friends, Failbetter Games Mask of the Rose is now available to Wishlist on SteamOct 20, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsYou may have seen that we Kickstarted a new game in the same universe as Sunless Sea in February this year. Now we're pleased to announce that it has a shiny Steam page! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/8d4473b05d0a342fc1187cad948735af76c53f83.png Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel, so somewhat different to Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea. However, it's set in the same universe, and brings all of our expertise in writing deep, surprising, meaningful stories, this time on a more personal level. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/470e3fb4e375fdb6c763029dd24a2743b9ccf463.png Thanks to an unknown bargain, London now resides in a vast cavern under the earth. Down here, the sun doesn't shine, and Parliament has sunk into the Thames. Queen Victoria never emerges from her palace. Cats spy on their owners and whisper their secrets abroad. The fabric of strait-laced Victorian society has begun to fray. New Masters are in charge. Why are they so… tall? And always cloaked? And why are they so interested in love stories? Even death itself has a twist here: the first murder victim since the Fall is feeling much better, and keen to see justice done. Unfortunately, as the doctor who treated him immediately before he expired, your housemate Archie is the prime suspect... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6170016/6c72be26001619faf754429f96633fe4e6848a2c.png (Re)invent yourself: who were you before the Fall? Who will you be now? Create outfits from a selection of clothing and unusual accessories to unlock different story options Fall in love with a cast of diverse Londoners, each with their own secrets Matchmake among your friends, or seek love for yourself (by any definition you like) Write love stories in a delightful minigame, and use them to impress the new Masters Pick up odd jobs to earn money and gather resources. How are you at rat catching? Solve the first murder since the Fall, with the assistance of the victim Discover cosy, mysterious and magnificent locations in a dark and delicious version of Victorian London Seek deeper and deeper secrets over multiple playthroughs We hope you'll take a look at Mask of the Rose, and wishlist to find out more about romancing bats! Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition now has a release date!Apr 28, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsWe’re glad to announce that Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will be released very soon, on Wednesday 19th May. This will be the first version of Sunless Skies we release on consoles, and will also be a free major update for everyone here on Steam! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/73d46eb56bd90aee3e1786f99f8dab82638a77f4.png This is a greatly enhanced edition of Sunless Skies, containing all additions and improvements we’ve made to the game since launch as well as many more completely new ones. Here's a link to the trailer! For the Sovereign Edition, we’ve reworked and extended the starvation mechanics. Captains will now find a range of increasingly dubious gastronomic options available to them as desperation grows. We’ve improved character progression, with a new interface, a greater range of facets to define your past, and even a way for experienced captains to continue improving their capabilities after reaching the level cap. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/f2d5c3ce3451511682e9008b66b89398050fb5ae.png There are also new trading opportunities to exploit, an exotic engine for your locomotive, better performance, greatly improved gamepad support, and literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements. If you’d like to know more, we’ve included a more detailed list below. This ultimately took longer than we’d hoped, partly due to the considerable scope and partly because it turned out to be pretty difficult to achieve the level of performance optimisations we wanted. But all is now well, and we’re very glad to be able to share it with you. We think this will be by far the best version of the game for new players, and we hope the new features and many quality of life improvements will make it exciting for the veteran captains among you, too.Fallen London romantic visual novel funded on KickstarterFeb 10, 2021 - EurogamerFailbetter Games has successfully returned to Kickstarter to fund Mask of the Rose, a new romantic visual novel set in the studio's expansive Fallen London universe. A detectivey romancey story set just after London's fall, the game features a familiar setting but a new genre for the studio - something which encouraged it back to Kickstarter again to test the waters. As of writing, the project has more than £97k pledged of its initial £90k target, with 28 days of funding still to go. Read more Sunless Sea dev unveils Fallen London prequel and "romantic visual novel" Mask of the RoseDec 2, 2020 - EurogamerFailbetter Games, the developer behind the likes of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, has revealed it's currently working on two new titles, one of which is a visual-novel-style prequel to its acclaimed browser game Fallen London. Fallen London, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, unfolds in an alternate-universe Victorian London that was stolen by bats and carried beneath the planet's surface, down into a vast underground cavern system known as the Neath. Failbetter's next game, titled Mask of the Rose, takes place in 1862, shortly after London's move underground and around three decades prior to the events of Fallen London and Sunless Sea. It's a somewhat different proposition to other games in the series too, being pitched as a "romantic visual novel" - albeit one that retains Failbetter's darkly irresistible gothic wit. Read more Announcing Our Next Game: Mask of the RoseDec 2, 2020 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/7b79f9c08ae05edf04af69d0e57555e9604c2dcb.png For a while now, we’ve been working on a couple of new projects. Today we’re very excited to announce the first of them! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel and prequel to all our other games set in the Fallen London universe. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/QujJ4oVaFKI Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months after London was stolen by bats. Londoners are still adjusting to life underground. The old street signs are being erased. New ministries and new festivals are being established. The mysterious Masters of the Bazaar seem to be in charge. You share your boarding house with a few other lodgers: Archie, a medical student discovering firsthand that Death works differently here. Griselda, a close aide of the new Masters. Horatia, the landlady with a soft spot for the Neath's native inhabitants. Harjit, the local constable looking for a missing person of his own. As you make a new life below, you may find yourself visiting the underwater ruins of Parliament; intervening in a murder trial where the victim is a witness; or steering a hooded, vocabularious Master through the subtleties of a London courtship. However you choose to live in the Neath, you have your own friendships – and your own heart – to look after. The art of Mask of the Rose draws on Film Noir, Victorian photography and Blitz-era Britain, and is an evolution of the Fallen London universe’s painterly style, keeping the atmosphere of the original but with more detail and depth. If you’re a fan of the Fallen London universe, Mask of the Rose offers a glimpse of events we’ve never shown before, as part of a more personal story. You will get to explore the origins of beloved characters and institutions, as well as encounter brand new mysteries. Mask of the Rose is also an excellent introduction for players just getting started with the Fallen London universe. We’ll be running a Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose in February 2021 - sign up on our Kickstarter page to be notified when the campaign goes live, and join our Discord or forums to discuss the announcement! What about Sunless Skies Sovereign Edition? With our porting partner, we’ve submitted builds for certification on all three console platforms. This is the process in which Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft sign off on them as ready for release. We don’t know exactly how long it will take, and it’s common for certification to throw up a few issues, but this puts us in striking distance of a release! Much of the work on the console editions is being done by an external team who’re much more experienced with porting games than we are. We're looking forward to being able to share the fixes and performance improvements they've made with you! New projects, plural? That’s right! We’re working on two new projects. We can’t tell you much about the other yet, but we can say that its game mechan...Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition release updateApr 9, 2020 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2da891519e90db186ed3321018178e7cf8b21f64.jpg Surprise! Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is coming out for Switch on 23rd April and XBox One on the 24th! You may have heard that we’ve been working on console ports for Sunless Sea, and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Initially we’d expected Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition to release for PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox One first, with Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition following. Schedules on both projects have moved around a bit, meaning the release dates are now as follows: Sunless Sea comes to Switch on 23rd April Sunless Sea comes to Xbox on the 24th Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition comes to PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox in August/September We'll have more to share about the Sovereign Edition for Sunless Skies as work continues, but we hope that for now, the opportunity to return to or discover Sunless Sea is an enticing one. See you in the dark, Your friends, Failbetter Games Note: Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is already available on PS4 and Sunless Sea is available for iPad. Failbetter's next games are 'likely to play very differently' from Sunless Sea and Sunless SkiesJan 13, 2020 - PC GamerFallen London, the browser-based progenitor of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, is celebrating a decade of weirdness and wonderful prose. It's a big achievement given the declining popularity of browser games, and the trickiness in making them profitable. As well as concluding the long-running Ambition storylines, the Failbetter team hosted an AMA that hinted at the series' future.  While Failbetter isn't ready to discuss its next project in detail, CEO Adam Myers revealed that, for the next few, the studio will probably be making some big changes to how they play. "We can't say much about future games right now, but at least the next few that we make are likely to play very differently to FL, Sunless Sea, and Skies," he said. "And of course, they'll still have rich narratives with a lot of choice and consequence." The latest game, Sunless Skies, is set after people venture out into space in improbable space-faring locomotives, but the browser game hasn't quite reached that era yet. It will, however, but things might not play out the same, and Failbetter hasn't decided how the Victorian Space Age will affect the game.   "Sunless Skies' timeline is a possible future for the universe," said communications director Hannah Flynn. "As of now we don't know exactly what state things will be in come in-game 1905, but we're not worrying about re-writing the whole thing to be in space. Unless we should be? Mercy! To the word mines!" This has reminded me that I've got a loopy poet whose life has been on pause for over a year, maybe two, so I'd better get back to him.  10 Years of Fallen London!Jan 9, 2020 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/61191a447a1cedc0f12928698adbb152fe4817a3.png If you've played Sunless Sea or Sunless Skies, you might be familiar with Fallen London! Fallen London is a text-based browser game set in a subterranean city inhabited by Victorian Londoners, talking rats, and people with the faces of squids. In the last decade, it’s grown from a handful of stories to a 2.5-million word epic with tens of thousands of monthly players. We’d like to think that it’s remained popular for the kinds of stories we offer. Not just the weird, inventively horrifying world, but the fact that you get to act on fantastically bad ideas, from publishing horrendous poetry to feeding your soul to a cat. To hear more about the celebrations we have in store for Fallen London's 10th birthday, follow us on Twitter or join our Discord. Storridge's Definitely Umarked Playing Cards In honour of our 10th birthday, we've produced some gorgeous, special edition merchandise with Gametee: Storridge's Definitely Unmarked Playing Cards! Perfect for long zee or High Wilderness voyages. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/182c812423510f7bce7c851ab58e062cb2ed3fef.jpg Sovereign We're also busy working on the Sovereign update to Sunless Skies, which will be launched across PC and console. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/807200aede1abda3b4585c3ef1f5efc93d354679.png Sovereign will feature new starvation content, trading opportunities and facets, along with a redesign of the character progression interface. It will introduce a new exotic engine, the ability to continue to raise stats after reaching the level cap and an equipment stat rebalance. Along with fixes for outstanding bugs, performance improvements and a number of quality of life updates, it will feature a redesigned control scheme and interfaces optimised for controller support, plus a fancy radial to make UI navigation more intuitive. Sunless Skies Patch Notes The correct category can now always be selected when submitting bug reports. High Wilderness inhabitants and other locomotives will now keep more distance from ports and relays. Curators, Logoi and Eaters of the Dead are less unrelenting in their pursuit. Various small adjustments have been made to ambient messages. The bug report interface now includes a link to the troubleshooting guide. Sunless Games in the Winter SaleDec 20, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/1860dee8b3cffae12467098f0ff56f8cc9a0fc8f.jpg The longest nights of the year are upon us: the perfect time to lose yourself in the dark of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies! (With apologies to the southern hemisphere; they do play equally well in summer.) Sunless Skies has a recent review score of 95% positive, and has been named a game of the year by The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Yorker, Kotaku AU, Paste and Slant. It's 50% off in the sale! Sunless Sea is also 95% positive, with 66% off in the sale, and its expansion Zubmariner is also reduced, by 60% - it really completes the experience, so we hope you'll give it a go. Celebrating 10 Years of Fallen London The browser game that started it all! Fallen London, the internet's finest text-based Victorian alternative history roleplaying game is going to be ten years old on the 11th of January. In celebration, there'll be a lot of events in-game, and competitions and other diversions for our community! For starters, we've collaborated with the wonderful GameTee to produce some special edition merchandise: Storridge's Definitely Unmarked Deck of Playing Cards. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/182c812423510f7bce7c851ab58e062cb2ed3fef.jpg A true collector's item, these cards are equally at home in your parlour, at Zee or to pass the time in the Skies. If you'd like to get more involved with our birthday plans, and future plans beyond that, you'd be most welcome in our official Discord. Thank you for a phenomenal 2019. We'll see you in January! The Skies are yours, Failbetter GamesSunless Skies: Sovereign EditionOct 19, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/807200aede1abda3b4585c3ef1f5efc93d354679.png Sunless Skies: Soveriegn Edition will be released for PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in the first half of 2020! Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will include new content and various improvements, and will be released on PC at the same time as on console. Players who already own the game on PC will receive the Sovereign Edition for free. It's been a great year for Sunless Skies, thanks to your support, and we're delighted to be able to celebrate it with this enhanced edition. What's new in the Sovereign Edition? Here's our Narrative Director, Chris Gardiner, with more detail: “The Sovereign Edition will add new stories when your crew is starving. As their desperation grows, you’ll be able to try and eat a variety of unwise, unpleasant or tragic things. By that point, your mascot probably looks quite tasty.” “We're overhauling the character progression user interface, and introducing a range of new Facets to define your captain's past. Perhaps you lost your soul (and found it again), or attended a seance. Perhaps you have a hobby, or are close to rats, Devils, spies or Rubbery Men. Experienced captains will be able to continue to raise their stats even after reaching the level cap, extending the late game experience.” “We’ve made significant changes for the console versions to enable smooth and intuitive play using a controller. And there'll also be new opportunities for traders to exploit, and a new exotic engine to acquire, which skilled players in particular may find rewarding. It's a big, exciting update which we like to imagine will be the jewel in Sunless Skies' crown.” Exciting news for Sunless Sea fans, too! Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is already available for PS4; later in 2020 it will join Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition on Xbox One and Switch. All of these ports are being developed in conjunction with Nephilim Game Studios, and will be published by Digerati. We hope you're equally as excited about this news as we are! The Skies are yours, Failbetter GamesAlexis Kennedy accused of abuse by multiple women, denies allegationsSep 4, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Alexis Kennedy, co-founder of Failbetter and writer and designer on Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator, has been accused of being an abuser and “well-known predator” by several prominent women in the games industry, including an allegation from a former colleague at Failbetter. The allegations came as part of a recent wave of similar stories shared on Twitter, among them allegations made against composer Jeremy Soule and developer Alec Holowka. Kennedy has denied the allegations on Twitter and via a statement given to RPS, while Failbetter say they “believe and stand with everyone who has come forward.” (more…) See you at PAX West!Jul 18, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2d844d3cbc8a4782d36d1c16cab7dfede44e3a27.png We're delighted that Sunless Skies has been chosen as one of the ten best indie games of the year by the mysterious and influential PAX 10 panel! It's a huge honour to be selected, and it means that we're able to make a rare US event appearance at PAX West in Seattle, from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September. We'll have as many pin badges as we can cram into our suitcases. Will we see you there?Great moments in PC gaming: Nautical misadventures in Sunless SeaJun 15, 2019 - PC GamerGreat moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.   There's a brand of cigarettes in Korea whose logo features a whale swimming through space emblazoned with the excellent slogan THE SEA HATES A COWARD. I think of that a lot when I'm playing Sunless Sea. This is the game about being captain of a ship on the underground ocean called the Unterzee. You set sail from the port of Fallen London, which is like regular Victorian London only it got stolen by bats and dragged beneath the earth. On the Unterzee you discover islands where strange sisters share a lonely house, exiled demons plot against Hell, and rats engage in war with guinea pigs. Most of your time is spent between those islands, chuntering along through the dark waters while your fuel and supplies run low and the terror meter climbs. Travel is about trying new things and in Sunless Sea those new things might include cannibalism. Accept offers of mysterious food in foreign climes and you can pick up the trait "Unaccountably Peckish", which opens up the option to chow down on your own crew when supplies run out. The crew who don't get eaten aren't big fans of it, and it bumps that terror score right up. But, like eating unusual meals on strange islands, sailing around at high terror can unlock some interesting events, and this is a game that's all about collecting stories. Arriving in the Iron Republic beset by terror gives you the chance to manifest and meet your fears, who turn out not to be so bad. There's a ship's officer who only appears if you have a frightened crew, but vanishes once you chill everyone out with some shore leave. Was she ever really there?  On the other hand high terror pushes the crew toward suicide or mutiny. Which is bad. It can be tempting to stay close to shore, keep the lights on, and not take risks. But it's not that kind of game, and the only way to make a real living is get out there on the dark water and eat some more of the crew if you have to. Sunless Sea is a game about preparing for the worst, then taking the risk and trusting you'll come out of it with a story to tell next time you're in port. Like that Korean cigarette spacewhale says, the sea hates a coward. #loveindies returns in June!May 7, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/30f1ed60ed0ade4d9f2abfade174660d8b5a9457.png We're delighted to bring you another #loveindies celebration! #loveindies is a chance for players and developers of indie games to share their favourites with one another, discover some new games to play, and raise up games which deserve more attention. This year it'll be two weeks long, from the 3rd to the 14th of June in response to the excitement over last year's event. We've also introduced the #loveindies Review Hour, a global push to leave as many reviews on indie games as we can in one hour! #loveindies is open to all. Here's full participation guide. Feel free to share it with friends, your favourite streamers, or indie developers who might benefit from getting involved. Thank you as always for your support of our games and those of our fellow indies. It means the world. As ever, your friends, Failbetter GamesLudoNarraCon is coming!May 2, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/8f347b8ecd7ce7880a2ad550846ef5186f4bbe39.png We're honoured to be taking part in the first ever LudoNarraCon! LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, taking place right here on Steam. All the fun of discovering new games without the barriers of access to a physical event! From 10th to 13th May, developers from across the world will showcase their work in a celebration of interesting and innovative narrative games. This felt like a great idea to us, and we're so pleased to be selected to take part. We'll be showcasing Sunless Skies with a special pre-recorded stream, featuring interviews with Chris Gardiner (Narrative Director) and Paul Arendt (Art Director). If you want to catch the recording, it's on Tuesday 7th May at 1630 BST, with the incredible Callofcthulhu on Twitch! You can join in by watching the event live from 10am PT on the dedicated Steam landing page, and by checking out the live streams on the individual games' pages, starting at 11am PT. Thank you to indie game label Fellow Traveller for inviting us to take part! Sunless Skies overhauls Albion in the Wayfarer updateApr 9, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunBizarre, beautiful and brilliant sky-train simulator Sunless Skies is a stonking game, and a notable improvement over its nautical (but nice) predecessor, but nothing is perfect. Today, Failbetter rolled out the first major update for the game, overhauling Albion, home of space-London and the second hub area of the game. The Wayfarer update also gives officers more options for work outside of your train, adds dangerous new consequences for taking damage in battle and toughens up the survival aspects of the game. The sky is slightly less vast, but more terrifying now. (more…)