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Sunless Sea: Zubmariner

Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Dive. Take the helm of your zubmarine and set sail for the unknown! Zubmariner is the first expansion to Sunless Sea: deeper, darker, and more marvellous than anything you’ve…

90 11 October 2016

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner is an adventure developed by Failbetter Games, released 11 October 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.

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What Sunless Sea: Zubmariner is

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner is an adventure game developed by Failbetter Games and released in 2016. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sunless Sea is a survival/exploration role-playing video game with roguelike elements developed by Failbetter Games. The game was released on 6 February 2015 for Windows and OS X following a successful Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the project. The game takes place in the universe of Failbetter's browser adventure game Fallen London, in which Victorian-era London has been moved beneath the Earth's surface to the edge of the Unterzee, a vast underground ocean. On 11 October 2016, the game's first downloadable content Zubmariner was released, which allows players to explore beneath the surface of the "zee". A sequel, Sunless Skies, was announced in September 2016. It surpassed its funding…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner launched on 11 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

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When did Sunless Sea: Zubmariner come out?
Sunless Sea: Zubmariner was released on 11 October 2016 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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