
It helps that death means something, because that elevates the stakes when you’re one direct hit from a yawning hole opening up in your hull and some hideous monstrosity is circling around for another attack. It earned a 90 in our review, "because of how brilliantly its disparate elements combine to produce exciting stories, from scrapes you survive by the skin of your teeth, to moments where your own hubris gets you killed.

Like Sunless Seas before it, Sunless Skies is part roguelike adventure, part interactive fiction. Release date: 2019 | Developer: Failbetter Games | Link: Steam
