SUNLESS SEA
Fair · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$18.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$6.4566% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.87/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 9,593
- Critics
- 81 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 29% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.45 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 21.8h
- To 100%
- 123.1h 5.6x the story
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.74 October 2021
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 42 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 60% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 84 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 29 percent. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Darkwood ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition ($24.99, scores 61).
More about SUNLESS SEA
Of the 672 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 811 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 21.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 123, 5.6 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I have been playing this game for something like 12 years maybe? It was well before the text gave you hints about making huge mistakes in your story choices. I have adore this game for sending me down a rabbit hole of literature, Years later I still find books that I would never have read if not for this game , and the people who wrote for it. It is still a game I recommend to people, though with the caveat "it is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The worlbuilding, the stories, the atmosphere. It's all there. And I like to be there too.
I really want to like this game and it has a lot of very attractive elements, but I'm just spending too much time in slow downward spirals. It's not that the game is unforgiving and my captains die -- I'm actually only on my second captain. It's my captains take *too long* to die in *boring ways*. The game sits in an unpleasant gulf between "so unforgiving that it kills me outright" and "forgiving enough for me to...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1280x768 minimum resolution, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
SUNLESS SEA scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304650/sunless-seaReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.