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Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · Sep 24
We're making Mandrake, a rural life sim set in a beguiling new world inspired by British history and folklore.

Now we're not in the Fallen London universe (Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies), we had the opportunity to add sunshine! And trees! 😮 🧵

#wishlistwednesday
An illustration from Mandrake. A ruined red brick archway in a lush green open space, with a river, brick bridge, simple wooden fence and dirt path.
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We'll be featured in this event, which makes a lot of sense really.
studioephua.bsky.social Studio Ephua @studioephua.bsky.social · 1d
Introducing the Choose Wisely Festival 💫

We’re returning to our first love, to host a free digital festival celebrating branching narrative games.

Join us on Steam from Dec 8-15 along with 250+ indie darling studios featuring 390+ curated titles where your choices do matter.

#ChooseWiselyFestival
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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qwertyprophecy.bsky.social
THE DARK QUEEN OF MORTHOLME is out! Experience the final boss's side of the story. qwertyprophecy.itch.io/mortholme
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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wharthur.bsky.social
Been playing @failbettergames.com's Sunless Skies and really enjoying the narrative.
I have just recruited a brigade of battle hardened rats that are both fierce and adorable! 🐀
A screenshot from Sunless Skies showing the recruitment of the Rat Brigade at the Nowhere Inn in Port Avon.
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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diptych.bsky.social
The 'Dramatic Crossroads' meme. The child at the crossroads has been replaced with the Fallen London urchin player cameo. The sunlit path leads to a detail of the Ealing Gardens header, and is labelled 'Holding hands with the horrors'. The dark and stormy path leads to a detail of the Station VIII header, and is labelled 'Sautéing the horrors'.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Oo – I’ve been looking forward to the final version of this!
austinwalker.bsky.social austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 6d
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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itshannahflynn.bsky.social
Fallen London
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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fabledtyto.bsky.social
My fav character portrait from @failbettergames.com

It just exudes so much. The Clay Conductor has been my favorite officer in my time in Sunless Skies.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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All the best to @digitalsungames.com who are entering Early Access with Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault today!

Very charming, we can't wait to play.
Save 17% on Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault on Steam
Live the double life of a fearless adventurer and a crafty merchant! Dive into vibrant dimensions brimming with shiny loot and pesky enemies. Grow your shop, tinker with weapons and gadgets, as well a...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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surrexi.bsky.social
adding "a lie is a hole in the world" to my personal list of phrases that go incredibly hard but come from unexpected places - in this case, fallen london by @failbettergames.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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voicesbyzane.bsky.social
Fallen London
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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strangelittlevine.bsky.social
Miriam Plenty from the game Fallen London, with half of a cartoon voice bubble added at the bottom to indicate she is saying the post below this
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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urthdigger.bsky.social
Doing the latest limited time event in Fallen London, and every time I see “You’ve delivered a crate to Hell” I imagine it as less hand it off to a friendly goat demon, and more blasting it to smithereens with a blunderbuss.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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In Fallen London, Surprise Packages now require far fewer clicks for repeated openings.

The possible contents of Surprise Packages remains 90% the same, with a handful of additions (and no subtractions).

If you have a backlog, time to get clicking.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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fabledtyto.bsky.social
Many thanks to @failbettergames.com for creating my favorite bat creature friend thing www.twitch.tv/fabledtyto/c...
FabledTyto - Local Bat Has A Dream
Watch FabledTyto's clip titled
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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the horror of the game is in the component parts, not just in the big scary eyeballs

(thanks for this post @surrexi.bsky.social - cc @hbomberguy.bsky.social)
a text post that reads: during steam's halloween sale i got the bundle of @failbettergames' fallen london-associated games - mask of the rose, sunless skies, and sunless sea. i've been concentrating on sunless sea first, and as i slooooooooooooooooooowly chug around trying to figure out where the moveable map squares are this time and also trying not to die again (i'm only on captain 2 so i think i'm doing good?), and i want to go at the faster-but-you-still-won't-blow-up speed because i'm impatient, but then your fuel consumption is higher and that means you might not be able to get back to port, so you have to slow back down, and a creature or another boat could show up and attack me at any point while i sloooooooooooooooooooooowly crawl across the map (and use up supplies faster because it takes more time to get places), i am constantly reminded of hbomberguy's video essay about the game pathologic, where he talks about how you can only walk, and you do so much walking, and it becomes part of the horror of the game that you can only ever walk. anyway sunless sea is a good game and the horrors (tm) are well conveyed through the game mechanics!
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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strangelittlevine.bsky.social
last night I cleared my second Fallen London ambition story, Light Fingers! really REALLY good. yes I redacted this much because I'd rather die than give away what this one is actually about. everyone play Fallen London imho
heavily redacted Fallen London screencap indicating that I have completed the Light Fingers ambition and am now "looked upon fondly"
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ohheyletusvent.bsky.social
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:

Is this cheating?
Mr. Pages from Fallen London. A figure obscured in a large brown cloak that has what looks like paint splatters on the sleeves and front. It is pinned with a brooch. Under the hood is black void with two red eyes peering out.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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deuceofgears.bsky.social
StoryNexus Worlds will go offline on 27th Jan, 2026

My game winterstrike.storynexus.com was a delight to work on for FBG. I'm grateful to Failbetter Games for hosting it and to players who breathed life into it.

I have the code dump; refactoring/updating for rerelease is on a LONG to-do list.
Winterstrike
An adventure of planetary romance
winterstrike.storynexus.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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sometimes i'm looking around the internet and something comes up which isn't from fallen london but which seems relevant
boneysoups.bsky.social Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 13d
do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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We're celebrating International Games Weeks with queer games! SO MANY queer games! Visit our blog to see this list in text format and get links on where you can get these video games, ttrpgs, and one (1) card game: duckprintspress.com/2025/11/07/i...
Text, a graphic of an orange gamepad and nine promo graphics of games over the background of the Rainbow Flag. The text reads: Our Fave Queer Games. The games are: Fallen London; Sunless Sea; Coming Out on Top; Nu:Carnival; Case 00: The Cannibal Boy; Night in the Woods; Dream Askew; We Know The Devil; Potionomics. Ten promo graphics of games over the background of the Rainbow Flag. The games are: In Stars and Time; Baldur's Gate 3; 35 Queer NPCs; Overwatch; NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…; Fate/Samurai Remnant; Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life; Dream Daddy; Mortal Kombat 1; Fallout 4. Ten promo graphics of games over the background of the Rainbow Flag. The games are: Mass Effect series; Horizon Zero Dawn; Dragon Age series; Scarlet Hollow; Boyfriend Dungeon; Assassin’s Creed Odyssey; Moonglow Bay; Amelie; Sword of the Necromancer: Resurrection; Stardew Valley. Ten promo graphics of games over the background of the Rainbow Flag. The games are: Umineko: When They Cry; Void Stranger; Celeste; Heaven Will Be Mine; Adventuring With Pride; Monsterhearts; Songs for the Dusk; Wanderhome; Thirsty Sword Lesbians; The Queer Agenda.
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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aversatrix.bsky.social
@failbettergames.com could you please dispatch a few monster-hunters to take care of this council please
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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sibyllance.bsky.social
me " @failbettergames.com should make a farming sim, none of those 'cozy' games are weird enough and have a bland Stepford vibe..."

*checks their upcoming games*

store.steampowered.com/app/3710210/...

So I guess I have the lathe of heaven now guys
Mandrake on Steam
You are the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. At long last, you’ve returned to your family's abandoned home. Make friends, tend your gardens, and put down roots. Fish, gather and d...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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futurevibecheck.bsky.social
Hey #PitchYaGame!

I'm making Future Vibe Check. An automation game where you make music.

• Factorio-inspired building meets real-time musical composition
• Production chains generate notes, beats, and melodies
• No music theory required

Steam & discord in bio
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Hello #pitchyagame! Mandrake is a rural life sim with a playfully responsive narrative.

🌳Grow plants! Here that's quite a magical feat
👭Befriend neighbours, human or otherwise
🍃Fish, gather, delve in the wilds
❔Uncover mysteries your family left behind

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3710210/...
Mandrake's lead piece of art. An androgymous figure stands in a copse of rhubarb, sickle in hand, a large, magical-looking flower in front of them. The trees behind them are in shadow. A house is in the distance, past a river, over the bridge. Text reads: MANDRAKE. A lovely bit of woodland with a dark edge to it, trees twisting and roots curving improbably overhead. In a cage of roots and flowers, a pair of pupilless white eyes glows. Gnarled hands grasp the roots. A small figure stands stoic before the captive. A lovely garden with neatly kept, pebble-bordered beds. Different plants and flowers grow in each. A figure is maintaining them. A grumpy, white-haired white man in a green hunting cloak and carrying an ornate shotgun talks to you, reluctantly. Text in a conversation panel reads: He does not speak. It looks like it's up to you to break the ice. "Greetings," you say. "I've just moved into the village. I'm-" "Morgan. Morgan Mandrake." He grunts. White-haired Man: "There's a lot of stories about the Mandrakes. That their sorcery bent the world in half, and it's never been the same again. That their follies sank Oleas beneath the waves." Conversation options follow: 1. That was a long time ago. 2. Well, I'll try not to do that. 3. Old tales can't be trusted. They are a bed of exaggeration, mistakes, and falsehood. Any truth is buried deep. 4. I'm not going to repeat my family's mistakes.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We're reposting the fun finds from #pitchyagame, which is a proven place to find your next indie favourite. Take a look!
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM