Hello, delicious friends

The official tumblr for Failbetter Games. Mandrake, Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Mask of the Rose. None of our artwork or writing is genAI; for our sins, we do this all by hand.

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We’re showing a game at Gamescom for the first time. Cor! Thanks IndieArenaBooth for having us!

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Return to University today in Fallen London! 

For a while, it's been technically advantageous to never finish your University storyline. We've sorted that out, tidied everything up, and added some new activities besides.

The University has been a bit of an outlier for a long time – very few other parts of the game remove access to certain activities once you've progressed past their moment in the spotlight. But once you'd solved the mystery at the heart of the University storyline, that was it – its associated activities were also gone. Coupled with the University activities possessing some genuinely useful benefits, this all resulted in a structure that, for some players, incentivised not playing or finishing the relevant storylines so that they could retain access to desirable resources.

Our changes today aim to bring the University more in line with our current design sensibilities, and make it feel a little less like a container for a late-game player's laboratory. We have:

Accelerated progress through the 'Term Passing…' activities, so that completing a term no longer takes so many actions;

Removed the Sudden Insight effects from the 'Talk to the Porters' branch in 'Investigations in the University';

Released a new version of the 'Term Passing…' activity that is available once you've finished the University storyline (and restored your academic reputation).

The new 'Term Passing…' activity combines the highlights of the existing activities (wine-tasting at Summerset! 'Fun' with the Stoats! An eternal and ill-understood game of something called 'cricket'!) with a chunk of new writing, exclusive to this later stage in the game. Dispute noise complaints against your laboratory, test your students in the Correspondence, and impress other departments with the notes from your scientific voyages. And, yes, perhaps even chat to the Porters. They may have an insight or two to share.

If your 'Featuring in the Tales of the University…' is 30 or more, you can go back to University today and see what's transpired in your absence. If you find yourself banned from the University, you'll need to pursue a Voyage of Scientific Discovery at zee, and earn your way back into academia's good graces.

[thegreatyin]

for those not in the know; on june 16th the fallen london dev team released a roadmap. this roadmap contained a single comment about a "hidden trinket released in the past few months" that nobody, across the entire game, has found.

it has been two and a half weeks since this roadmap.

we still have not found this trinket.

[failbettergames]

we’re pretty confident it’ll turn up in the course of general play but it’s also quite nice for us to know there are still crannies in the game that people haven’t dug into :)

[landofwindandthrowingshade]

Griselda Smith turns to face the camera

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Canonical honey hatman

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[whitachi]

Realized I never posted my recipe for Zzoup on tumblr! It's up for free on my soup patreon, and if you like it you could possibly subscribe to get 100+ other soup recipes, and a new one every month!

"The colour: old blood on snow. The taste: paprika, mushrooms, irony. The recipe: winewound chanterelles, exile's rose, paprika, pork stock, lament-onions, hanged men's tears, and some salt."

I had a lot of fun making this one and it's absolutely delicious! @failbettergames, what do you think?

[msh07]

O bitter and tender Queen, Our Lady of Pain.

[viric-dreams]

It looks very polite...

[rosegeode]

I love when there’s clearly something wrong but it’s actually so normal though

[failbettergames]

same

[neoria-sama]

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it is so hot here

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It's Fallen London Roadmap time!

This one covers everything you can expect in Fallen London for the next few months, including news of our humble offering for the period-not-currently-known-as-Estival, and the final chapter of Firmament. 

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Mandrake looks so cool, I look forward to playing it! I was wondering if we could expect any spookiness in it, despite that not being the genre? I'm sure it'll be fun either way, I just Love how good your games have been at delivering a good spooky moment!

Thank you! We're definitely hoping to deliver a little of that. The level of darkness we're working with is something we've taken to calling 'fireside menace'. It's something like the feeling of being told a scary story by the firelight, while a storm beats at the windows outside. More on this as we progress through development!

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Festivals Mini Survey

Could you spare a few minutes to tell us your thoughts about festivals in Fallen London?

Take the brief survey! (Especially if you only come back to the game to play a festival!)

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Someone told me if I saw the masters referred to with he/him pronouns in objective narration its an error and I should report it. Is this true?

you can report such things to [email protected] if you like

[failbettergames]

i know mandrake isn't even out yet but i need to warn you that it's very likely that myself and others will be deeply abnormal about Hob "little chimney baby man" Halfling and there may be demand for some sort of plushie that people can hug, squish, throw against walls, etc. i'm already so curious about his deal and need to squeeze him like a beanie baby

understood, relatable

[landofwindandthrowingshade]

For just one day, everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. And then there were spiders

[failbettergames]

sometimes, spiders!