Failbetter Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Failbetter Games has published 2 titles including SUNLESS SEA and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition (12,954 total Steam reviews). Its indielist catalog is led by Adventure, relevant for developers researching indie Adventure publishers and Failbetter Games submissions. Submission status is not verified.

Failbetter Games is an indie game publisher. indielist tracks 1 title on its label, together holding 9,510 Steam reviews. Its biggest title by Steam reviews is SUNLESS SEA, with 9,510 reviews (2015). It has published games from 1 studio, including Failbetter Games. For a developer deciding whether to pitch, the first thing to weigh is portfolio fit: which genres and what scale of project Failbetter Games has actually shipped and supported to launch, all of which indielist lays out on this page alongside its studio relationships and signing history. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so studios can judge fit before pitching and investors can trace the label's signing activity across genres and years, the kind of publisher to studio to game connections that are slow to reconstruct from storefront pages alone.

Failbetter Games has published work from 1 studio (Failbetter Games), and indielist records each pairing as an edge in its publisher-to-studio-to-game graph. An investor can use that to trace which developers a label has backed and how its roster has grown release by release, while a developer can check whether the publisher already works with teams of a similar size or genre before sending a pitch, which is a strong hint about whether a cold approach is worth the effort. Each linked studio page in turn lists that studio's full portfolio and its other publisher relationships, so the network around Failbetter Games can be explored outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list, and the same graph powers the "similar publishers" suggestions that help a developer build a realistic shortlist instead of pitching one name at a time.

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