Careers

We’re an indie video game studio devoted to making games with stories at their heart. The company was founded in 2009; since then, we’ve become a team of more than a dozen, released award-winning premium games, and grown a browser RPG from a few choices to a 4.5 million word epic. We have been named among the best small games companies to work for by GamesIndustry.biz five times; we've also won their Diversity Award.

We’re known for Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, (available for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch), in which you play as a lineage of Victorian captains, as well as for the visual novel Mask of the Rose and Fallen London, our free-to-play browser game. Mandrake is our upcoming rural life sim in a new universe. We also made Dragon Age: The Last Court for BioWare. We make games that we love, without generative AI, and with a focus on studio sustainability.

Culture

We operate a relaxed and open culture, with realistic expectations of our team. We treat overtime as something to be used only in emergencies, and we don’t crunch. We use productivity tools (like Slack) to drastically reduce the amount of time spent in meetings.

We don’t tolerate harassment of our staff. Our community and player guidelines are robust and we have support available should any staff become the target of harassment.

We're fully remote, but enjoy seeing each other when we can. Sometimes that's at industry events like Develop, Gamescom, or AdventureX. Sometimes, it's smaller team meet ups we organise ourselves – Christmas meals in cities close to members of the team, or an annual gathering in interesting parts of the UK like Snowdonia or the Peak District.

Location

Before the pandemic, we had an office in London. These days, we're fully remote, and some team members live outside the UK.

Sometimes people ask if they can send us gifts, and we're grateful for their intentions. Unfortunately, posting them to our contact address is no longer a good idea – we incur a charge for parcels, and we'd have to pick just one team member to forward them to.