ALT A Fallen London illustration of a city skyline with a broken Ben Ben poking up out of a river. Text reads Fallen London, city of a thousand stories.

ALT A bat! He's little, brown, and his mouth is open with his little teeth sticking out!

ALT A cat! Black, with her mouth open showing her teeth, and green eyes.

ALT A rat! Hiding up against some wood looking cute.

ALT a tweet from someone called 'Cum' with the handle '@shootingHotCum' that says, "i think ur next game should be sunless floor ur train is just on the tracks like a normal train @failbettergames" to which we replied, "thank you for the idea, twitter user @shootinghotcum"

ALT Y'know thanks to you I've seen probably a hundred Fallen London tagged posts and it's the one fandom(?) that I've gleaned absolutely nothing about. Just no idea even what the premise is or what's going on. Just every once in awhile I see a post like "Going to the Wonder Emporium to spend 500 golden candelabras in order to convert my 52 cursed weasels into 51 Slightly Less Cursed Weasels and 51 Minor Weasel Curses before my elegant masquerade dinner with Mr. Rodents and Mrs. Phantasmal Goop" and it's always tagged Fallen London. I understand nothing but I also sorta feel like that's the point.

ALT A screengrab of the job posting, which reads: What We Can Offer We have a very experienced, very collaborative writing team. We talk a lot about what we’re doing, how, and why. We celebrate each other’s successes. We’d love to learn what you have to teach and to share our knowledge with you. Failbetter is committed to offering employees a safe, respectful environment, a healthy work-life balance, and transparent decision-making. We make our games without crunch and enthusiastically eliminate systemic sources of overtime. We don’t talk over one another in meetings, and we don’t expect all our employees to share the same hobbies and cultural references. We won GameIndustry.biz’s Best Places to Work award in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

ALT A skeleton in a top hat brandishes a chess piece at you, against the backdrop of a darkened city. Text reads: Fallen London The Roleplaying Game, Coming in 2025

ALT A quote from Fallen London: "Pay far too much for a Headless Skeleton. Used, says the attached card." A tumblr user adds: "what do you mean 'used'. what do you *mean* by that." We add: "someone has used it hope that helps"

ALT A screenshot from a Steam comment which reads: Is there gonna be gay stuff in this game? I don't want to buy it if that's the case.

ALT Screenshots from the text-based browser game Fallen London against a moody backdrop of thousands of candles in a cave. Reads: You now have 1x a Queer Soul, and then, A twist in your tale! You are now A Union Sympathiser.

ALT Three quotations from the web game Fallen London, placed against a moody background of thousands of candles in a cavern. "This will begin a storyline that you will later greatly regret. Don't do it." "Playing this branch will give you an unsatisfying ending in another, as-yet-unwritten story. You will not know which story; it may not come out for months, or even years. This is permanent and irrevocable." "This is not a wise choice."

ALT A dirigible flies through a storm towards a vertiginous city in a stalactite. Lightning crashes over the city and flames on the dirigible roar. Text reads: Fallen London. Firmament.

ALT A darkened map of a place that looks like London, but isn't.

ALT a tumblr screenshot: grimm-the-tiger "Hey, you know what would be really funny?" -Average Fallen London PC moments before disaster failbettergames - average fallen london writer moments before writing the worst thing you ever happily chose to do in a video game

ALT The inside of an iron ore mine in the Forest of Dean, UK. A tall cave with ragged rock face, metal mining equipment that's old and rusty, and spotlights picking out the sharp shadows of the walls. In the background there's an artwork on the wall of a simplified figure, painted in ochre.

ALT The most recent map of Fallen London.

ALT A map of Fallen London from the middling period of its development.

ALT A map of Fallen London from early in the game's life.

ALT During the internship, your focus will be on helping us test Mask of the Rose in its last few months of development. Mask of the Rose is a visual novel, but unlike most entries in the genre, the story is extremely responsive to player action, and it has some unusual and intricate systems – the player can assemble outfits that subtly or less subtly shape how others perceive them, and there’s a whole system for crafting stories which players can use to propose a solution to a murder, or to sell tales of romance to London’s shadowy Masters. These unusual, intricate systems make it an interesting and rewarding game to test. That said, you’ll probably have the best experience if you enjoy games with strong storytelling elements. You’ll be working closely with our Principal QA Specialist, Lesleyann White. Lesleyann has worked as a tester with half a dozen companies and studios across games and the wider software industry, and for two as a QA training co-ordinator.

ALT a tumblr text post: Fallen London writing is 30% the most bone chilling terror you've ever experienced, 20% soul altering beautiful and poigiant prose, and 50% your character and the narrator looking at each other and trying to decide if the funny option is worth suffering the consequences of your actions

ALT An in-game text describing the Weasel of Woe "It's not the weasel's woe. No, this weasel brings *you* misfortune." Watchful -250 Shadowy -250 Dangerous -250 Persuasive -250 Kataleptic Toxicology -10 Monstrous Anatomy -10 A player of Chess -10 Classwork -10 Shapeling Arts -10 Artisan of the Red Science -10 Midrithacy -10 Greatly increases wounds buildup

ALT A screenshot of a Tumblr post that reads: Buying property in fallen London is wild you just show up to the real estate agent like “okay what can I get for 600 rats on a string, 200 jars of screams from the dawn of time, a couple hundred human souls and gossip about half the population of london” and they’ll be like “okay that’ll get you a broken down boat on the zee shore without heating and with a 70% chance of death” and you’re like “sweet sounds homey” #fallen London#anyway I have upgraded to a bigger home#hope the bookshop customers like the sound of my army of weasels

ALT It's meat

ALT a screenshot of a steam review which reads: things you can do in this game: - sabotage the british empire - steal honey from space bees - have your flying train torn in half by angry space bees - be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by a giant nonbinary space bat to help them unravel the secrets of life - fly into the sun and get turned into glass - fly into a different sun and get vaporized for trying to learn the secrets of the kingdom of the dead - fly into a black hole and be forced to put on a play by the thing living inside it - lead a rebellion and help undermine the prison industrial complex - learn the secrets of the universe - trans your gender at a party in the middle of space - perform as a clown in the circus - join a cult - join several cults - receive mental healthcare from demons - receive mental healthcare from wizards - smuggle escaped slaves to freedom ... and more that we can't fit in here!

ALT The Steam page for Sunless Skies, including a lovely banner declaring us one of the best new releases of 2019.

ALT a screenshot of a discord chat: so, after seeing this tweet I had a silly idea to buy those 1500 cheerful goldfish as well an inserted tweet: good morning to the player who accidentally bought 1500 cheerful goldfish, and their 1500 cheerful goldfish I mistyped the amount... an image of a fallen london inventory icon showing 11500 cheerful goldfish, with some emoji reactions expressing lols

ALT A YouTube thumbnail image of Victorian London with illustrations of four colourful characters: A humble-looking newspaper seller, a pretty barmaid with wild hair, a scruffy pickpocket and an arrogant-looking gent in a top hat.

ALT A collage of artwork in the Fallen London style: numerous Victorian faces, silhouetted London landmarks, unusual objects, and lamplit backdrops.

ALT a steam review for mask of the rose which just says "the b in lgbt stands for bat"

ALT a tumblr post and reply: you ever play fallen london for so long in the morning that you forget your own real life actions aren't part of an action system "i can't come, i'm out of actions" does work for many situations

ALT A travel poster depicting the ruins of the London Horticultural Show, a broken signpost and twisted framework of a glass greenhouse, all speared by a giant stalactite.

ALT A dark and stormy promotional poster illustration for Fallen London's new expansion, Firmament. A dirigible with coruscating engines flies away, towards angry stalactites. More than one of them seems to contain a civilisation: windows, spires, roofs. Fog, smoke and shadow are broken only by the pinprick windows, lightning and the dirigible itself, all doused in driving rain.

ALT A nightmarish London cityscape with an ominous building in the distance. Text reads: "And then the sky was full of bats. More bats than I thought could exist in the world."

ALT a tumblr post which reads: Mutuals, followers, everyone, You should play fallen London. It's free, it's a browser game, it actively forbids you from spending eight hours on the game in one sitting, the writing is literally better than any novel or book or anything I've ever read or heard, you can be nonbinary, my pronouns in fallen London are "si-, er, mad-, er, yes" you can be a communist, you can be the equivalent of a billionaire, it's possibly the best self insert roleplay game ever, your marriage options are up to you, your character can be gay, bi, pan, poly, hell I married quite possibly hundreds of people all at once, anything, and only one of the stories genuinely makes you want to throw your phone off the tallest building in the world! There's hundreds of amazing stories and plots, your character backstory can be anything you choose, and the roleplay options for your character are numerous.

ALT A picture of the Steam new and trending charts showing mask of the rose at number five

ALT A screenshot from Mask of the Rose featuring a young woman in mannish Victorian dress, a tie and an updo, next to a very large figure in a camel coloured cloak that obscures its eyes. Text on screen is their conversation: Griz: The whole Ministry of Accounting and Recounting is under Mr Pages' direction. Response options: Acknowledge the introduction Express gratitude for the job Stand well back and make no sudden moves

ALT A screengrab from Fallen London which reads " The familiar, unmistakeable sensation that something terrible is about to happen"

ALT A skeleton in a top hat taunts you with a chess piece, against a subterranean city backdrop. Text reads: Fallen London, the roleplaying game, coming in 2025.