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Sonar Shock cover art

Sonar Shock

Raphael Bossniak · 2024-05-24

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 24, 2024 (Linux), May 24, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Submarine’s haunted! Hunt and be hunted in this horror dungeon crawler inspired by the decay of the Soviet Union (and immersive RPGs from the 90s).

81%
positive of 238 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 49% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (59 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 25,636 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 238 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
515120242026Week of 2024-05-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$3.992024-05-242026-07-092024-05-24 — best price $7.192024-05-31 — best price $7.992024-06-27 — best price $6.392024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-10-31 — best price $6.392024-11-07 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $7.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $5.592025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-06-27 — best price $5.192025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $5.192025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
75.5%
earned "Submarine's haunted!"
9.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3302%31

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FPSRPGActionHorrorCold WarAdventureSubmarineAction RPGAtmosphericExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.