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Submachine: Legacy cover art

Submachine: Legacy

Mateusz Skutnik · 2023-10-13

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.

Submachine: Legacy is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2023, priced at $24.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Overwhelmingly Positive (98% of 1462 reviews).

9
playing now
98%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

You are alone here. You will follow the footsteps of a banished lighthouse keeper discovering his descent into ruins of Submachine.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 71 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (496 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 28,757 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 29k–66k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,462 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$18.75-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $12.49 at Steam (2025-06-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 59 of 84 observed days · $6.26 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
49449420232026Week of 2023-10-01: 494 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1602026-09-15 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 14 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1094Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 109 · peak 426Nov 2023 — avg 31 · peak 87Dec 2023 — avg 18 · peak 49Jan 2024 — avg 14 · peak 42Feb 2024 — avg 23 · peak 82Mar 2024 — avg 14 · peak 39Apr 2024 — avg 8 · peak 22May 2024 — avg 8 · peak 20Jun 2024 — avg 8 · peak 26Jul 2024 — avg 14 · peak 32Aug 2024 — avg 9 · peak 23Sep 2024 — avg 6 · peak 16Oct 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 24Dec 2024 — avg 24 · peak 67Jan 2025 — avg 13 · peak 40Feb 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 43Apr 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19May 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15Jun 2025 — avg 8 · peak 34Jul 2025 — avg 13 · peak 33Aug 2025 — avg 6 · peak 21Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Oct 2025 — avg 6 · peak 22Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 12Dec 2025 — avg 6 · peak 22Jan 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jun 2026 — avg 6 · peak 26Jul 2026 — avg 9 · peak 28Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$12.492023-10-132026-10-142023-10-13 — best price $22.492023-12-22 — best price $22.492024-03-14 — best price $18.742024-11-27 — best price $18.742025-01-03 — best price $24.992025-03-08 — best price $24.992025-04-03 — best price $24.992025-06-03 — best price $24.992025-07-25 — best price $24.992025-09-11 — best price $12.492025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-10-20 — best price $24.992025-11-14 — best price $24.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-03-03 — best price $18.742026-03-27 — best price $18.692026-04-23 — best price $24.992026-05-21 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $12.492026-08-01 — best price $12.492026-08-28 — best price $18.752026-09-01 — best price $18.752026-09-05 — best price $18.752026-09-09 — best price $18.752026-09-13 — best price $24.992026-09-17 — best price $18.752026-09-21 — best price $18.752026-09-25 — best price $18.752026-09-29 — best price $18.752026-10-03 — best price $18.752026-10-07 — best price $24.992026-10-11 — best price $24.992026-10-14 — best price $18.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
91.2%
earned "Chapter I"
25.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)79025%28

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

Player tags

2DIndieLogicPuzzleMysteryColorfulAdventureDystopian FuturisticHand-drawn

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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