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Sonar Shock
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).
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“This game is not without its frustrating parts, mainly respawning enemies, framerate drops and the issue of getting stuck inside geometry. While all of these make the limited save system more frustrating than it need be, the saves are still far less limited than you might think,…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Very cool indie fps/dungeon crawler/immersive sim obviously inspired by system shock, including the obtuse control scheme with no mouse look. Gets very difficult at points, and the control scheme and limited resources (including saving) make things very tense. I thought the…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“For such a punishing game, this amount of fps drop should be criminal.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
New beta live for Sonar Shock
A new beta version for Sonar Shock is live, now using a newer engine version (Godot 4.3.). I am looking for feedback, how this affects performance. You can find more information here .
Version 1.5 live
- New extra death sprite for the Liquidator enemy - Added the option to disable the slow-mo effect for critical hits - You can now access older version of Sonar Shock via the Steam 'Beta' panel - Slig
Version 1.4 live
- Fixed a rare softlock in one of the endings - New sprites for Tashinyan - Lighter now can't get obstructed by geometry - (Hopefully) fixed game crashing after the intro cutscene on some hardware - R
Version 1.3 live
- Added pathfinding option in Gameplay menu. Lowering this will make NPCs calculate their pathfinding less often and may improve FPS when encountering enemies. - Fixed an exploit allowing you to compl
Hotfix v2 live
Hotfix to fix some smaller issues: - Fixed exact health being visible without choosing the matching perk - Fixed beserk syringe visual effect not resetting after dying or reloading
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Adventure · Action · FPS · RPG · Action RPG · Immersive Sim · Dungeon Crawler · Survival Horror · Lovecraftian · Exploration · Horror · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Storage: 800 MB available space Additional Notes: Graphic Card Support for Vulkan 1.2 necessary