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Static Dread: The Submarine

Static Dread: The Submarine

Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.

Released Aug 14, 2026 Developer solarsuit.games Publisher Polden Publishing Platforms Windows Psychological HorrorHorrorStory RichAtmosphericRetro
View on Steam ↗ $11.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

81.3%positive358 reviews
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“It was a short, fun game! Voice acting was pretty good overall, and Michaels voice was very calming and I wanted nothing bad to happen to him. I was engrossed in the story and found myself enjoying the rather simple crew management and sonar sections. It looks like the small…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Recommended · 12 found this helpful

“Initial impressions, a step forward and a step backward from the first game. On one hand, the gameplay is better. The tedious resource management is largely gone, replaced by managing crew and having to do the odd minigame. No where near as annoying as the first game's constant…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Not recommended · 81 found this helpful

“oh no, that was not good. i loved static dread: the lighthouse, but the submarine totally flails and flops very disappointingly. i'm also very suspicious of some of the other reviews on this game, between the em dashes and calling this game an upgrade or somehow more than the…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

112all-time peak
0 25 50 41 avg · Aug 2026

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

45achievements
39.2%median completion
5.8%rarest: Half-Life
93.5% of players 87.5% of players 80.6% of players 77.1% of players 71.7% of players 70.1% of players 68.5% of players 66.2% of players 59.3% of players 53.5% of players 53.5% of players 51.2% of players 50.9% of players 47.1% of players 46.8% of players 46.3% of players 45.5% of players 43.6% of players 43.1% of players 43.0% of players 40.3% of players 39.8% of players 39.2% of players 37.6% of players 36.0% of players 35.0% of players 34.7% of players 34.3% of players 32.1% of players 31.8% of players 31.6% of players 28.8% of players 28.3% of players 24.7% of players 23.5% of players 20.2% of players 18.1% of players 15.5% of players 14.5% of players 14.4% of players 13.9% of players 13.5% of players 8.7% of players 8.3% of players 5.8% of players 93.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
93.5%Captain's Report — Save the game for the first time
87.5%The Accident — Survive the submarine accident
80.6%Figurine — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
5.8%Half-Life — Hidden achievement
8.3%Sharon Unhinged — Hidden achievement
8.7%Encounter with the Unknown — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$11.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$11.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US11.99 USD
EU12.25 EUR
UK10.75 GBP
Australia16.95 AUD
Canada14.25 CAD
Japan1,600 JPY
Brazil33.99 BRL
China42.49 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$6.3 Brazil Canada Japan Australia US EU UK≈$14

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 21, 2026
🦑 Bundle Up: Static Dread x Stygian

We've teamed up with Fulqrum Publishing and Misterial Games to put Static Dread: The Submarine , Static Dread: The Lighthouse and Stygian: Outer Gods into one bundle , so you can lose your grip on rea

Aug 20, 2026
Patch 1.0.2

Hello there! Three major updates we're rolling out based on your feedback: Added a lower-difficulty option. You'll find it in the settings, and as a separate dialog when starting a new game. This mode

Aug 17, 2026
Patch 1.0.1

Hey everyone! We're rolling out our first big patch, fixing the most critical issues you reported to us over the weekend. Critical Fixed a bug where the Captain's interactions were missing after loadi

Aug 15, 2026
Important hotfix

We discovered in some of your reviews a dangerous bug that in certain cases broke the story sequence and allowed players to interact with an object that shouldn't have been interactable. Thank you for

Aug 14, 2026
small hotfix

It's really small — the fix reduces the chance of a rare story event that was triggering too often. More QoL fixes coming early next week. Thanks for playing, and please leave us your feedback so we c

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAdventure, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsPsychological Horror · Horror · Story Rich · Atmospheric · Retro · Lovecraftian · Indie · Dark · Choices Matter · Singleplayer · First-Person · Surreal (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Korean *
ControllerFull support
Achievements45
Official sitehttps://solarsuit.games/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows OS Processor: Intel Core i3 or analogue Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 1050 or analogue Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: