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Sublight
Sublight is a space bullet heaven roguelike, where you captain a powerful warship and carve through escalating waves of enemies. Upgrade your arsenal, unlock new ships, and experiment with countless builds to dominate the battlefield.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“So I thought this was a simple survivors clone - I was wrong. I get to really play out the feel of a huge lumbering battleship that moves to broadside its enemies. (In fact devs - why dont you add more ships with single side weapons? ) - Anyways - buy it - its good. Here's…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Played a fair amount in beta and purchased day one! Fun game to burn some hours in blasting ships and making some fun builds! Love the new bosses that have been added + the new boss weapon drops. Still more to find from what I have seen in the games trailers! You really can do…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“I want to like Sublight but I just can't. I love the idea of piloting hulking capital ships, and being able to customize your weapons on the fly. The vision is there, but sadly at this point the execution simply falls short. The most critical problem is that nothing feels like…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedLatest official news
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Sublight Week One
That’s a wrap for the first week after launch, and the numbers blew me away: 3,000 copies sold, 45,000 runs, and 138,000,000+ enemies killed. As a solo dev, so getting this kind of support out of the
Patch - 0.19.04 Bug and Ui improvements
0.19.04 Sublight! Now with a more tool tips! General Fixed Steam Cloud saves not syncing between PC and Steam Deck. Increased number of weapon bans available. To discourage players avoiding buying a w
0.19.03 - Weapon fixes and scourge balance
0.19.03 Fighter pilots have been asked not to slack off in the middle of combat zones. General Increasing weapon range now zooms the camera out a little bit more per stack. Fixed Endless bosses stoppi
0.19.02 - Balance and wording improvements
0.19.02 - Balance and wording improvements No you shouldn't try to fight the flagships :) Weapons The Scatter gun weapon tree no longer requires completion of Sector 33. The Ice cannons have been move
Patch 0.19.01 - Quick Balance Fix.
Just a quick change for store prices for balance and first time players. Tier 4 Bombers were not intended to be free. To compensate and make earlier runs a bit easier. Tier 4 Autocannons, Tier 3 Plasm
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Roguelite · Arcade · 3D · Top-Down · Action · Casual · Loot · Sci-fi · Space · Singleplayer (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer Processor: Intel Core i3 (4th gen or newer) / AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 or Vulkan capable GPUs Storage: 6 GB available space