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Subliminal
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Genuinely surprised to see negative reviews for this game. The levels are beautifully designed, the game has great graphics, great sound.. Once you get the hang of the puzzles, which should be fairly early on, you can breeze through them. I went in blind so was surprised to see…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Puzzles are weak, visuals are peak, there's a mascot monster, the game is 12 dollars.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“This game is a scam. The description on the store page and the demo are extremely misleading. As soon as you get to the part where the demo ends, the game has nothing left to offer and just starts copying gameplay concepts from other games and executing them horribly. And the…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
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.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Subliminal: Episode 1 | Patch Notes v1.0.3.5 (Demo v1.5.3.5)
🛠️ Changes Improved shader compiler reliability and coverage. Added some additional areas to explore throughout the episode. These additions have been partially brought in from v1.1 and The Archives.
Subliminal: Episode 1 | Patch Notes v1.0.3.4 (Demo v1.5.3.4)
🛠️ Changes Added a new "SFX Volume" option in "Audio" settings for improved configurability. Added a new "Crosshair Scale" setting in "Immersion". Additional scaling options are in the works for the u
Subliminal: Episode 1 | Patch Notes v1.0.3.3 (Demo v1.5.3.3)
🔧 Fixes Fixed an issue causing logs to be spammed and become extremely large from DLSS messages. Fixed an issue causing the "A Seamless Journey" achievement to sometimes not be awarded correctly. Fixe
Subliminal: Episode 1 | Patch Notes v1.0.3.2 (Demo v1.5.3.2)
🛠️ Changes Reworked the "A Seamless Journey" achievement. No longer requires doing a full Memory Load reset, if the player achieved "Reality Check" beforehand. Endings that are achieved deathless from
Subliminal: Episode 1 | Patch Notes v1.0.3.1 (Demo v1.5.3.1)
🔧 Fixes Fixed a regression causing various issues loading Memory Disposal, when going through the Squeeze Path before it. Fixed a regression causing the Memory Meter to be receiving decals when it sho
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Realistic · Psychological Horror · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Mystery · Thriller · Horror · First-Person · Dungeon Crawler · 3D · Multiple Endings · Exploration (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese * , French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Official site | https://subliminalgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5 10th Gen Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 20 GB available space Sound Card: N/A