Sonar Shock
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$7.08Fair
- Length
- 4h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 238 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.08 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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).
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in December 2025. 10 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 42 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Prey ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Atomfall ($49.99, scores 30).
More about Sonar Shock
Of the 224 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to July 2026.
4 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'm sad that I have to give this game a negative review but it quite frankly just does not work on the Steam Deck. You will have adequate performance up until a combat encounter happens and then the framerate will plummet into the bedrock, past robot hell from Futurama with the funny Bender man, and into the Earth's core. This keeps getting worse the longer the game goes on, and no, I don't mean a memory leak sort...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's too rough around the edges, and quite janky as well. There is a memory leak in the game too.
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, and I ended up with a stockpile of six save disks by the end. I made the game more difficult and frustrating than it needed to be, as...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sonar Shock scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2673660/sonar-shockReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.