Sub Optimal Co. Steam news

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• Review score82% positive
• Total reviews11
• Release dateMar 17, 2026
• DeveloperIt's A Sidegame
• PublisherIt's A Sidegame

Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation

Company pages: Developer: It's A SidegamePublisher: It's A Sidegame

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Sub Optimal Co. Steam news

Sub Optimal Co. news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• PATCH 1.0.2 - 22 September 2026

  Hi all, this patch provides a new information screen to help choosing a cave for your dive, along with some bug and translation fixes. 1.0.2 - Qualitiy-Of-Dive Improvements: Technical Stuff: - Fixed a bug where a player is kicked back to the main menu after finishing a dive - Corrected the final sequence brasilian translation Gameplay Stuff: New Cave Information ScreenThe choosen cave is now displayed on a dedicated overview panel in the HQ-room and the SR-room. It gives you a quick oversight with some specifics like duration, difficulty and other mentionable things. It is here to help divers choose a fitting cave for their play session. I know it's been a while since the last update, sry for that. As always, I hope you enjoy those additions. Let me know what you think or wish for in the discord, instagram or here in the comments. Have a nice dive & greetings, Dev

• PATCH 1.0.0.6 - 14 December 2025

  Hi all, this patch provides some new features along with some bug fixes. Hope you enjoy. 1.0.0.6 Qualitiy-Of-Dive Improvements: Technical Stuff: - Fixed a lot of minor collision bugs - Fixed some UI stuff Gameplay Stuff: New Lobby System You can now open and close a lobby for everyone via the "friend-invite" section in the ESC menu. It allows for a lobby name and an optional password. Everybody can than find those lobbys in the title-screen in the "search lobby" section. This way you don't need to be connected via steam friend list and you can play with randoms. Localisation Everything relevant is now translated into english, brazilian-portuguese and german. Language can be changed in the main menu. New Hats We got two new hats from our discord-server wishlist. If you want to see your favorite headgear in this game, feel free to drop it in the discord channel. Inverted Mouse You can now…

• Patch 1.0.0.5.5 - 26 October 2025

  Just a small patch to repair some annoying bugs and some typos. "Collision clipping" - bug: Should now almost be impossible for the cave to clip through the submarine walls. "Help, I am stuck in the periscope" - bug: Nobody should now be traped in the periscope view. Your typical typos: Fixed some info panel typos and the sonar C-section typos Content patch coming soon. Have a nice dive, Dev

• PATCH 1.0.0.5 - 30 September 2025

  Hi all, this patch is updating the submarine and provides some new features along with some bug fixes. Hope you enjoy. 1.0.0.5 Qualitiy-Of-Dive Improvements: Technical Stuff: - Fixed "push down" and "ballast tank down" bug. The sub should now be stable when operating those buttons. - Fixed "accidental cofffee consumtion" when in the esc-menu. Gameplay Stuff: Remote Camera Access Everywhere You can now operate the camera remote from everywhere - so it has becoma a "real" remote now, finally. Persicope Viewport Additions If operating the periscope, you now got additional cameras available. We got one camera in the front, the back, each side and one on the downside of the submarine. This provides more visual options for navigating the tight, mean, tilted sections of the caves. VoIP And Text Chat Actually pretty standard for a multiplayer focused game aye? And now available in S.O.C. too. N…

• PATCH 1.0.0.4 - 16 August 2025

  Hi all, this patch is updating the submarine and provides some new toys. Hope you enjoy. 1.0.0.4 Qualitiy-Of-Dive improvements: Technical stuff: - Target Collection, Funny Valves & Performance - Fixed damaged valves pointing in funny directions (just cosmetic issue). - Some minor performance improvements and back up stuff. Nothing you should notice during gameplay. Gameplay stuff: - Submarine Typ II - Periscope - Ballast Tanks - New Layout The engineers improved a lot of the submarines layout. So much that it resulted in a new type. You will now find a new bridge, rudder and engine section. Along with this we got new toys on board. A periscope to better understand your surroundings. Ballast tanks for going down or up without constantly pressing the "push" buttons (use them carefully, as they are not effected by the STOP button). And some emergency rudders in the front and back, in case…

• PATCH 1.0.0.3 - 19 July 2025

  Hi all, this patch is adding a lot of new little things. From just cosmetic features to new game-mechanics. 1.0.0.3 Qualitiy-Of-Dive improvements: Technical stuff: - Empty Cup Bug: fixing a bug where you couldn't refill your cup - Back Light Bug: fixing a bug where the back light in the submarine would not switch back to white - Target Collect Bug: Increased the range of backup-target-interaction to easily sync target activation Gameplay stuff: One returning suggestion from the divers was to have a little more info for navigation and general direction. Just to get a better understanding of where to actually head the sub. Also mentioned more than once, the wish for more customization and a little more to do on the sub itself while diving. So here are some first steps to improve the diving experience into that direction: - Added a 3D realtime map to the bridge of the submarine with 2 zoom…

• PATCH 1.0.0.2 - 5 July 2025

  Hi all, this patch implements some feedback and wishes from the community, as well as some further improvements. 1.0.0.2 Qualitiy-Of-Dive improvements: Technical stuff: - More FPS for everybody. Mainly through light/shadow, collision and remesh work, we now have a much better overall performance. So the only thing that should dive now is the sub and not your FPS. I also did some compatibility work, which leads to "recombining" the default and performance edition into one from now on. (you can still access the older versio via the beta-branch if you want). - Addressed a bug where a crew reported they couldn't activate the target-collection. This is now taken care of with a backup mechanic that should prevent that from happening entirely. Gameplay stuff: For this patch I addressed the accessibility for new players and little tweaks here and there: - Added a main menu. This alone should ma…

• Steam Next Fest Recap - 16 June 2025

  Thanks to every diver out there who tried the demo in the past weeks! Steam Next Fest and Demo launch, how did it go for S.O.C. ? With the Steam Next Fest almost done. I would like to take the opportunity and thank everyone who played the demo and specially everyone who did leave a comment in the community hub. More have played than I could have ever hoped for. Before putting the demo live I had no idea if anyone would be interested in such a game at all. And people actually writing feedback and what they liked and what they would like to see in the future, is such a good feeling, that it is hard to describe for me. Every feedback you wrote has been seen and is now part of the road ahead. This feedback is the most valuable thing I got from this Steam Next Fest. You know, as a solo developer (with a fulltime job interupting my development frequently) it is hard to collect that kind of fe…

• Performance Edition - 7 June 2025

  Hi all, you can now activate the performance edition of the demo via the steam beta branch. As a result of some error-reports (such as not running the game at all) it is optimized for "older" hardware. It does not need a SM6 compatible graphics card and has some other optimizations for lights, shadows, physics and reduced overall geometry with performance in mind. It also features a different color-scheme for the submarine so you always know, what version you play. If you want to play multiplayer, make sure everyone has the same version installed. Thank you and greetings, Dev

• PATCH 1.0.0.1 - 29 May 2025

  Hi all, this patch implements some feedback and wishes from the community. 1.0.0.1 Qualitiy-Of-Dive improvements: Technical stuff: - Added a VSync activation/deactivation option - Added a Framelock activation/deactivation option Gameplay stuff: - Added a device next to the target-collection button, that gives you a "shortcut" option on your way back. The "A.B.D." . Once you reached and collected the target in a cave, you can now end the dive successfully at that point by sacrificing 25% of your total mission reward by pressing the A.B.D. button. So you don't get as much XP but are also earlier done with a cave. Do as you like. And this is where you can find it. Thx to everyone for diving and have a nice day, Dev

• Demo Now Live | Have A Dive For Free - 24 May 2025

  Hi everyone, let's have a dive into this. The demo includes all functionality of the main game, one fairly challenging cave (so the cave refresh button ingame doesn't do anything here) and provides 2 level ups. I think that's the best way to test if it is a game to your likings, or not. Feel free to drop your feedback in the Steam Community HUB if you want to :) I really hope you enjoy it one way or another and have a few entertaining moments with this demo. Thank you very much and greetings, Dev

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