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Sub Rosa
Developer Cryptic Sea
Sub Rosa is a multiplayer first-person shooter about tense deals, double-crosses, and the occasional high-speed car chase. From the Steam store page
204 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
44
Mixed
80 positive · 100 negative
95% range 37–52%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 80 | 100 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,900 of 2,838 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
44% recommend · 79 yes, 101 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 180 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (2,339 of 3,390 positive).
Players say Sub Rosa is one of the funniest and most unique games they have ever played. [1][2][3]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
this game has given me some of the funniest moments ive ever experienced. I'll play for 1 hour and get like 40 clips. please make it free so this game actually has players
- [4]
literally one of the funniest games ever and I watched it die in front of my eyes RIP
- [11]
I mourn this game everyday. It could have been lightening in a bottle but instead its just a golden memory. I will forever miss the days of being called racial slurs in Italian accents and doing drive-byes at the burger joint. Good times. Only giving it a neg review bc it's been left to rot. RIP Subrosa
- [9]
a one-of-a-kind Multiplayer Experience™ squandered by a neglectful developer. this game should not be sold at full price (let alone at all) because it's practically abandonware now - with a dead playerbase and no updates to change that, the only person you will have to play this with is yourself. do not buy this.
- [7]
Being dead honest, make the game free. There is a game on Roblox Called No Big Deal that is inspired on Sub Rosa, and there is a lot of traction to it already, this means that people have interests in games like this. The game is dead, i paid 60 bucks for this game and i can't even play it because no one is playing. Making this game free with things that can be bought would totally make this game revive and get as …
Summarised from 34 of the 204 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
44% of the 180 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Sub Rosa. The complaint that keeps coming up: player base is dead, making it hard to find matches. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 204 · most liked firstthis game has given me some of the funniest moments ive ever experienced. I'll play for 1 hour and get like 40 clips. please make it free so this game actually has players
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would recommend if this game wasnt abandoned, go play no big deal on roblox if you want this game for free and with active updates
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you're gonna abandon a gem after bungling the gameplay cycle at least have the decency to make the game free and hand it over to the modders and community who care
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mourn this game everyday. It could have been lightening in a bottle but instead its just a golden memory. I will forever miss the days of being called racial slurs in Italian accents and doing drive-byes at the burger joint. Good times. Only giving it a neg review bc it's been left to rot. RIP Subrosa
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's a greedy thing to say but truly if the project is abandoned, either due to the lack of players or just a lack of interest in further development. i think it would be huge for this game to go free, and see if it slowly rebuilds its audience. absolutely hilarious and unique game, plenty of love in these reviews below. everyone is just sad because its empty :( if going free would do numbers maybe that would inspire some future content. or at least to appease the big fans that remain :) <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →once i become rich i will buy the rights to this game and start a studio to turn this game into Frankenstein monster so it can become the game i wanted it to be
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Being dead honest, make the game free. There is a game on Roblox Called No Big Deal that is inspired on Sub Rosa, and there is a lot of traction to it already, this means that people have interests in games like this. The game is dead, i paid 60 bucks for this game and i can't even play it because no one is playing. Making this game free with things that can be bought would totally make this game revive and get as much attention than it ever had. I saw this game 5 years ago in a youtube…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Release the source code or give the game to another dev that wants to continue the game, dev a crybaby just abandoned the game!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play the Roblox version, it's better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →alex (bald) austin getting mogged by roblox devs in 4k
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Roblox's "No Big Deal" by UltraCorp hasn't been abandoned. Play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a one-of-a-kind Multiplayer Experience™ squandered by a neglectful developer. this game should not be sold at full price (let alone at all) because it's practically abandonware now - with a dead playerbase and no updates to change that, the only person you will have to play this with is yourself. do not buy this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dev could've made hella bank on this game if he focused on making the game, instead his retarded ass decided to abandon it and make a 2d skate game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey when is this game coming out of early access you pieces of ♥♥♥♥! Good concept but EW… imagine putting your early access game that will never be out of early access on sale for 25%. 25% for a game that’s hasn’t been updated in years GO ♥♥♥♥ YOURSELF! Game should be 5$ for a dead game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make the game free, There is a Roblox rip-off with 2k concurrent players. Selfish dev, make a donation page or something when you make the game free to play, I paid $20 for this game. I'm sure many other people did as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is dead and gone but what I dont understand is why the hell is it still $20?? Even with this summer sale going on currently the game is ONLY 25% off wtf even is that bro the game is dead may as well make it free or a few bucks and it may have a chance to come back somewhat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The dev found a golden goose and decided to drown it, hopefully someone takes makes a sub rosa clone in the near future and doesn't decide to abandon it as it starts getting popular.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the hell out of this game. Its sad to say that but the games gone to ruin since its hay day, the stupid chud dev is working on slop games instead of his Magnum Opis.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →as much as i love this game, it's completely dead. you'd have better luck with "No Big Deal" on roblox
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best games for creating funny situations between players. Rest in peace, it had so much potential
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →literally one of the funniest games ever and I watched it die in front of my eyes RIP
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thoroughly abandoned, first by the developer and then by the player base. Check out No Big Deal on Roblox instead, and no I’m not joking.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as it pains me to say This is abandonware, and you will be playing by yourself. Rest in Peace, to the good times
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →played it when it originally came out, played it during the 2020 player spike, and now can't play it at all because apparently the dev stopped caring! huge potential locked behind incompetence it seems!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly was a fun game and idea while it was still popular, But the developer "Cryptic Sea" likes to make multiple games and then abandon them before they ever get finished to work on another game. No reason in buying this now, And even if the dev comes back for one update it'll still be years before the next one. Don't support this kind of practice.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →look at my hours, this game was fun when people played it but dont buy it until you know people will be on edit: thanks for the updoots!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is one of the best games you'll ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ play, it's a shame the game is ruined from the severe chronic alopecia of the developer
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developer has a long and notorious habit of abandoning their games for multiple years at a time, with very minimal content updates between. The game literally is being maintained by the community at this point, with RosaServer (completely reverse engineered from the game itself) being the only actual way to play without immediately dying to someone using lasers and/or other misc exploits. Or just, yknow, griefing you. This has happened four times with this game /alone/. Four times. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →probably top 10 game ever made, but the developer abandoned it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crazy how a dead game still cost you $20
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →abandoned, big potential
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunate that the devs are too stupid to realize the potential of this game. Go play "No Big Deal" on Roblox. iI's better than what became of Sub Rosa and it's also free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if I had a dollar for every person still playing this, I probably wouldn't be able to afford another copy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually very sad this game has been abandoned. Was one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. Never found another game that scratches this itch.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cryptic Seethe (Alec Baldwin) abandoned and let this game die, He blocked me on twitter, big sad. I had met the best business men and women known to MANN in this city, but to bad they sadly haven't been seen in 3 years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish that tomorrow the sun shines brighter, the remains cool and easy temperature. I wish that tomorrow every song sounds better. I wish that tomorrow sugar stopped rotting our teeth. I wish that tomorrow that earth spun a little bit slower, that the days and seasons lasted a little bit longer. I wish that tomorrow checked in on his precious makings, shook every hand, smiled into the glowing eyes of the heaven bound. Tomorrow water feels like peace when it travels in your body. Tomorrow…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm gonna miss you, buddy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its no big deal 💾 ______ a social deception game based off Sub Rosa
neutral · AI labelView post →No updates in 3 years. World mode is the worst mode. Classic Sub Rosa is better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the fact that this game isn't free after not being updated for like 4 years is crazy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →devs abandoned the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rest in peace, old friend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept, dead game Do not buy it, it's long forgotten by the devs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Game was one of my favourite games to play but over time i noticed less and less severs and players i just couldn't another game to scratch that itch when i first played this game.The first time i played this game i picked a world sever and joined.Within 2 mins of me playing i saw some guy in a suit get given a white disk.I walked up to him and asked what he was doing, he said terrorism then proceeded to walk into the gun store and blow up. that was my introduction to sub rosa
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →was actually really fun back in its prime, unique too. dead now and the dev abandoned it to make some slop though. I'll never know why devs move on from their most promising projects to garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game but should be free to play and its not early access there just never going to come back and fix this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev abandoned the game and tried blackmailing the community into giving his new (horribly boring) racing game, Stunt Derby, good reviews if we wanted this game to get more updates. Not cool. Especially when that game still hasn't released and it seems like this dev abandoned game development as a whole.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →didn't play much - sad its gone
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll miss this game man, it's so sad to see the devs just drop this game and let the community fade away like it's truly sad, I'll miss the funny moments I had on this. Thank you to the people who played this game you truly made it the most enjoyable experience of my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alex austin will burn in hell for his crimes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is very good* * when US people are awake and its weekend, and when the man who shall not be named is not actively ddossing the masterserver
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back in my day...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun business game that unfortunately has almost no player base left. The only reason why I don't recommend is because of that fact. Otherwise, this game is hilarious and goofy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truly sad to see this abandoned despite its massive potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game, ruined by a lack of content and players. Do not spend your money on this game because you will not get to experience it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very sad how they abandoned this game i had alot of fun with someone on this when it was alive years ago
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →please let there be another game like this in the world the mechanics are so good ive been a fan for years
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Game, Unfortunately dead and unplayable in its current state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware that was stretched along far, far too long. This games hayday was 2016/2017. There's beating a dead horse and then there's playing Sub Rosa in the current year. Do not buy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Men taught me how to jerk off properly in this game 10/10 would jerk it again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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