Yes — Subluminal is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is Subluminal Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates Subluminal Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play Subluminal on Mac?

Not natively — Steam lists no macOS version of Subluminal. Mac players would need a cloud gaming service or a Windows compatibility layer.

Is Subluminal multiplayer?

No — Steam lists Subluminal as single-player only.

Is Subluminal on PC Game Pass?

No — Subluminal is not on PC Game Pass right now.

Subluminal

Name: Subluminal
Brand: Finite Shift
Availability: InStock

Finite Shift · February 3, 2024 · Racing, Precision Platformer, 3D Platformer, Flight, Driving

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About Subluminal

✦ AI summary

Subluminal is a 3D car driving platformer where you pilot precision vehicles equipped with space-displacing mechanisms to blast through elaborate courses at breakneck speeds. Master airborne maneuvers and unconventional paths as difficulty ramps up, demanding skill and speed to conquer increasingly wild and untraditional tracks.

Subluminal is a 3D car driving platformer about gaining speed and going fast.
Vehicles have precise maneuverability allowing you to jump in the air and manipulate your orientation to drive on all surfaces.

All vehicles are equipped with a space displacing mechanism known in Subluminal as a space displacing mechanism or SDM to propel the vehicle forward. This not only allows you to gain speed, but provides aerodynamic control and the ability to conquer any imaginable path.

Key Features

Free To Play
Single Player: Achieve the fastest time possible, in an elaborate course, with elements that allow you to traverse off the conventional path and into the air. As you complete more courses, the difficulty rises; forcing you out of your comfort zone in order to use all your skill to complete these untraditional courses as fast as you can.

Subluminal — game info

Platforms: Windows
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player
Controller: Partial controller support
PC Game Pass: Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 8, 2026

Author spent 7 years on this game but it's not worth to play it even for 7 minutes :( It's free but still not worth it... Anyway I wish Dear Author all the best and keep trying to do more better games <3

5 found this helpful

Not recommended Mar 30, 2026

Somethings that could be improved just for playing the game for a few minutes. 1. Slightly better tutoriel. The left click boost isnt listed when presented with the tutorial. Its also a bit redundent but any/all keys that do something also needs to be listed. I was stuck on the 2nd level because i didnt know i could boost to get that extra momentum i needed. This includes driving forward (w). The icons on the bottom left of your screen are also not explained. The notification teaching about grip strength and hanging onto things in level 5 could have been used in level 4 along with an explanation of the speed boosters. Tutoriels also go away with a single click which i can understand but may be better to change it to a pop up you need to exit. As for level (6)? (map name spin) the pop up got removed by an accidental click i pressed thinking it would be a normal level without one and thus did not show up again even upon resetting the level (fixed through going to main menu and then clicking "next page" to manually reset the level.) 2. Camara on the 1st level feels pretty bad. I cant see anything in the first half besides my car and the road behind me. Not even a little bit of the f…

5 found this helpful

Recommended Mar 30, 2026

This is a game about falling into the black abyss. The cars and the tracks are simply the setup...the real game is off the tracks.

4 found this helpful

Not recommended May 2, 2026

Add sex

Recommended Apr 10, 2026

pretty fun

Not recommended Apr 5, 2026

this game sucks even free i have no clue wtf you have to do its retarded

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