Suborbital Salvage is a procedurally generated space arcade runner game coming to Steam Deck and Linux via Windows PC. Thanks to the ongoing creative talents of developer Games Right Meow. All coming to Steam soon.
The first time I saw Suborbital Salvage, I laughed, and then immediately leaned closer to the screen. A dystopian future. A corporate job in space. A giant fish trying to eat your ship. Somehow, it all clicks. And now it’s officially coming to PC, which means Linux players finally get to strap in for something special.
Suborbital unfortunately won’t have native Linux support due to some issues with my tech stack, but it will work with Proton!
Most of the testing so far is using the real way, on a Steam Deck and an Ubuntu Linux machine, and the game is running great on both. Development is using the dev’s own framework, Playbit, on top of Love2D, which makes the whole thing feel solid. Suborbital Salvage originally launched on Playdate, and this PC version is a natural evolution of that port, not a rushed afterthought.
After a successful launch on Playdate in 2025, Suborbital Salvage is blasting its way onto Steam, thanks to the wonderfully unhinged minds at Games Right Meow. It’ll be playable on PC and Steam Deck, which is exactly where this kind of fast, skill-driven arcade chaos belongs.
Suborbital Salvage Steam Trailer
At its core, Suborbital Salvage is a procedurally generated space arcade runner, but calling it “just” that feels like underselling the vibe. You’re a corporate pilot flying salvage runs through the deadly orbit of Cetos. The job is simple: collect scrap, don’t crash, and absolutely do not feed the fish. Yes, there’s a giant space fish. Yes, it wants you for lunch. No, HR will not be sympathetic.
What really sold me is the flight model. This isn’t floaty, hands-off flying. You’re in full control of your ship’s orientation, and mastering that skill-based movement is the difference between a clean run and instant disaster. Every near-miss feels earned. Every mistake is yours. And when things finally click, you feel unstoppable, right up until the next hazard reminds you who’s really in charge.
And there are a lot of hazards. Asteroids. Space mines. Rogue missiles. Over fifty different ways for your run to end badly. This title stitches together procedurally generated runs using more than a hundred hand-crafted level segments, which means it stays unpredictable without feeling random. You’re always learning, always adapting, always one bad decision away from becoming fish food.
As you push deeper in Suborbital Salvage, you’ll move through four distinct regions, each with its own flavor of danger. And hovering over all of it is your supervisor: a cat. A deeply corporate, extremely judgmental cat who delivers over a hundred lines of “motivational” dialogue that somehow makes failure sting just a little more. It’s funny, cruel, and perfect.
Leaderboards
For the competitive crowd, online leaderboards let you prove you’re the best employee Cetos has ever seen. And if you’re more about vibes than punishment, there’s an optional assist mode that lets you tweak the difficulty without killing the challenge entirely.
Best of all? Suborbital Salvage is heading to Linux and Steam Deck via Windows PC, which makes it an easy win for performance-focused players and open-source supporters who love tight, replayable arcade titles. Blasting its way onto Steam on February 11th, 2026
This is the kind of procedurally generated space arcade runner you fire up “just for one run” and suddenly an hour is over. Fast. Funny. Brutal in the best way. Suborbital Salvage feels like it is for people who like mastering systems, chasing scores, and laughing through the chaos with friends in Discord. And honestly? I can’t wait to see how many of us get written up for feeding the fish anyway.