Cryptic Sea

Profile updated Jun 2026

Cryptic Sea is the developer behind Sub Rosa, with 1 title on Steam and 2,852 total reviews. The catalog listed on indielist centers on Action, making Cryptic Sea games relevant for comparisons of Action developers.

Cryptic Sea is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by Cryptic Sea, together holding 2,860 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Sub Rosa, which holds 2,860 Steam reviews (2021). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including Devolver Digital. indielist tracks releases from Cryptic Sea starting in 2021. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Cryptic Sea can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, Cryptic Sea has shipped with 1 publisher (Devolver Digital), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Cryptic Sea can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.