Subnautica
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An oppressively beautiful portrayal of an undersea environment, and a well-wrought survival game with a vaguely eco-friendly message.
A smattering of technical issues keep Subnautica from true legendary status, but only just.
Subnautica is a template for what open-world survival games should strive to be. It’s fantastical, fresh, and frightening from surface to seabed, with a story that kept on surprising me and a cast of sea monsters that quite literally haunted my dreams.
Performance problems aside, Subnautica will rekindle your faith in the overcrowded survival genre, and scare you senseless.
With a robust crafting system and several amazing secrets to find, Subnautica never ceases to entertain
Subnautica is a terrifying, mystifying, massive, and brilliant survival game.
When Unknown Worlds announced they were bringing this one to Switch we were hugely excited, this is one of our all-time favourite games after all, but it was excitement tempered with a degree of scepticism as to how on earth they'd manage to cram the entire experience onto Switch in a properly playable manner. As it turns out, we needn't have worried as this is a super solid port that - besides a few loading stutters here and there and some scenery pop-in that's present in every other version of the game - successfully delivers one of the very best survival experiences on any platform to Nintendo's hybrid console.
Subnautica is not without its issues, but it successfully manages to combine a strong sense of exploration and discovery with an interesting story hook and an exceptional soundtrack to make it one of the very best examples of the genre.
Industry Coverage
Subnautica 2 Change Will Make Leviathans An Even Bigger Threat
An upcoming change to leviathans in Subnautica 2 has sparked some debate among fans, but it will certainly make the creatures more of an obstacle.
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"The Point Of Subnautica Is Not To Kill Everything": Subnautica 2 Devs Respond To Story And Weapons Backlash
Subnautica 2 devs have responded to recent criticism over the direction of the game.
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After Years Of Asking, Subnautica 2 Fans Are Now Arguing Over Its Optional Multiplayer
Subnautica 2's optional co-op mode has some worried it may not have the same lonely feel of the first game.
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Subnautica 2 Has Ambitious Goals for Its Map Size
Subnautica 2 is planned to feature a vaster, deeper, and possibly even scarier world to explore compared to the original game.
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