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 Developers Might Be Getting Their $25 Million Bonus After All
Krafton has extended Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds' bonus period by one year, making it more likely it'll receive its $25 million payout.
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“Pay The Creators”: Subnautica Players Have Now Taken Their Protests To The Original Game
The review-bombings have begun.
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Krafton Confirms Subnautica 2 Leak
Publisher Krafton confirms a recent Subnautica 2 leak, adding to the ongoing drama concerning the upcoming game's troubled development.
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“You All Deserve The Full Story”: Ousted Subnautica Devs Are Now Suing Krafton In "Painful Way"
"Suing a multi-billion dollar company in a painful, public and possibly protracted way was certainly not on my bucket list."
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