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
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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Subnautica 2 Is Implementing a Feature Cut From The Original Game
The original Subnautica was packed with cut content, with one of the biggest examples set to return in the sequel as a significant mechanic.
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Subnautica 2 Early Access Starts 2025
Subnautica 2 is scheduled to be released in early access in 2025 via the Xbox Game Preview program.
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