
With near-perfect execution, Subnautica is a must-play for any adventure fan.
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Verdict
97%
Steam
84
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (97% positive from 341K reviews)
Healthy player count of 2,824 concurrent
Critically acclaimed (84/100 critic average)
Rich open world to explore
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
Subnautica is a 2018 action-adventure survival game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. The player controls Ryley Robinson, a survivor of a spaceship crash on an alien oceanic planet, which they are free to explore. The main objectives are to find essential resources, survive the local flora and fauna, and find a way to escape the planet.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 2d ago
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
I've never played a game that scared me more than this. Any time I was in open water and couldn't see where I was going, I was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my pants. Besides how terrifying this experience was, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Despite the fact the game is twelve years-old, the graphics are stunning and every single location is crafted to perfection. The sea life you encounter is full of variety and quite intelligent, especially the Warpers. The base building system if fairly in-depth and the vehicles available for creation all serve their niche perfectly. I personally found the cyclops to be the most enjoyable to operate. There is a story and I think the writers did a fine job with it. It's nothing too crazy, but there is a solid narrative which is more than I can say for some other titles. Just as a sidenote: I LOVE the alien structures you can find throughout the game. They remind me heavily of Forerunner architecture from the Halo series, so props to whoever designed them. Achievements are quite easy with most of them just tied to the story, but there are two missables. One involves release a cuddlefish you've hatched from an egg. There's five in the game I believe, so just look up a spot where you can find one. SPOILER: [spoiler] The second one involves releasing a time capsule. When you build the rocket, make sure to create one before you launch. As you launch and finish the game, the capsule will be ejected.[/spoiler] I refuse to suffer alone, so everyone should play this beautiful game.
recommend to others; good balance of exploration, resource gathering, lore, crafting and puzzle solving.
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