Subnautica

Performance problems aside, Subnautica will rekindle your faith in the overcrowded survival genre, and scare you...

Subnautica is an interesting take on the survival game genre in that it takes players into the depths of an alien ocean. Players begin as astronauts of some kind but, after a violent crash, will find themselves hunting and gathering whatever they can to...

Subnautica is gorgeous and enthralling, offering rewarding progression and a fascinating world. The story is well told, and it offers a crafting system that is easily accessible even for players who aren’t familiar with survival games. With fantastical sea beasts, fun gadgets to build, and a sci-fi story that gets its hooks into you, Subnautica is as deep as its sprawling ocean.

Subnautica links progression to dive depth and it pays dividends. It also provides useful tools and varied submersibles that facilitate the steady exploration of wondrous biomes far below the...

Subnautica is one of the best survival games released in recent years, and one of the best indie games released in the beginning of 2018. With an interesting story, a variety of play modes that can tone down and completely remove survival elements and...

A smattering of technical issues keep Subnautica from true legendary status, but only...

Decades after Jaws cemented our cultural fear of the deep ocean, Subnautica emerges from Steam Early Access to fuel a new breed of underwater nightmares. This first-person survival epic by Unknown Worlds Entertainment dumps you into the water with not a...

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....

While you could argue that it's more elegant to leave these implications unspoken, I think it's a shame that the story doesn't dig into them at greater length, rather than reverting to some familiar science fiction cliches. Subnautica is daunting and enigmatic in a way few survival sims are. Its choice of setting and peculiar constraints rejuvenate a species of game that is always at risk of disappearing under a cloud of toil and mealy-minded acquisitiveness.

A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage. How we score:  The destructoid reviews...

Subnautica is a game that challenges the player with the vast emptiness of an ocean, with a healthy helping of terrible beasts that wish to cause you bodily harm, and a few mysteries that are begging to be uncovered. Set in a world full of water, the...

Subnautica harnesses feelings and fears we experience in reality and uses them to drive us to want to survive in this alien world and find our way back home. It is simply you versus the vast, unknown expanse of the ocean.Subnautica was reviewed on PC91...