Subnautica is an excellent first-person open-world adventure survival game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment, assisted by Gearbox Publishers. In November 2014, the game was first released, and as it was not finished, it still had many bugs and glitches, such as when Floaters (a jellyfish-like creature) became more terrifying than a Leviathan. The game gives the feeling of being stranded at sea, all alone. Unfortunately, this gorgeous game is still only single-player, although people are hoping that when it comes out in 2024, Subnautica Three will be multi-player.
During the intro of the game, you start in the Aurora, a giant spaceship making its way to an undisclosed location. Unfortunately, while making your way across the planet 4546B, a mysterious entity strikes the Aurora. Fortunately, you escape in a life pod before the Aurora explodes in front of your eyes. You wake up from being unconscious to see your life pod on fire; you grab the fire extinguisher and put out the raging flames. After the smoke settles down, you can leave your pod – leaving you staring at an empty world entirely filled with water and the remnants of the Aurora.
The game is now in your hands, and you can do whatever you’d like. Starting with plummeting into the ocean to find some limestone to get your first materials. With said materials, you can now upgrade some of your gear. The one thing I don’t like about how the game starts is that you have to get Creep Vine Clusters, which most new players won’t know where to get them. Aside from that, the start game was amazing, being one of the first games that I have played where it didn’t matter that I had no idea what I was doing, yet I was still progressing.
I love Subnautica, and one of the main reasons for it is because of how many secrets there are in the game. For example, the Giant Cove Tree; located in the Lost River. Only on my fifth run of the game did I find it. Not only the tree but there are also lots of teleporters scattered around the map, most of which I have not found yet. Another great thing about this game is the graphics. They’re always smooth when I’m playing the game and never buffer, not once. One more thing is the storyline; I mean, it’s definitely not as good as some storylines in other games, but it’s great, nonetheless.
As for my final summary of Subnautica, I would say it’s a nine out of ten for gameplay, eight and a half out of ten for graphics, and six and a half out of ten for the storyline. Therefore, a great eight out of ten for Subnautica. I think that my rating for how I feel about this game are ever so slightly biased because of how much I enjoyed playing this game. I’m also not considering many of the flaws in the game, like when someone found a bug that allowed them to speedrun the game in under ten minutes from glitching through the floor or the fact that your P.R.A.W.N. Suit often gets stuck in caves with no way out. But alas, I still think that Subnautica deserves the eight rating, as it’s an incredibly well-designed game.