My machine crashed* while the game was saving and corrupted some of the save files so I had to start over again. What it didn't handle, though, was safely doing those saves. It's got a one-save system, which always irks me, but this game handles it OK. My only complaint about the game is the saving. One of the best things about this game is braving the depths to see fantastic wonders and that's going to be a lot better if you didn't just see those wonders in a screenshot a few days ago. Or maybe look at the screenshots, buy the game, then let it sit in your backlog for a year before actually playing so you forget them. DON'T LOOK AT THE SCREENSHOTS!!! Even the shots and video on the Steam page can hurt. (If that's important to you, please look it up to confirm before buying!)Īctually, that brings up another thing. If you really want, though, I think the game had the option of turning the survival stuff off so you don't ever get hungry or thirsty. I'm not much into survival but the survival elements in this seemed more about guiding you through the game, not making you spend hours cutting down 150 trees. ![]() To those of you who haven't yet played Subnautica - how come? To those of you who played Subnautica - what did you love and hate about it? ![]() I'm definitely going to give the sequel Subnautica: Sub Zero a go just as soon as the storyline is finished up and the game is feature complete. The consensus isn't wrong! A highly recommended game, great to pick up for casual play. It maneuvers like a dumptruck and is as fragile as tissue paper. The Cyclops vehicle seems somewhat pointless at endgame.There's also some pretty rough clipping issues when maneuvering that persist even past Spider-man style whizzing around forests of underwater mushrooms. It is the most powerful, and ultra-useful vehicle in the game, and you'll suffer with it for an hour or two before "getting it". While the game has a fairly soft learning curve, the Prawn suit is a sharp spike that can (did) prompt rage quits.The critters and plant life is awesome, even if you don't like that kind of thing.Started the game with a hopeful need to settle on dry land, ended up musing about real world desalination and bathyscaphic colonization / seasteading by the end. Will change your perception of living underwater.Subnautica for me gets right in at the Goldilocks zone - just enough to move your butt to go get more, not too much to agitate and suck the fun out of the experience. There are a lot of games out there that rely so heavily on gating your experience to a pure time exhausted grind for resources to reach the next level. "Just Right" levels of resource gathering and crafting mix.You can absolutely experience a full playthrough and not see everything. The biomes and diversity of scenery is impressive.The story tends to accelerate along a curve, and things finally begin to start coming together - although pacing can be a little jarring, overall the experience was good. The story is fairly intriguing and has a slow build, but there are definitely parts where I kind of wanted to be a little more hand-holding or some nudges in the right direction rather than letting me flounder. Subnautica manages to keep that resource grind thinly veiled under an elegant push towards exploring and leaving your comfort zone, while still keeping the sheer number of required resources to advance relatively attainable. A whole heck of a lot of survival style games send you down a corridor of time-gated resource funneling that prompts heavy grinding without a lot of interruptions for actual fun. It's all about survival, discovery, and exploration. ![]() ![]() Subnautica was a series of delights and wonders coupled with panic attacks. Xbox Games Pass for PC changes the dynamic a little and lowers the cost-to-attempt risk consideration to next to nill, so I took a dip! I'm glad I did. Both of those were definitely barriers to entry for me on this game, and kept me from picking it up during various sales on Steam. The big thing that kept me from going for Subnautica for so long was the perception that it'd be claustrophobic and take place entirely underwater. So I'll dive in with the first bit and bait the hook here a little. I know I'm a bit late to this party, but what a delightful little game Subnautica was!
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