The haunting groans from the peaceful leviathans echo through the ocean and the screams of something more sinister coming from who knows where is enough to send chills through your body and make you reconsider ever going into the ocean for real. The sound design in Subnautica though, oh my. Knowing where to lay down your bases is also crucial in Subnautica. Do you stay close to a safer zone, or risk more dangerous grounds to set up base with the promise of better resources in the vicinity? Get enough resources and you can easily set up multiple bases around the map. But that just encourages you to explore and find these things, which may be lying on the seafloor, or perhaps inside a piece of the broken ship or who knows where else. You won’t be able to descend as deep unless you have one of these mods for your sub, for instance, or have an increased pressure resistance. From there, it’s up to you to build a habitat, a sub, diving gear while also looking for mods to boost the stats of some of your gear. So you’re not completely in the dark but the game isn’t holding your hand either.Īt first, you have nothing at all, but before long, you’ll be able to build some flippers from your escape pod. That said, when you do find something of note, the game will nudge you in the right direction and clues to other landing pods can be found and tracked as well. There are no missions or traditional quests, so it’s up to you (or the help of a Subnautica wiki) to get yourself to the endgame. But you may also discover alien vents and the promise of a bigger mystery that lies ahead. The regions are so imaginative and unique, literally unlike anything you’ve seen before but also, with a sense of inspiration from our own oceans.īut what will you find in the deep blue sea? You can scan items from the crash to recreate them with your 3D printer in order to build gear and a habitat. From the eerie kelp forests to the grassy plateaus, the blood kelp zone and the mushroom forest. Suddenly, the shark-infested shallows of the starter zone don’t seem as bad. That fear of the unknown is what makes this game so great and knowing that anything could be out there trying to get you. Subnautica isn’t a horror game, but taking your tiny sub along the ocean floor and suddenly, the floor disappears into a sudden drop into the black unknown, where giant leviathans will try to eat you and the wails of unknown creatures pierce through the darkness, definitely gets the heartbeat pumping. So to take a submarine and go and explore a totally alien planet that consists largely of oceans is even scarier. In fact, around 80% of the oceans on Earth remain unmapped. We know very little about our own oceans, less so than the planets in our solar system. But the first-person view of exploring the unknown is both awe-inspiring and straight-up terrifying. And those elements are part of the gameplay loop. Too often, games have you punching rocks and building forts while keeping track of your hunger and thirst meters. To compare this to the wide variety of survival games on the market would be a disservice to this game. But the joy of the game really comes in its minute-to-minute gameplay. There is a mystery to solve here and it gets pretty wild so I won’t spoil it. The objective of the game is simple and familiar to anyone who has played a survival game before: gather enough resources to get off the planet while also discovering just what happened on this watery rock. In Subnautica, a deep-space vessel called the Aurora has crashed landed on an alien planted dominated by uncharted and diverse oceans and you, the player, are the sole survivor.
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