This construction mode is one of Subnautica’s many strengths, providing a robust and intuitive toolset that allows you to build seabases however and wherever you want to.
It soon becomes clear that you’ll not be able to just sit in the floating escape pod waiting for your rescue, and you set out to explore the planet and build bases underwater. Alone on an alien world, you rely on your Emergency PDA and sci-fi equipment to survive, gathering resources from the sea bed, fauna, and flora to make sure you get to see the next day. The core gameplay revolves around Survival, where hunger and thirst are a constant worry, as is oxygen.
Subnautica’s home to several game modes of varying survivalness, from the permadeath Hardcore to the unlimited Creative mode. As you submerge your head under the waves, it slowly sinks in that this beautiful and vibrant subaquatic world may also be your grave. There is nothing quite liked it, from the moment you eject in a escape pod from the doomed spaceship in orbit to the first time you dip your toes into the ocean, bustling marine sea life passing by. A fantastic survival title, a polished and beautiful indie game, a terrifying and charming experience - Subnautica is a game of opposites, a paradox amongst a sea of straightforward and similar products. There are very few games in the world like Subnautica. Courage is going forth and acting in spite of it. Every time I didn’t, every single time I opened the hatch and dove into the azure abyss below, I looked fear straight into the eye and smiled. You can either fight it or succumb to it, closing the game instead of risking venturing into the deep dark waters where almost everything wants to kill you. When you are dropped on a planet completely covered by water headfirst into the big dark blue, your first instinct is fear.