- Gameplay: 156 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story: 101 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 47 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 11 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 381k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
I mean this game is all about exploration, crafting, building bases, heck even submarines to go in the deeper parts of the ocean all while having its horror and survival aspect!
-Narrative/Worldbuilding: The Story itself is not how you would think stories work(after all, the game is not a story game, but a survival game), yet despite the fact that this game IS indeed a survival game, the story is rich, I personally enjoyed it even though it doesn't seem like a top notch this time.
The visuals of this game is pretty insane with all the differente biomes.
Subnautica offers a lot of great things, be it the exploration, the world design, the immersion especially via the sound effects and the soundtrack.
Subnautica is the best of what survival games have to offer providing balanced difficulty (an illusion we'll get to later), freedom of exploration, and a near-perfect narrative direction.
-Technical Performance: I should be quiet about this because of my own pc, but I believe this game does not require much to run, FPS optimalization is solid even for a Unity game, so I can't criticize much.
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What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Single-player
Controller
- DualShock Controller Support
- Full controller support
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Remote Play on TV
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- Steam Trading Cards
- VR Support
- VR Supported
Platforms
- Windows
- macOS
Valve device support
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