Subnautica's basic mechanics are typical survival fare (at least in its vanilla mode), dropping you into its aquatic wilderness with nothing but a handful of basic resources. Instead, it's quite possibly the best survival game going. Subnautica is, essentially, one giant underwater level, which by all rights should make it the worst thing ever. It almost feels like a parody of other open-world game reveals, and this isn't the only way that Unknown Worlds' marvellous survival game subverts the player's expectations. (And the smouldering wreckage of the aforementioned starship, but let's forget about that for the moment). Instead there is nothing but a flat, uniform expanse of seawater. When you first clamber out of your life-pod, ejected from the doomed starship Aurora, you see no rolling plains that stretch tantalisingly to the horizon, or looming mountains that beckon with adventure. Subnautica stamps its unique identity upon the survival genre from the moment of its initial reveal.
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