The deep sea - a place of wondrous, unexplored beauty and horrible, unimaginable nightmares. A place where creatures can be so small you don’t even see them, or so vast that you can't even believe it. The ocean is a place of both beauty and terror, and subnautica captures that perfectly.
Especially the terror. oh god why!
Subanutica is game about undersea exploration, discovery, and creation…also being eaten by alien sea monsters. You play as Ryley Robinson (I didn’t even know he had a name), an engineer who was aboard The Aurora - a spacecraft that, while on a mission, suffered massive hull failure and as a result, crashed onto an alien planet. After awaking in your lifepod and promptly having to put out several life-threatening fires, you leave your pod to discover nothing but water as far as the eye can see, aside from your smoldering crashed ship nearby.
This is fine
With nothing but your suit, a knife, an A.I. in your PDA, and your life pods fabricator (a handy little device that turns raw materials into tools items and such), you have but one directive - Survive. From here, the world is your oyster. The starting area is aptly named “safe shallows”, which is appropriate considering that the most dangerous thing here is your own inability to pay attention to your oxygen meter, or maybe that was just me.
No no no nonononononono
Now, I don’t want to talk too much about gameplay or story because honestly, discovering that for myself was one of the many reasons I love this game. It truly made me feel like an explorer marooned on an alien planet. Subnautica does a great job of letting you forge your own path. While it does try to steer you in certain directions, you are never forced to do anything. Rest assured i found everything this game had to offer was splendid. The art design, the music, the way I got eaten, just amazing. Granted there are minor bugs and glitches, some more minor than others, but nothing i felt ruined the game for me.
My prawn suit would occasionally fall through the floor and i would have to reload. Remember kids save often.
