Subnautica PS4 & PS5

Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc.

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Boogieman117

Rated 10/9/2025

Minecraft... but Underwater!

After years of sitting on “Subnautica” and watching many streamers enjoy their time with it, I finally came around to it in my backlog and fired it up. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I just couldn’t connect with the game after 1-2 hours of playing, as I’ll describe below. Story: As your spaceship exploded (I was on it for some reason), an emergency pod was jettisoned off the ship and you have crashed-landed on an alien planet in the sea as the only survivor. Your job, based on what I played, is to survive and build a habitat for yourself as this is your new home. Outside of being unable to repair the broken radio, I can only assume that repairing the radio would result in the same result as leaving it broken - you’re still stuck in the sea with no way out. I’m sure that there is a Minecraft-like, “Nether Dragon” ending to the game, but I had no chance of making it that far. Gameplay: Put very simplistically, take a survival game that fuses the gameplay loops of “Minecraft” and put it underwater and you get my high-level take on “Subnautica”. Gameplay (in the mode I played) danced around being dropped into a massive open underwater world where balancing your health, your food, and your water is the starting point of things to do. Load times were non-existent on the PS5, the game ran at a crisp 60fps, and the controls felt fair for the amount of things to do and manage. Building simple tools from utilizing resources underwater, you slowly begin to craft objects that help with these three things. I spent the first hour trying to figure out how not to die, only to fail from thirst and the second from being attacked by a kamikaze red eel of some sort. Inventory is scarce and decays over time, forcing the player to remake or reinforce objects with the additional challenge of managing your oxygen supply. Health, Food, Water, Air - all things to keep a good human alive became 4 separate plates that I had a bit of a hard time balancing. I realized I was a bit in over my head when, while trying to keep these four plates spinning, I realized I had an actual objective - that my emergency pod was set to explode unless I crafted a repair tool. The repair tool needed certain crafted materials, the crafted materials had to be made from certain raw materials found in the world, including a material I spent an hour looking for but couldn’t find, causing me to hit a ‘soft’ roadblock. Sound Design: “Subnautica” is not a quiet game; a light techno soundtrack accompanies you during your exploration and varies in intensity whenever certain enemies are around or during crucial moments in-game. The animals in-game all have their unique ticks and squeaks, and the constant ‘blubbering’ of oxygen from your tank is a regular thing you’ll hear 90% of the time. “Subnautica” can easily be described as a horror game (a genre I bond to like oil bonds with water), and the sound definitely ramps up that aspect - the sounds seemed to soften and quiet the deeper and more confined the spaces were, giving a ‘claustrophobic’ feel to the world. Visuals: I found “Subnautica” visuals to be the most pleasing thing about the game. The bright, tropical game’s world under the waves reminded me of “Finding Nemo” for some reason. All of the wildlife were vibrant against the sea floor, which contrasted nicely with the earthy tones of the rock formations and the like. The UI/UX were clean and organized, with the ‘nesting’ system of the crafting menus being smooth to work with. In short, this is not a bad game by any stretch of the world - this is a subjectively difficult game for me to enjoy playing. Objectively speaking, this is a good exploration game with horror elements with a familiar gameplay loop in an unusual world that requires frequent worrying about oxygen. If you like Minecraft as a survival game, you should look at this as a nice ‘twist’ on the genre. If you enjoy more linear story-based games, swim clear of this game.

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You have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and the only way to go is down. Subnautica's oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, lava fields, and bio-luminescent underwater rivers. Manage your oxygen supply as you explore kelp forests, plateaus, reefs, and winding cave systems. The water teems with life: Some of it helpful, much of it harmful.

After crash landing in your Life Pod, the clock is ticking to find water, food, and to develop the equipment you need to explore. Collect resources from the ocean around you. Craft knives, lights, diving gear, and personal water craft. Venture deeper and further form to find rarer resources, allowing you to craft more advanced items.

Build bases on the sea floor. Choose layouts and components, and manage hull-integrity as depth and pressure increase. Use your base to store resources, park vehicles, and replenish oxygen supplies as you explore the vast ocean.

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Platform:: PS4, PS5
Release:: 5/14/2021
Publisher:: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc.
Genres:: Adventure
Voice:: English
Screen Languages:: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, Finnish, French (France), German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

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