Subnautica 2

it feels like a tech demo. first game was like 8000 meters deep? this one is 400... one crappy vehicle. empty enviroment. no way to defend yourself. my BIGGEST problem is with who bought the company, then fired the main developers and then put off early access for another year at our expense just to screw the dev team. just stay away

this game is fun but it also terrible good idea put into action terribly theres danger but you dont get scared like you use to no fear factor in it plus cant kill things 5/10

WHY IS THERE NO "GIVE UP BUTTON" I HAVE BEEN DROWING FOR 30 MINUTES! I AM CURSED WITH IMMORTALITY. ADD A GIVE UP BUTTON TO YOUR SURVIVAL GAME!

2/10

I picked this up thinking it was going to be Subnautica.. instead its a neutered weakened version of the game. Its not survival and exploration, its some twisted subversion to this alien world at the expense of the humans that arrive. You cannot kill or harm anything even in self defense. Your player must die to ensure no fishies are not hurt.

Bad game with zero identity of its own, just riding the coattails of a one hit wonder game.

Invincible Fish kill you and destroy your base. This game is about the weakest bunch of humans who rather die again and again instead of hurting a single predator. Big parts of the map are therefore basically off limits forever for basebuilding or lingering. you have to sneak and run because you can do nothing else. When this problem is solved, this maybe gets a recommendation but for now: No. If these fishes can´t die, the whole thing makes absolutley no sense at all. All the discussions regarding this topic are useless. The side defending the design descision can not understand, that the way of not killing anything can at every point be voluntary. Instead we are forced to be the most beta thing on the planet. No Domination here and just for the sake of lecturing the player. Thanks a lot but no. That was the last time I trust Subnautica for now. The first part is still by far the best one. The feeling of really beeing on another planet an not a disney adult playground. What is good? I really like the visuals and the Basebuilding mechanics. You can see, they do know what they are doing. So there is a lot of fun in playing it. But in the moment you understand the nature of its problems, it´s not shining anymore. I am still hoping, they solve this in a good way, but it´s only a little hope. They seem to be stubborn with this. I don´t know. I stopped in the middle of my first run because it became so boring. Not the world and not the game in itself but the comically hillarious design descisions did that to me. Why would I want to be the most helpless person in mankind?

Fun game and a great sequel to Subnautica 1 however I cannot recommend this game because the developers don't care about the game enough their sole focus seems to be on attracting streamers by adding multiplayer features not the game itself. I hope I'm wrong and I can come back and eat my words.

This is subnautica, but with a heavy side of AAA slop. The devs push political ideas over immersion (pacifism), so that you cannot harm any of the wild fish. This ruined the immersion for me completely. (I did not even kill fish in the original.) The unique subnautica look was replaced by the Unreal Engine look. Everything looks glossy, smooth, with a lot of bloom, not rough and wild like the original. This also made the ocean much brighter and less scary, which ruined the immersion even more. The gameplay is not bad, and the story is great, but I couldn't get immersed in the game, like I could in both the original and SBZ. This game is easily the least enjoyable of the three for me, and will stay that way unless the developers do a complete 180.