Subnautica

One of the best games of the 21st century. This shit is TERRIFYING. The story is good, the creatures are so scary WE shat our pants. The world is also beautiful.

Took me like ten days to find cave Sulfur but other than that it’s one of my favourite games.

Would be 99/100 if I hadn't played it on PS4 before it got improved for PS5 and the last third of the game (prawn suit) was simply too buggy for me to give it a perfect score. Other than that it's one of my fondest gaming memories and it single-handedly made a pandemic winter fun for me.

Amazing game. Great atmosphere and immersion (you genuinely feel scared and isolated), good world design, nice music, good graphics, good progression, amazing open world. Basically only flaw of this game is that you often find yourself swimming back and forth looking for things and getting lost. Which is really good for immersion at times, but sometimes can be frustrating. But really really good game.

Subnautica is one of the better survival games out there. The ocean feels alive and the exploration presents an awesome loop that perfectly balances fear of the unknown, a wish to explore further, and the need to accumulate gameplay resources. However, I do feel the game falls flat in the late-game, the plot is unnecessary at best and intrusive at the worst, and, this is a me-only problem, the audio is stereo. Give me surround-sound audio or give me a reaper leviathan right outside my seamoth!

not for me

Each time I came back to the surface, I always found myself a little less afraid of the depths. A bit rough around the edges but still a very pleasant adventure with occasional intense moments.

it doesn't really deviate from the explore, collect and improve-formula other genre entries offer, but there's yet something special about it. is it the colourful, beautiful, immersive underwater world? is it the awesome sound-design? is it the array of pretty cool tools and gadgets? or the way you're introduced into the world by just the right balance of freedom and plot? ok, yes, that's it. all of it. it's great.

in its genre unique, it set a new milestone of immersion

The buggiest game I've ever loved after early access and years of patches, even now.There are a bunch of issues to bitch about, like the UI, or the game's weird habit of randomly ignoring your inputs, the clunky movement system, the nearly unusable data bank systems. All of that is forgivable because the exploration and sense of immersion are so strong.