![]() Subanutica: Below Zero constantly pushes you to continuously improve on your survival situation in an effort to find out what truly happened in this vast world surrounded by water and ice. Subanutica: Below Zero improves upon the storytelling aspect from the first game, where instead of being thrust into the world and forced to survive and then discover what happened to the ship you’ve crashed from, Subnautica: Below Zero puts in the eyes of Robin Ayou, a scientist who is dead set of finding out the causes of her sister’s death moments after the events of the first game where the main protagonist flees the planet in a rocket. Games like Minecraft just drops you off in the middle of nowhere and you instinctually start punching trees to make some rudimentary tools and build a makeshift dirt shack for the next few nights, while some games give you a single focused goal to keep pushing you towards the endgame such as The Forest where you have to find and save your son from a cannibal tribe and Outlast, where you're an editor from a local newspaper and an anonymous source gives you a task and then promptly sending you to die in an abandoned lunatic asylum. Usually in open-world survivals, there isn’t a concrete storyline that drives the player to survive for their lives in a completely unknown world that is otherwise rich in some sort of lore put together by the developers. Unknown Worlds Entertainment recaptured the experience of the first Subnautica game and turned everything all the up to eleven to make a survival experience that not only makes you feel like the little fish in a big pond, but as the little fish in a rich ecosystem brimming with life. The astronomical rise in popularity that Subanutica has gained during its beta and full release also sparked other new open-world survival games taking place in a similar setting, albeit a much more grounded experience, with Raft placing you in a tattered wooden panel floating in the middle of the ocean and using what little objects you can procure around your surroundings and crafting them to create a self-sustaining utopia to live out the rest of your life in the open ocean infested with sharks.īut none can hold the candle to the original Subnautica, and the 2021 sequel sparked an immense amount of hype for the next chapter in surviving in the deep ocean once again. The open-world survival genre set in the great blue sea with many undiscovered horrors lurking deep below us is a genre that has never been explored before, and poses a new set of challenges to even the most basic tasks to get the players to set up a barebones base of operations. Oh, and half the ocean’s out for your swimsuit-clad behind as fish food.Ĭalling Subnautica one of the most horrifying experiences I ever had in an open-world survival game would be an understatement. Rather than just dropping you off in a middle of a forest with nothing but your fists and quick-thinking intuition to barely get through the first few days of ensuring your survival, the developers at Unknown Worlds Entertainment turns the genre on its head and instead just puts you in a burning escape pod moments away from crash-landing into the middle of the ocean and being next to the ship that you were just in not too long ago and being right at the doorstep of a radiation-contaminated zone around it. Don't be put off though because its a game that i would recommend for everyone to play.Subnautica has produced one of the most unique open-world survival experiences the genre has ever seen. Do be weary that it contains some horror aspects and also stuff like spiders, loud horrifying sounds, and downright absurdly scary fish. Overall its a very serene and calming game, with quite a few bugs, but don't be surprised when you hear a bloodcurdling scream from the other room as your kid is getting hunted down by a big fish. From what I've gathered through me and my Childs many playthroughs of the game is that it can teach you to manage resources, it pushes you to think more critically at times, and it teaches you that fighting back is both a valuable skill, and one that shouldn't be tested against the bigger threats in this game. I would highly recommend it as i found the fact that at often times, it contradicts some messages thought frequently today. Even though it is terrifying at times, its overall a beautiful and deeply complex game in terms of story, mechanics, and the fact that you need to use your head in order to solve some puzzles and or challenges. Because its all fun and games until you get the life scared out of you for traveling a little too far from home. This game is for all ages but what really matters is if your child gets easily scared. I have no idea why some of the ratings here are anything below 10, some are even 4 and up.
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