Subnautica

Subnautica is an interesting survival game set on an alien ocean planet, where players must gather resources and survive in a dangerous environment that is still rather beautiful. Players begin the game with essential equipment and a damaged escape pod. They must upgrade using crafting stations to create everything from equipment and vehicles to habitats while maintaining oxygen, food, and water. Exploring is deeply rewarded, as the game’s design is an open world in which anyone can swim, making it easy to find an incredibly detailed ecosystem filled with regular fish and everything from colossal and terrifying sea monsters like sharks to the small, brave, and friendly. When players go deeper into the ocean, new biomes such as crushing depths, extreme temperatures, and dangerous predators also appear. Minor curses, or potential rewards, can be found in hazardous areas and require preparation, if not better equipment.

Besides that, the survival mechanics through which Subnautica primarily immerses the player, the game also includes a well-crafted story around which the game is built. Exploration consists of recovering abandoned facilities, listening tapes, and remains of alien civilizations that reveal what has happened to the planet and its inhabitants. This environmental storytelling maintains the players’ engagement while making them search for more clues that solve the storyline. Submersibles like Seamoth and Cyclops let players travel through more space and bottom.

At the same time, the underwater base distinguishes sub-mercies like Seamoth and Cyclops, letting players travel through more space and bottom. In contrast, the underwater base distinguishes customizable abodes for storage, crafting, and rest in Aquanox. It’s an oddly captivating system, where hours meld into minutes and minutes into seconds due to the game’s gorgeous aesthetics, an incredible soundtrack, and the vast, eerie world that Subnautica puts players in.