Subnautica is one of the great early access success stories. Not just because of its financial achievements – still dwarfed by some of the bigger names – but because of how it used the process to build and refine an exquisitely good game. Co-created with its players, but confident enough to maintain its creative direction, the result is one of the best games of the last few years. So perhaps it’s not ultimately that surprising that Unknown Worlds would repeat the practice for their follow-up, Subnautica: Below Zero.
Once again we’re under the sea, albeit in frostier conditions, with the first few hours and earliest biomes of a whole new adventure.
The following inevitably contains mild spoilers for the original Subnautica