Have you guys ever heard of Subnautica? Subnautica is an open-world game that is still under development by Unknown Worlds through Steam. I first stumbled upon this game while playing RAFT, which is a very simple survival game unlike Subnautica. As a player, I felt that I have already beaten the RAFT game so I wanted a more challenging one. While reading through the forums to look for a better, more sophisticated gameplay, people suggested Subnautica.

The narrative of Subnautica goes like this: You're a human who crash landed in an ocean on an alien planet along with a few others. Each one has their own lifepods, and your lifepod luckily crashed in a safe-zone site which means that monsters will not eat yo' ass yet. However, you need to survive, drink, and build your own habitat. I mean, you can't live inside a broken lifepod forever, right? And that's where the survival part of this game begins. While exploring, you'll finally figure out the storyline of the character, your goal, and what really happened to the planet you crash-landed in. 















This is what your the exterior and interior of your lifepod looks like. When you regain consciousness at the start of the game, half of your lifepod is on fire due to the impact of the crash. You need to kill the flames with the fire extinguisher. Because of the fire, most of your usable applications inside the lifepod will be broken so you need to slowly fix them along the way. Once fixed, almost all of the machines inside are usable. There's an item fabricator, first aid kit, storage box, and fire extinguisher- barely enough for you to survive in an alien planet, right? Don't worry, you'll be able to build your own habitat later on in the game.


You can eat food via cooking or preserving them through salt. You can also eat them raw but I don't suggest that because aside from the fact it can increase your thirst (because they are fresh from the salty sea), raw food doesn't fill you up much. Fish is the primary source of food in the game but you can eat a few plants as well. You can get the fish by simply grabbing them the same way with fruits. If you're going to explore for a long time with your mobile vehicles like the seamoth, I suggest you carry your lunch with you via preserved fish because cooked fish gets spoiled fats.




Sixteen underwater biomes and two islands are available for exploration right now. Upon stepping out of the lifepod, you'll be able to swim in the safe shallows where you can pretty much handle the lack of oxygen and pressure, plus there's no radiation in the area. Upon exploration, you'll encounter deadly fishes, giant monsters, beautiful corals, and the other lifepods that crashed in the planet with you. Exploring is required in the game because you need to gather raw materials in order to survive and hopefully get out of the hell-hole you're in. These are the photos of a few biomes and islands that can be explored"

Underwater Ghost Tree

Grand Reef Biome

Inactive Lava Zone

Floating Island

Some of these biomes have very important functions, while a few at this moment doesn't really have any purpose aside from exploration, map markers, and places where you can get more raw materials. However, the game is still in it's early stages so we could only hope for more. As of now, I have explored all of these islands and biomes and it really makes me wonder what's down there beneath our beaches. Funny enough, I am scared of the sea ever since I could remember because it is something mankind isn't very sure about. I mean, only 1% of our waters have been discovered. Imagine the biomes and the creatures that can be found down there with the right technology.


You can build your own habitat underwater in Subnautica, which would actually make you think- do I really need to get out of this planet? I mean you can have everything you need there- like a television, a vending machine, your own plant box, a nuclear reactor, your own bedroom and office, and much more! Of course, in order to build more means you need to explore further in order for you to have the proper raw materials needed.

An interior garden with edible food

A simple bedroom

An aquarium with edible fish

A moonpool where you can park your vehicles

Today, I had a very terrifying dream. I really thought it was true and I still couldn't believe that I had an absolutely realistic dream. I dreamt that the Subnautica planet merged with our planet. Yes- all of the species there suddenly found their way in our planet. But guess what? These aliens are not under the sea rather floats in the air. And that's the worst part because in my dream us humans were forced to find shelter in a basement where these creatures are always trying to break in and eat us all. Glad I woke up when I defeated the boss monster. Janina was the heroine of her dreams!

WATCH ME PLAY SUBNAUTICA!!!



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