Subnautica: Below Zero
Developer/publisher Unknown Worlds Entertainment Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.” So said the doomed Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, who came to embody the fatal romanticism of exploration after his death in 1922. Subnautica: Below Zero would make that quote its motto, if it could. Like Subnautica before it, Below Zero delights in difficulties – little tasks and morsels of busywork portioned out and rationed just enough to keep a thread of intrigue alive at all times, even when you’re swallowing water and drowning for the fourth time in some godforsaken cave 400 metres from the ocean surface.
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