Summary
Subnauticais a survival exploration game with heavy horror undertones. Released in 2018 and developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment, players find themselves stranded on anoceanic alien planetfollowing a spaceship crash. To escape this strange planet, players must delve into its darkest depths to pursue knowledge and crafting materials. Be warned, giant monsters lurk in the gloom, and many of this planet’s inhabitants are deadly.
From its beautifully varied environments to theisolating terrorof its seabeds, there’s a lot to love aboutSubnautica. The following games have been selected because they share such characteristics, whether in their features or atmospheres, and the emotions they evoke in players.
The Long Darkis a realistic survival exploration game. In it, players find themselves trapped in the Canadian wilderness, where they must learn to live alongside Mother Nature or die trying.
Players who enjoyed journeying through the beautiful depths ofSubnauticawill find a lot to enjoy in this game.The Long Darkis teeming with breathtaking environments to explore, all with their own unique designs and chilling dangers. Death lurks around every corner, making exploration equal parts exhilarating and terrifying. LikeSubnautica,The Long Darkis a game of isolation where players are left to explore an unfamiliar world.
Needing no introduction for many,Minecraftis a blocky survival crafting game. With few concrete goals, players are given unprecedented freedom to find meaning and fun in this game, whether through building, mining, or fighting.
LikeSubnautica, Minecraft presents players with a vast array of biomes to explore, each with unique resources, structures, and creatures. With enormous underground caverns, sprawling jungles, and fiery hellscapes,Minecraftwill surely satisfy players who lovedSubnauticafor its environmental exploration.Minecraftalso provides players with significant gameplay flexibility. Players are free to do whatever they want, whether that be exploration, base building, or boss hunting.
Valheimis a survival exploration game inspired by Viking mythos. In it, players undertake the role of a dead warrior tasked with taming the fantastical realm of Valheim. Players must explore, craft, and build if they hope to be strong enough to slay the mythical beasts of this land.
Withdetailed and satisfying base building, players can build sprawling Viking strongholds and epic mead halls. Similar toSubnautica,Valheimalso presents players with an array of biomes, all with unique challenges to overcome and materials to be rewarded with. Players must master one biome and use the resources gained from it to increase their power before taking on the next boss.
Terrariais a survival crafting game in which players find themselves in a fantastical world filled with a variety of monsters and environments. Players must dig deep, collect resources, and grow stronger so they can slay increasingly more challenging bosses.
Terrariapresents a similar gameplay loop to that ofSubnautica, where playersexplore and conquer new environmentsand are rewarded with new and more powerful materials. In an instant, exploration of these environs can go from peaceful to a battle for life and death; doubly so if a boss spawns unexpectedly.
Fallout 4is a post-apocalyptic open-world RPG where players take on the role of a vault dweller, a person sheltered for hundreds of years from the nuclear fallout that has ravaged the world. Explore a wasteland whose people, politics, and wildlife have been mutated by hundreds of years of radiation exposure.
LikeSubnautica,Fallout 4allows players to explore an eerily familiar alien world through the eyes of a character just as poorly adjusted as themselves. The wastelands ofFallout 4are also filled with alien creatures with unique appearances, behaviors, and environments. Some of them are even human, or at least used to be.
Groundedis a survival crafting game where players play as a child who has been shrunk to the size of an ant as they struggle to live in a garden. Like all gardens, this one is teeming with insects, fromgiant spiders to blood-sucking mosquitoes. Players must explore, craft, and build to conquer the trials of this game.
Groundedshares a similar gameplay loop withSubnautica, where players explore new environs, collect materials, and become stronger, enabling them to take on more deadly opponents.Groundedis also a peaceful and wonder-filled game until it isn’t. The game can change instantly, from thrilling exploration toterror-filled panic, as players are the prey of many bugs.
Don’t Starveis a survivalcrafting gamewith distinct horror undertones and an unsettling atmosphere. Players must fight for survival in a semi-fantastical land devoid of human life. No matter how much players explore, collect resources, and build in this harsh world, death is inevitable.
Players who loveSubnauticawill thoroughly enjoy exploring the world ofDon’t Starve, a world that is equally wonderful and whimsical as it is terrifying and unsettling. InDon’t Starve, exploration can go from calm to chilling in seconds. Whether it be monsters, sanity, or the darkness of caverns, players caught unprepared will quickly succumb to the dangers of the wilderness.
The Forestis a realistic survival horror game. The sole survivors of a plane crash, players must explore, craft, and fight their way to survival on a remote island filled with cannibals and humanoid mutants, all the while searching for a means to escape.
As inSubnautics, The Forest’s story forces players to delve deep into claustrophobic depths. Death could be hiding around every twist of the cave, and the darkness hides some truly grotesque horrors, both living and dead. Exploration above ground sees players encounter beautiful and highly realistic environments. Peace and curiosity are, however, inevitably replaced by fear upon encountering cannibals or, even worse, mutants.
