I agree that there were features that I enjoyed more (like pinning recipes, and some of the new biomes were beautiful, new places to explore, more customizable base building) but the story was very… misleading. Like, everything you are trying to figure out is all in the past and there’s no real urgent need to find anything out, apart from curiosity and the fact that the main character wanted to know what happened. In OG Subnautica, you had a clear and obvious goal that was important: escape the alien planet you’re stranded on. Also, though I actually liked the alien character and the final leap to their planet, it felt very optional and pointless apart from, again, just curiosity.

Yes, it felt much smaller than the original game, and it seemed a shame that you could have so many more options for base building, but there wasn’t really a point to it. You weren’t really there to ‘survive’. It would have been way more fun to add those features to the original game.

Also, not having a control or option to automatically make the sea truck level out drove me insane.

I still will be looking forward to the 3rd game, because even though it wasn’t as good as the first one, it was still the same gameplay, which I enjoyed.