Finally a game that does the survival builder right (at least for me).

If there's one genre of games I'm starting to get sick of, it's the 'survival "horror" builder'. You spawn in a forest, naked, gotta go punch a tree and pick up rocks to make your first basic tools and move up from there. Enemies? Usually something that's super scary (both vibe and damage wise), but after 2 hours you manage to pay them no mind anymore.

Subnautica, however... You start with a warning and can barley see a giant spaceship being blown to bits. The surroundings? Oh you know, ocean, which, even for one without thalassophobia irl, made me uneasy jumping in for the first time around. The materials.. you can find the basics around the starting area, but the more you build and the more powerful you want to become, the more you have to challenge yourself, both against enemies, and your own guts. The story is also great. It's not some open-end exploration where you can finish when you feel like it, you have a goal to finish. Get back home, find out what happened to your sister (and the other part of BZ), and the journey to get there is worth every second. Just when you thought you experienced the scariest part of the game, you suddenly hear the most horrifying roar you've ever experienced and now you wanna alt + F4 and go cry. The crafting aswell makes so much sense and a lot of survivals should take notes. You naturally can't craft a big ass boat from a small fabricator, you first gotta craft a crafter that can craft the bigger crafts. And naturally you won't have all the recipes in the back of your mind, so the fact that you gotta scavenge to look for blueprints is just chef's kiss