As a huge fan of Subnautica 1, 2 is a wait for a huge sale for me. The development of this game has been filled with so much drama it’s hard to believe it’ll capture a fraction of the soul that made 1 so good. We’ve seen shit like this over and over again and the games rarely come out good.
With all the drama and red tape surrounding the development of this game.
I really hope it’s as good as the original, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
I’ll be waiting for reviews before I buy.
Honestly even the absolute best case for this game is still “the more you care about it, the better it is for you to wait until it’s out of Early Access”. Early access for an “exploration first” game means your exploration is going to find a bunch of “come back later” walls, placeholders, and bugs. That’s the point of Early Access after all. I’d have enjoyed Subnautica a lot less if I’d played it during Early Access and was waiting on a patch to let me explore the Aurora.
I’ll waiting a lot to what’s actually in the EA and what’s their roadmap.
Learnt the hard lesson with Kerbal 2.
I would try this tittle depending on the price and my cash this day.
The first one is definitely worth it. I’d wait to see how 2 turns out because there’s already a bunch of red flags.
How is this Krafton free? Did they drop the publisher?
It is not “Krafton free”. Unknown Worlds is completely owned by Krafton, Krafton isn’t just “the publisher”. There was a complicated lawsuit that led to internal reorganization, and some napkin math that suggests there’s some number of lifetime sales that, if they don’t ever sell more than that number or significantly less than that number, the project will lose Krafton money because they’d be legally required to pay out the “bonus” that the drama was about in the first place (but not make enough profit to actually afford paying that bonus without dipping into profit from other games). But it’s still a Krafton game developed by Krafton employees.
