The main objective of the player is to explore the ocean and survive its dangers, while at the same time completing tasks that function to advance the plot.
The player controls the lone survivor of a waylaid spacecraft called the Aurora, now stranded on a remote ocean planet named simply “4546B.” Subnautica is a survival, adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a first-person perspective. Unknown Worlds has developed a sequel to Subnautica, called Subnautica: Below Zero, which was released into early access on January 30, 2019. By January 2020, the title surpassed more than five million copies sold. The full release out of early access was in January 2018, exclusively for Microsoft Windows on Steam, and later on the Discord and Epic Games stores, with the versions for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on December 4, 2018. Subnautica was first released in early access for Microsoft Windows in December 2014, Mac OS X in June 2015, and for Xbox One in May 2016. The player must collect resources and face creatures to survive. It allows the player to freely explore the ocean on an alien planet, known as planet 4546B, after their spaceship crashes on the planet's surface. Subnautica is an open-world survival action-adventure video game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
