Platforms
- PCMay 14, 20218.3playscore8.225 Critics8.972.5K Players
- PlayStation 5May 14, 20218.4playscore8.021 Critics9.29.79K Players
- Xbox Series X|SMay 14, 20218.0playscore8.115 Critics8.32.44K Players
- PlayStation 4May 14, 20218.3playscore8.010 Critics9.2813 Players
- Xbox OneMay 14, 20218.0playscore8.010 Critics8.42.92K Players
- Nintendo SwitchMay 14, 2021NAplayscore7.811 CriticsNA0 Players
56 critic reviews · 10 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Overall, if you’re into exploration and survival games where you can spend hours and hours just collecting materials to create equipment and other items, then I recommend Subnautica Below Zero. It has just the right balance of everything you can hope for in a survival game. It is a great addition to the series and will hopefully pave the way for many games in the future.
Leif Rey Bornales · May 25, 2021 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Subnautica: Below Zero is a great follow-up to one of the best in the genre. It dishes out the survival aspects in more digestible chunks than some of the more extreme cases. This makes it much more approachable for players like me who are intimidated by the restrictions of the genre.
Ken McKown · May 25, 2021 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Subnautica: Below Zero is a worthy sequel, carrying the Subnautica name with pride. The addition of land may not improve the experience, but the quality of life improvements, new mysteries to uncover, and new gadgets to craft ensure this is a must-play for fans of the original.
Morgan Truder · May 19, 2021 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Subnautica: Below Zero presents the player not only with a harsh tundra to live in but the icy depths underneath it all. It’s tense, challenging, and always engaging, pushed on by a surprisingly in-depth narrative and characters that make eventually leaving behind all those magnificent alien animals all the more challenging when you eventually roll credits.
Brad Lang · May 19, 2021 Reviewed on PC, PS5, Series X|S, PS4, XB1, SwitchRead full review - In all honesty, yes, Subnautica: Below Zero is just more Subnautica, but don’t think of that as a bad thing. It might not have that many new features when compared to its predecessor, but considering how excellent the original game was, having yet another well-designed Subnautica, with a brand new map to explore and challenges to overcome, will always be worth celebrating. It suffers from some annoying performance issues, granted, but I am hopeful Unknown Worlds will come up with some patches in the near future. And that will ensure I’ll never stop expanding my nonsensically ginormous sealab.
Leo Faria · May 15, 2021 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Subnautica: Below Zero will grow on you, if you give it time. While the beginning hours aren’t nearly as rough as the last time around, a dedicated session or two of several hours is essentially mandatory before the adventure really starts to open up. After that, though, the sense of exploration is fantastic, the story is engaging, and the views can be spectacular.
Paulmichael Contreras · May 14, 2021 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Below Zero may not improve on Subnautica, but it's still an excellent game. There are incredible features I haven't even mentioned, like the sound design. If you really want to know what Below Zero is about, stop anywhere in the game's ocean and listen.
Rick Lane · May 13, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Subnautica: Below Zero once again delivers an experience with engaging exploration set in a mysterious, beautiful, and haunting underwater world.
Shubhankar Parijat · May 13, 2021 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Below Zero absolutely delivers in providing more of the excellent deep sea survival antics that we know and love from the original Subnautica. This is a super solid port too, a joy to sink time into in both docked and portable modes, with only a little stuttering here and there as you enter new biomes - and the series' ever-present scenery pop-in - to mention in terms of technical shortcomings. Unknown Worlds has served up another superb slice of survival shenanigans here, one that we highly recommend diving right into.
PJ O'Reilly · May 12, 2021 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Not everyone will warm up to Subnautica: Below Zero, but it’s an unquestionably rewarding release once you begin to get a foothold into the frigid foray. The game’s constantly tantalising you with new, exciting equipment, and its otherworldly ocean is an immersive environment in which to spend your time. A lack of landmarks mean that it can be a little too easy to get lost, and the story is light and largely uninteresting – but if the act of building an underwater base appeals to you, then this PS5 sequel unquestionably has strong foundations.
Sammy Barker · May 12, 2021 Reviewed on PS5Read full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Set one year after the original Subnautica, Below Zero challenges you to survive a disaster at an alien research station on Planet 4546B. Craft tools, scavenge for supplies, and unravel the next chapter in the Subnautica story.
Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment