Subnautica 2018

Is it still worth playing?

Unknown Worlds Entertainment's open world underwater survival game for Windows, in early access from 2014 and fully released in 2018, played from a first person view. After the starship Aurora crashes on the ocean planet 4546B, you gather resources and blueprints, craft tools and build bases and submersibles, with Survival, Freedom, Hardcore and Creative modes. There is no traditional mission structure. A wall fabricator builds items from raw materials, scanning wreckage unlocks blueprints, and sea bases are safe zones with rooms of different functions. Radio distress calls move the story along at your own pace. As you go deeper the sea grows more dangerous, and upgrades such as a submarine give you a reason to keep exploring, which still drives the descent today.