Subnautica was for me a huge let down, I bought this game based on lots of praise about it being one of the best exploration games with good story and mystery to uncover.
After putting around 8 hours in the game i just quit and deleted it, the game is incredibly boring to me. To start, first the grind aspect of the game sucked, it makes the game more survival than true exploration game, looking at good exploration game look no further than Outer Wilds.
Grind hinders the experience because its making me go into the water and back to my ship too often which kills the pacing and makes me lose interest due to how boring the gameplay loop plays, after a while i get better stuff because of the grind and now finally i can explore deeper but all i have found was darker areas with pretty colors, nothing really rewarding, no wow moments like Outer Wilds. Its really a let down.
After some hours i found some wrecked ships and weird places but still didnt capture my interest because it was so dull and boring.
The game added this grind to make the playtime longer, i cant think of a good reason why it should add this food water, crafting bullshit where instead you could find them items and continue to explore and solve puzzles to reveal mysteries and the story about what happened, but no it didnt.
And the scare factor is just not there, some people said its scary, i dont find it scary.
Very overhyped game, even the story and the world, its not that good, its barely on the decent side at best, but for me personally it was terrible, an awful game, i ofcourse didnt finish it because i lost interest.