I have a real fear of the ocean. The shallows of a beach is about all I can handle. Subnautica was designed to truly kill me.

It is the best survival/crafting game I've ever played. It gets everything just right. Lovely feeling of progression as you explore and get a bit better at living in this hellish wet place. A bit braver each time you head out with new equipment. Places that were once the scariest thing you'd ever seen now paddled through nonchalantly because you killed the big threat there by freezing it in place and dropping thirty farts on its head. Less "bending the land to your will" and more "becoming confident and tooled up enough to make it".

It's actually got a great story too, not the usual thing where you're stranded with some baddies and maybe you find a couple of diaries/audio logs. It ramps things up so well to such a satisfying payoff and feels like you discovered it all organically.

I cannot believe how much I enjoyed it. A game I rightfully should have played ten minutes of, then got too scared and deleted. I'm putting this on the All-Timers list, easily. Most survival games aren't fit to swim in Subnautica's wake.