Unknown Worlds has shared a primary in-game take a look at Subnautica 2, as a part of a brand new developer video charting the extremely anticipated underwater survival sequel’s “highway to early entry”.
Subnautica 2 (really the third recreation within the acclaimed collection, following 2021’s standalone Subnautica growth Beneath Zero) was confirmed to be within the works all the best way again in 2022. A primary trailer lastly arrived final October, but it surely was purely a scene-setting cinematic – tipping a nod to the sequel’s new co-op mode – quite than providing any precise gameplay.
Skip forward seven months, and we have now been given a primary glimpse of how Subnautica 2 appears to be like in-game. Unknown Worlds shared the early footage as a part of its Highway to Early Entry developer video, by which Subnautica 2 design lead Anthony Gallegos supplied a small style of issues to return throughout the replace’s transient runtime.
Throughout his chatter, we bought a tease of some new environments – together with what seems to be the Subnautica 2 equal of the primary recreation’s Secure Shallows (the sequel is ready on a brand-new world) and a bioluminescent underground space – plus a number of new aquatic creatures. There is a second or two of an odd waddling factor with a fan-like tail, as an illustration, and a big fish headbutting rocks. We additionally bought a peek at co-operative swimming and base constructing.
It is not lots to go on, admittedly, and the studio nonetheless hasn’t introduced an early entry launch date. All we all know proper now’s it is resulting from launch “later” this 12 months for Xbox Sequence X/S and PC (by way of Steam and Epic), and it is coming to Sport Cross too.
Beforehand, Unknown Worlds stated it anticipated Subnautica 2 to launch into early entry with its co-op multiplayer mode, “a number of biomes, some narrative, and quite a lot of creatures and craftables”. There’s loads of time for issues to evolve from there, too, given the studio is anticipating early entry will final “about two to a few years.”
