Why Subnautica Is Already One Of The Best Survival Games Ever Made, Before It's Even Released

Concept art showing the in-development Sea Emperor, the largest known fauna currently in the game. After playing, at length, a few of the game's early access builds over the years, I can say that Unknown Worlds Entertainment's Subnautica probably is the best survival game ever made. It's certainly the best one I've ever played, and I've spent many hours in countless survival games mining and farming, building self-sustaining bases, and being incredibly frustrated with losing all of my hard-earned raw materials when I stupidly die somewhere far away from home base. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild recently released to glowing praise (and with the excitement of a new console, no less), Blizzard finally seems to be trying to fix Hearthstone, and a brand new installment in the Mass Effect franchise just dropped, but I'd trade it all for Subnautica to magically leave early access right now instead of in the fall. Unknown Worlds' first game, Natural Selection, released way back in 2002 -- a free Half-Life mod that was something the gaming world hadn't really seen before, a hybrid of a first-person shooter and real-time strategy game.