Subnautica

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 290 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 217 out of 290
  2. Mixed: 42 out of 290
  3. Negative: 31 out of 290
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  1. StoicPrince
    Oct 17, 2020
    1
    DON’T BUY THIS GAME ON PS4. I absolutely echo what others have said. I love this game but the bugs are game breaking on PS4. I tried two playthroughs and in both I encountered a save bug that wouldn’t let me save my game. I lost over 50 hours of game time. I’d give this game another shot if they fixed the bugs but I hear the developers have already moved on to other games. Bottom line:DON’T BUY THIS GAME ON PS4. I absolutely echo what others have said. I love this game but the bugs are game breaking on PS4. I tried two playthroughs and in both I encountered a save bug that wouldn’t let me save my game. I lost over 50 hours of game time. I’d give this game another shot if they fixed the bugs but I hear the developers have already moved on to other games. Bottom line: don’t buy this game on PS4, buy it on PC.… Expand
  2. AlmostHuman4352
    Sep 11, 2020
    0
    A fantastic game that has sadly been left unfinished. The game ended for me when one of the late-game leviathans grabbed my exosuit and threw me clear through a non-existent wall texture and off the map, leading to the loss of many hours of progress. Awful controls and poor optimisation further lead me to believe that the developers never had any intention of turning the PS4 version into aA fantastic game that has sadly been left unfinished. The game ended for me when one of the late-game leviathans grabbed my exosuit and threw me clear through a non-existent wall texture and off the map, leading to the loss of many hours of progress. Awful controls and poor optimisation further lead me to believe that the developers never had any intention of turning the PS4 version into a finished product. Avoid.… Expand
  3. SirCheesy
    Dec 9, 2018
    2
    Fantastic game, I really love it. That being said, the game is a broken mess on PS4. Crashing every couple hours I can handle, but when I save multiple times in order to prevent losing data, it either doesn't save, or loses saves. I had a file I literally saved, a couple minutes later crashed. When I reloaded, it was an hour earlier and all of my exploration in the lost river was gone.Fantastic game, I really love it. That being said, the game is a broken mess on PS4. Crashing every couple hours I can handle, but when I save multiple times in order to prevent losing data, it either doesn't save, or loses saves. I had a file I literally saved, a couple minutes later crashed. When I reloaded, it was an hour earlier and all of my exploration in the lost river was gone. Tons of nickle ore gone. I love the game, but I'm done playing until this kind of stuff is fixed.… Expand
  4. Welshie95
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    Riddled with bugs. Not worth playing if your file will just get corrupted after 20 hours.
  5. Grampus
    Jan 11, 2019
    0
    I challenge the gaming community to find a game that runs this poorly on any console. One has to seriously question the morality of the people making money off of this port. Did anyone think to see if the game worked before charging people their hard earned money? Is it really forgivable to put us through this? I want people to know that i spent over 100 hours with this game before writingI challenge the gaming community to find a game that runs this poorly on any console. One has to seriously question the morality of the people making money off of this port. Did anyone think to see if the game worked before charging people their hard earned money? Is it really forgivable to put us through this? I want people to know that i spent over 100 hours with this game before writing this review and tried to reinstall multiple times etc. I platinumed this POS and believe I could have done so in less than 10 hours without performance issues. The game all out crashed 30-40 times. Saves failed to actually save my progress around 5 times and lost me about 50 hours of my life. Objects often don’t render until you are inside them and you will get stuck countless (100s) times because of this. The game half freezes every time you come to the surface and will generally do this regardless of where u are or what u are doing about every 5 seconds. The performance is directly linked to the size of your save file so it takes time for all of this to come to fruition. Like 15 minutes at least before it all falls to bloody hell. Objects get stuck inside your base and sub, sometimes breaking the game. Pet “fish” dissappear every time you leave the base regardless of what you do to protect them. The frame rate is legit 3 FPS for the latter half of the game. I’m infuriated and truly can’t believe you got away with this. How in the actual **** does this game get approved for release. Sure it’s one of the best game ideas ever conceived if it runs well but it hardly runs at all. This game struggles to perform on
    pc. It’s a complete joke on PS4. Sooooo many more bugs I cant fit in this space that are practically game breaking in their own right. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!    … Expand
  6. Psheshlov
    Nov 16, 2020
    4
    20 fps PSPro + tons of bugs. I loved this game on PC. But PS experience is awful.
  7. Swoosh
    Dec 13, 2018
    4
    I really wanted to like this game, I’m a HUGE fan of the concept and content. This in theory was a beautifully designed survival game or if you play in creative mode a beautiful exploration game. Except that it becomes unplayable after about an hour or two, it’ll crash at random despite it seemingly working fine, or it’ll stop rendering the sea floor at all, you’ll suddenly lose a bunch ofI really wanted to like this game, I’m a HUGE fan of the concept and content. This in theory was a beautifully designed survival game or if you play in creative mode a beautiful exploration game. Except that it becomes unplayable after about an hour or two, it’ll crash at random despite it seemingly working fine, or it’ll stop rendering the sea floor at all, you’ll suddenly lose a bunch of resources. If you managed to save before it crashes there isn’t a guarantee it actually saved, it deletes save files left and right, if the developers manage to release a decent patch I would love to rate this much higher but at its current state unfortunately I can only give it a 4 at most. It feels like I’m playing a game that’s still in its beta stage and not a game that’s been out for several years (I am aware that it’s a new release to ps4 but it’s been out on pc for a while).… Expand
  8. Cskeet
    Jan 2, 2019
    1
    Potential to be an amazing game. wonderful graphics, great premise and setting with in depth exploration and worldbuilding. however this is undercut by constant graphical errors and failure to load textures making exploring in the game a nightmare as your never sure if a wall or leviathan will spawn around you. the save system is terrible as there is no autosave feature and the game willPotential to be an amazing game. wonderful graphics, great premise and setting with in depth exploration and worldbuilding. however this is undercut by constant graphical errors and failure to load textures making exploring in the game a nightmare as your never sure if a wall or leviathan will spawn around you. the save system is terrible as there is no autosave feature and the game will occasionally delete your save file. this is further undercut by the game consistently crashing every few hours to minutes. this game has so much potential but is ultimately a buggy unplayable mess.… Expand
  9. OverlordEntropy
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    The has slow rendering and hit detection issues where you can fall out of the world before the environment populates. I sucked it up and kept playing all the to the end where you get to the last location and fell right through the floor. It's shameful how bad this was translated to console. It was an obvius cash grab.
  10. ClutterBrain
    Jan 28, 2020
    0
    Warning, this game has been out for well over a year and, instead of fixing the game breaking bugs that the game has had since launch, the developer decided to move on to a new game.
  11. Bulbotrax
    Dec 9, 2020
    0
    i dont know the people who made this ps4 version... but i do know they are a bunch of incompetent idiots. This version of the game have so many problems...the game crashed so many times...the frame rate is poor... the elements just pop out of nowhere... and after a tons of hours, my save has been corrupted... i was nearly the end. I will never trust this company ever., they just are thieves.
  12. ThoughtfulScore
    Dec 4, 2020
    2
    This game has, by far, the worst performance of any game I've played on PS4. It's an exhilarating, engaging, terrifying and immensely satisfying game. However, even if your save doesn't get corrupted or you don't fall through the seafloor into an unfixable glitch, the framerate on PS4 is such a significant barrier to enjoyment that I do not recommend you play it on this platform.

    The    This game has, by far, the worst performance of any game I've played on PS4. It's an exhilarating, engaging, terrifying and immensely satisfying game. However, even if your save doesn't get corrupted or you don't fall through the seafloor into an unfixable glitch, the framerate on PS4 is such a significant barrier to enjoyment that I do not recommend you play it on this platform.

    The performance of the game decreases as you make it further into the story, which makes it all the more frustrating. I was invested, because it's awesome, but I was so damn frustrated by the near-single-digit frame rates that can persist for minutes at a time that I had to give up and just watch a YouTube video of the end of the story to get closure on what should have been a totally awesome experience. 10/10 for game design but 2/10 for implementation and optimization on PS4.    … Expand
  13. Ricord1
    Mar 20, 2020
    0
    Anyone that praises this rediculous nonsense glitch of a "game" as worth playing is a bot. It's hands down worse than the cheesiest mobile game ever made. The earliest Atari games were like epic rpg's in comparison. Peace.
  14. Luxox412
    Nov 28, 2020
    1
    Although the game starts well, despite having low frame rates per second and a somewhat slow load of objects on the screen at a distance, the game begins to show crashes after a couple of hours, blacking out when starting the game sometimes, so you have to be closing the game and opening it again, and as if that were not enough, after saving errors begin to appear which become tedious andAlthough the game starts well, despite having low frame rates per second and a somewhat slow load of objects on the screen at a distance, the game begins to show crashes after a couple of hours, blacking out when starting the game sometimes, so you have to be closing the game and opening it again, and as if that were not enough, after saving errors begin to appear which become tedious and do not allow you to save the game. Ruining the gameplay completely. Disgusting for a fourth generation game.… Expand
  15. Sheppso
    Mar 29, 2021
    4
    Saved my game after playing for about 5-6 hours, got off. Next day loaded it up and found myself with half my base missing, looked it up and this game has a bunch of saving issues. Waste of time.
  16. Sanosen
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    AVOID PS4 VERSION ITS UNPLAYABLE. Of the million bugs, the worst is losing your entire save file, which is always a matter of "when" and not "if". PSN doesnt give a refund while i simply cannot finish this game because of the thousands of different save bugs.
  17. PDitta
    Dec 2, 2020
    0
    This would be a great game, except, two YEARS after release, it still has game breaking bugs. 60 hours into the game and, without warning, all my bases and equipment disappeared, never to return. Basically that’s a start again moment. But since it will happen again, there’s nothing to be done. This is a commonly found error and the developers have done nothing with it. Avoid at all costs.
  18. Carlhal
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    Game fundamentally broken. Amazing game rendered unplayable. For me atleast, 30+hrs had lots of trouble saving. Then upon reloading lost everything my base and vehicles gone. So many hours put into a game I enjoyed incredably. Wont start another game. I dont understand how selling a game in this state has no legal boundaries
  19. gd01skorpius
    Jun 2, 2021
    4
    TL;DR: This game IS worth getting but if you can, get it on PC. It's a shame the PS4 version is so much worse. I've left a glowing review for the PC version but I simply cannot recommend paying more than a very small amount of money on the PS4 version (it was free when I got it, and it showed enough promise to make me want to pay for the PC version). The issues: The game takes far to longTL;DR: This game IS worth getting but if you can, get it on PC. It's a shame the PS4 version is so much worse. I've left a glowing review for the PC version but I simply cannot recommend paying more than a very small amount of money on the PS4 version (it was free when I got it, and it showed enough promise to make me want to pay for the PC version). The issues: The game takes far to long to load and, worse, way way way too long to save. The saving issue is painful because world content will not stream in (i.e.: appear) until saving is complete. I have waiting between 1 to 2 minutes to save my progress, and you need to save because the game blue screens SO MUCH. This IS a GREAT game, which only makes it all the more frustrating because of these highly intrusive issues. Should you get this game on PS4? If you can get it for free or only a few bucks then definitely try it out, but if you have the choice, get it on PC where none of these issue exist.… Expand
  20. Salador2606
    Nov 1, 2021
    1
    С огромным удовольствием прошли вместе с ребёнком эту игру на ПК. Но когда решили перепройти её на консоли, то столкнулись с огромным колличеством багов. Это просто кошмар. Не завидую я тем, кто заплатил за это деньги.

    With great pleasure we went through this game on PC together with the child (they gave a score of 10). But when we decided to re-run it on the console, we encountered a    С огромным удовольствием прошли вместе с ребёнком эту игру на ПК. Но когда решили перепройти её на консоли, то столкнулись с огромным колличеством багов. Это просто кошмар. Не завидую я тем, кто заплатил за это деньги.

    With great pleasure we went through this game on PC together with the child (they gave a score of 10). But when we decided to re-run it on the console, we encountered a huge number of bugs. This is just a nightmare. I do not envy those who paid money for this.    … Expand
  21. Stratslinger315
    Jun 25, 2021
    0
    Boring, tedious and glitchy. Suck-Nautica is more like it. Enjoy using a knife and goofy cannon as there are no weapons in the game. Enjoy your submarine if you can due to all the maintenance with batteries and bs like fires. It‘s a game that should be or could be really fun but just isn’t at all.

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#57 Best PS4 Game of 2018
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#38 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2018

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. CD-Action
    Mar 25, 2019
    80
    The PS4 edition of the brilliant survival game has some performance problems (framerate dropping, environment popping up really badly if you travel fast) and navigating in three dimensions is much less intuitive with a controller than with a mouse, which did cost me my life sometimes. These flaws do not disqualify the console port though, so if you can’t enjoy Subnautica on PC, consider giving it a shot on PS4, as there are very few such games nowadays. [02/2019, p.35]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jan 27, 2019
    80
    Few games are this consistently surprising, let alone this well designed. [Issue#158, p.88]
  3. GameCritics
    Jan 15, 2019
    65
    I have rarely seen a game go from being absolutely sublime to absolutely awful, but Subnautica manages to pull it off. The first 25-30 hours are a superb sci-fi survival experience that I would happily recommend to anyone, and I’ll cherish that time under the waves for years to come. But the endgame? It really does ruin a good thing. If the first chunk of the adventure were scored on its own, it would rate much higher. But as a complete experience? The issues are too large to ignore.
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