Too damn preachy for me. Who looked at Subnautica of all things - the love child of Ecco the Dolphin and Metroid Prime - and decided it needed a character-centric plot? What made Subnautica unique has been replaced with your generic feel-good movie plot. Robin spending every possible moment feeding the Architect empty motivational quotes about how brilliant it is to be human and alive and everything is wonderful wow, got real old real fast. The first Subnautica was a masterclass of environmental storytelling for its subtle elements of cosmic horror. Below Zero is a glorified Instagram post. It pains me to say this considering how much I fell in love with the original, but Below Zero feels like a total betrayal of what made me so enraptured.

At least the gameplay is mostly as solid as ever, though obviously scaled down from the full game.