Unknown Worlds has revealed that the following Subnautica recreation won’t be a live-service recreation, regardless of some earlier experiences claiming that it was.
“In reference to ‘Video games-as-a-Service,’ we merely plan to repeatedly replace the sport for a few years to return, similar to the earlier two Subnautica video games,” Unknown Worlds stated in a statement on its website. “Suppose our Early Entry replace mannequin, expanded. No season passes. No battle passes. No subscription.”
The studio clarified that gamers can benefit from the recreation as a single-player expertise. Whereas there may be co-op, it’s a completely non-obligatory strategy to play. It additionally looks like the sport won’t launch till 2025 on the earliest, as early entry shouldn’t be deliberate for 2024. Nonetheless, Unknown Worlds will present extra data later this yr.
The claims that the following Subnautica recreation can be a live-service title appears to have come from an older version of Krafton’s earnings paperwork. What appears to be a now amended version of the earnings doc uploaded to Krafton’s investor web site doesn’t embody the point out of games-as-a-service.
Again in 2022, Unknown Worlds introduced that it was engaged on a brand new Subnautica recreation.
Subnautica: Beneath Zero is the second and newest entry within the collection. Earlier than that, Subnautica launched in 2018. In GameSpot’s Subnautica evaluate, Brett Todd stated, “Subnautica’s story, scares, and fantastically rendered underwater setting makes it one of the vital fascinating survival video games round.”
