6 found helpful
Dec 6, 2025Do not give money to the scummy company that bought the rights this otherwise amazing game.
Subnautica: Below Zero
Last updated: 2025-12-19
- Stunning visuals and immersive atmosphere
- Expands Subnautica universe effectively
- Improved crafting and building mechanics
- Weak and unsatisfying story progression
- Smaller, less immersive world design
- Shorter gameplay with low replay value
Emotions
Frustration21%Disappointment19%Satisfaction9%Excitement8%Enjoyment5%
Timed cohorts
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Refund churn
Risk snapshot
Fast read on churn risk and the loudest complaints.
86.5% PrecisionAug 12, 2021 → Dec 19, 2025
Total revenue at risk
$191,546
~$3,615 per month
Modeled from refund-intent reviews
Most dangerous issue
Voiced Protagonist Immersion Break
Design · 6 mentions · 12.2% of risk
Churn driver breakdown
Weighted by churn risk
Design
Technical
Business
Social
82.9%$158,761
12.2%$23,354
3.8%$7,186
1.2%$2,246
Issue map
Complaint treemap
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Issue treemap
Size = count · Color = sentiment
Design · 83.0% share
Technical · 11.3% share
Business · 3.8% share
Social · 1.9% share
Issue · Design
Voiced Protagonist Immersion Break
Voice signal (verbatim trimmed)
Instantly feels smaller, the voiced protagonist breaks the immersion of the original, diary entries are cringy, change of voice actor for the PDA which I found annoying more than soothing, bugs from the get go, improperly mapped controls.
Share of issues
11.3%
6 users in this cohort
Primary region
USA/UK
Detected from language cues
Anger level
Furious
Average sentiment intensity
Verbatim heatmap
Most dangerous reviews
Highest-upvoted negative posts threatening churn.
2 found helpful
Dec 17, 2025Not the worst game but the first one is so much better. Sequels should be a step forwards not back.
2 found helpful
Dec 18, 2025Missed the mark on what made the first one great. SBZ lacks that sense of lost exploration in a vast ocean through its narrative heavy NPCs and remarkably cramped underwater world. There is no discovering of anything, you are led from point A to point B. There is no sense of wonder, and frankly the NPCs are annoying.
1 found helpful
Dec 19, 2025Mediocre game, which when comparing to Subnautica, is a terrible game. Atmosphere completely off with all the stilted talking, fake noises of leviathans coming from no where in the beginning portion. Find an ion cube within 10 min, along with the blueprints for most of the buildings in the same place. Did I mention one of the first areas there is a cutscene where a character acts like a badass (TM) and talks like they are in a Marvel Movie? Uninstalled right there, and I was very open to cont…
1 found helpful
Nov 21, 2025like if subnautica was even worse. krafton ai first and greedy as fuck. L purchase