Recent reviews by snaX

7/10 *could have been 10/10 but for one issue that is a constant source of annoyance to me*

I love this game! It's highly addictive, adorably cute and a complete time drain (in the best way possible)!! :D The characters actually feel like they have totally unique personalities, the missions are different and fun to do, the graphics are GORGEOUS - and it has re-playability due to how you can manage your time differently each play-through and progress through the game at varying paces. I do feel that it is at times a little too fast-paced, managing the in-game time and the limited amount of daily stamina between all the tasks you must complete can be highly stressful; especially if, like me, you tend to make exactly the wrong choices at the wrong times! It never stops feeling like you're in a constant rush. There's never quite the amount of time in the day or spare stamina left to do everything you want to, so planning ahead is rather key (something I'm not particularly good at, at the best of times!)

I will, however, say there is ONE MAJOR gripe I have with this game that, if I'm being honest, brings me rather close to not wanting to play it at all:
THE SAVE SYSTEM!!!!
OMG the save system is the WORST type of game-save implementation you can have!! You can ONLY ever save your progress by sleeping in bed at your house, but that means you wake up the next morning (not like a few hours later the same day as in a game like Skyrim). If you happen to be halfway through a very productive day and suddenly need to stop playing for whatever reason you have two choices:
1) Go home and sleep to save before quitting - thus losing out on half a day's progress (and if you're not careful failing a commission due to running out of time for it, or missing a once-a-year event)
2) Quit the game without sleeping meaning you'll lose all the progress and work you've done for that entire half of in-game day

A GAME SUCH AS THIS, WHERE TIME IS SO DAMNED PRECIOUS AND BASICALLY TIME-MANAGEMENT IS THE MAIN GAME MECHANIC SHOULD HAVE A MANUAL SAVE OPTION!!!!!!!!! WHY CAN'T I SAVE EXACTLY AT THE POINT I NEED TO QUIT PLAYING AND RE-START IT FROM THERE WHEN I RETURN?!?!?!?!?!

NO game made now should have a save system like this. It's not like modern computer systems are lacking for hard drive space for game-saves. Restricting ability to save your game in this way makes NO sense, is HIGHLY infuriating and is completely pointless! It's not like this way of saving ADDS anything interesting to the game - this isn't a game that relies on you completing a level or "zone" in one go; it's meant to be a relaxing, casual sim-type game!

Hands-down the BEST game I have ever bought and played!! There is literally NOTHING I don't love about Subnautica!! From it's amazing visuals, terrifying biomes and creatures to it's simply awesome sound track and storyline. 10/10 Would Buy Again!!

Not worth your time. Only a single channel populated (general channel) out of about 10-15 and even in that only three matches active. The only people you come up against are ones who have already dumped actual cash into buying the best weapons, so you literally don't stand a chance against them. If you're looking for a good F2P (this is pay-to-win) shooter game then look elsewhere - this isn't it. Even CS:GO would be a better alternative, and that is flooded with cheaters right now.

This is a fun game to begin with, having to carefully plan out ahead of time where you're going to put your power and oxygen producing facilities versus your living facilities. And it's fun watching your colonists and bots running around getting things built and producing food and carefully managing what types of plants you grow, what tech you build and when etc.
The fun stops, however, when the game decides to randomly go into a death-spiral of which there is often little to no recovery options from. This can be something as simple as something you overlooked earlier on in the game - such as growing too much of one kind of plant, but other times it can be down to something completely out of your control that makes no logical sense - such as having enough oxygen generators for 68 colonists, having only 57 colonists in your entire base and yet having the game randomly out of nowhere claim you don't have enough oxygen for everyone and then having you sitting there watching them all asphyxiate INSIDE an oxygen-rich environment (even if you build another oxygen generator, this apparently doesn't fix the issue). The worst one is having your colonists starve to death with food inside the Food Makers - and it's usually the biologists who die first due to dumb AI that places TASKS importance above personal NEEDS - where they will literally work to death instead of eating, or stand around idle watching TV. If your biologists die first and you don't get any replacements from a Colonist ship you can guarantee a death-spiral from which your colony cannot recover from - because apparently you can't train basic workers or engineers to take over their role in an emergency.

Oh yes, and the death-spirals occur usually when you reach around a population of 50 and there's little to nothing you can do to put off or prevent these catastrophes from starting up - it's like the game is coded to start producing them from the get go.

9/10 - Would Recommend!
Really fun game, especially when played with friends. A little restrictive, in that it tries to push you towards building larger ships rather than really small ones [block size/object size restrictions] and it really could do with more than just 3 worlds to explore, but overall a very enjoyable experience. Tons of mods available on the Workshop - way more than you could ever hope to use at once - and the building system just works. Only major issue is the use of rotors and/or pistons in multiplayer, as they have a habit of totally bugging out and doing random and weird things - though this does up the amusement factor somewhat ;)

Too many Russians (you get lumped with them no matter what you do from the moment you first start playing), and ALL of them cheat. VAC is literally THE worst anti-cheat in the history of anti-cheats. It's totally and utterly USELESS and the game is LITERALLY flooded with cheaters.

Don't bother getting this game if you've never bought it before - you'll never rank up due to starter ranks being nothing but a cheat-fest - and Prime is a joke too it doesn't do crap and they have the balls to try and charge you for it!!

You are LITERALLY better off buying ANY other FPS game than this total piece of garbage. All Valve cares about now is their Pro scene (of which half the pro players are obvious cheaters too) and they don't give a monkeys about us regular players. This game needs to die already so Valve can just go back to being only a game client because they're abysmal at making and running games.