Why is there no tutorial?

[Kakegurui]

Literally have no clue what I am supposed to be doing or why. I feel like I just wasted money on a game that has no point!

EDIT: Many of you guys in the comments were right. I didn't give this game a full chance. Now that I have, I completely love it! Thanks to everyone who was nice about pointing that out.

[Shelt]

You just crashed on an alien planet.

The goal is to get rescued.

Here you go homie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1usdo1GQnk

[Kakegurui]

And that still doesn't explain what to do. I literally swim around forever doing NOTHING. Sure the creatures are pretty but that's all the game seems to offer.

[HeyThere]

You seem like a boring person.

[Lenny Rat]

Wow...less than an hour of game time and already flamed the game on a review and looking for a refund.

Impatience is not a virtue. Many players don’t want their hand held during a survival game.

That’s why they call it a survival game, by the way.

[Shelt]

It's a crafting and exploration game. You need to craft equipment, tools and vehicles to explore deeper water and find out what's going on. The video shows you how to get started, and explains a lot.

[Shelt]

Do you see the fabricator machine in the flotation pod you crashed in? It's on the wall. Access that and see what you need to build a scanner. Then start scanning things -- fish, coral, plants, rocks, etc.

[Salami Tsunami]

The lack of hand holding and pandering from a tutorial was one of my favorite parts of this game. At no point am I given objectives or told what to do. I actually have to figure out and plan what my next move should be, before I do it.

I'm sure this game would be much better with an objective waypoint system.

"go to the undersea reef and collect 10 lithium."

"Explore the alien ruins and access the central computer"

"Collect the Cyclops blueprint from the wreckage at the waypoint"

[Icarus]

People these days dont even know how to play games anymore XD crazy , if you REALLY cant figure a game by urself by simply exploring around and figuring stuff out use google or youtube and find all the answers you need , do you not have access to these ?

[Cougarific]

With all due respect to Shelt, you might want to check out the most Liked tutorial series on the Youtubz.

The thumbnails suck but the content is excellent.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1276183657

[Shelt]

Sorry I just grabbed the first one that I saw with "beginner tutorial" and posted it.

As to the game itself, I love it exactly because it really does feel like you're on your own after a bad accident. I knew immediately when I hit the water that I needed to examine everything, get food, get water, get tools and find out everything about where I just landed.

[bowel movement]

The game is meant to be played by just messing around and learning as you go. But if you don't really like not knowing what to do you can always watch walkthroughs or look up stuff on the wiki. I used the wiki pretty extensively but it does mess up your immersion. I think it's most fun to just learn things as they come

[Qwesar]

You should try again with more patience. Its one of the best games ever made. Immersion, exploration, environment, music and base building are all top notch. I own and played a lot of games and Subnautica has something magical about it that other games lack. Not many games have such a lush refreshing environment to explore at your own pace. The game has a cool main story but its totally optional. You can explore and build in a sandbox setting for as long as you want. I like to put off the story until I scan and made every blueprint.

[Fink]

You're locked in a room with no obvious way out. There are many objects in the room with you, do you think any of them or maybe a combination of some of them might help you survive while you try to find out why your locked in the room and if there is a way out. If you look a bit more can you see if the room is connected to any other rooms and if so maybe you should take some of that stuff essential for survival over time with you while you so you don't die and explore them (eating and drinking stuff for example amongst other things) and find clues to your dilemma. It's the same sort of thing as you think about your situation, explore the environment and pay attention to all the information that the game gives you, mainly from the PDA but also the environment, you might go on one of the best adventures you that you had in a long time. It's a great game especially on survival which is the best way to play it the other modes are just trainers for that mode I think. Have fun.

[Echelon86]

This has to be a troll... This is one of the BEST games of the genre. Maybe gaming is not for you. Stick to watching TV

[Meewec]

you dive in the water and it starts giving you clues as to what to do, then when you look at your fabricator it tells you what you need in order to make the things you know how to make.

exercise a little curiosity and ingenuity and you'll figure it out.