As Subnautica: Below Zero continues to explore the hostile frontier of early access, in the latest update it’s gone supranautica with the series’s first vehicle made exclusively for travel above the waves. Because the survival sandbox can’t do anything nice without also trying to kill us, hoo boy there’s a new horror waiting for us on land alright. And back in the sea? More wonders and terrors. That’s Subnautica, baby. I’m trying to be a bit vague because I know some folks want to discover everything fresh (and heck, I do too) but this job requires informing people about happenings and… I’m trying, y’all.

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The first big update for Subnautica: Below Zero is out now. Unknown Worlds have added new areas, new sea-life, and a big modular submarine truck to build in their early access survival adventure. The Seatruck update introduces your un-glamorous flagship vessel of this new game, an upgradable hauler that starts out with just a front cab, but you can add extra holds with new functions. There’s two new biomes inhabited by new creatures, such as the massive, toothsome Squidshark. It may not be creatively named, but it can still kill you. See it and more in motion below.

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Subnautica is one of the great early access success stories. Not just because of its financial achievements – still dwarfed by some of the bigger names – but because of how it used the process to build and refine an exquisitely good game. Co-created with its players, but confident enough to maintain its creative direction, the result is one of the best games of the last few years. So perhaps it’s not ultimately that surprising that Unknown Worlds would repeat the practice for their follow-up, Subnautica: Below Zero.

Once again we’re under the sea, albeit in frostier conditions, with the first few hours and earliest biomes of a whole new adventure.

The following inevitably contains mild spoilers for the original Subnautica>

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Those who have plumbed the depths of Subnautica‘s oceans will have some chilly new waters to explore very soon. Standalone expansion Subnautica: Below Zero launches on Steam, Discord and the Epic Store on January 30th, albeit in early access. There’s frosty new biomes to survive, strange new alien flora and fauna to eat (or be eaten by) and more to do on the surface. There’s even going to be alien penguins (called Pengwings – yes, really), which would be adorable if a quarter of their body wasn’t an enormous, vertical spike-lined clam shell.

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