I love how instead of making an invisible wall at the edge of the map the devs made an empty black abyss. You can swim out into the literal endless empty void but all you'll find is an infinite number giant sentient condoms filled with glow stick juice.

One thing amazing about subnautica is that you start off dumb and afraid, by the end you know just about everything about the planet and end up somehow sad to leave

For the people new to Zero Punctuation the translation is: This game is amazing and highly recommended

Subnautica is the kind of game when you start off with a knife, couple of seaweed, and corals And ended up building a massive auto-piloted intergalactic space rocket

The devs should be proud. Yahtzee gave the game a half-hearted approval, which is more than enough proof that this game is fucking fantastic.

I know it was a throwaway joke, but I'd play the shit out of a survival game set in a food world.

Nonexistium is actually in the glove box of the escape pod under your Mars bar, next to the ironicum

Forgot to mention: And somehow it breaks a long established taboo in gaming where underwater is a shitty thing to play*

kinda surprised he didnt talk about how scary the game is, but maybe hes immune to fear of sea satans with a taste for human flesh...

Honestly my favorite part of the whole game is using the prawnsuit grapple hook to grapple onto sea monsters to go at them with the drill. Ended up renaming the suit The Tally Ho and ravaging all the beasts in the land with it. Hopefully psychic sea mommy didn't see any of that

Me: Another survival/crafting game... pfft, no thanks. Subnautica: Ah. But I have a decent plot and an ending you strive towards achieving. Me: ...I'm listening.

Coming in 3 years later to say I appreciate the "blake edwards" reference. I grew up watching older movies as a kid, and Operation Petticoat was great to me as a kid.

Wait...did Yahtzee just give...another positive review? This usually happens maybe 3 times a year.

*WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA!?*

Subnautica is now on the elite list of games that have gotten Yahtzee's seal of approval

Hey Yahtz, are you still playing that game ?? WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA ?? That seriously cracked me up.

wait a moment, the game's good? how come? i thought we didn't do those anymore

Exploding bush monsters of the sea. Does every survival game have to have kamikaze shrubberies?

What is a wave without the ocean? A beginning without an end? They are different, but they go together. Now you go among the stars, and I fall among the sand. We are different But we go...together.

Well, glad to hear you had a good time Yahtzee. 👍

The story was great. That ending actually managed to instill some emotion from me.

He did forget to mention the ass-clenching terror you experience in the early game when you're desperately hoping that enormous sea monster that just emerged from the gloom doesn't notice you trying to- OH SHIT IT SAW ME

" Who dares trespass up Fort Ocelot Alpha!" This is up there with some of the classic Yatzee lines.

For him I hope he disabled the big fucking gun when he launched his rocket. Another fun thing about this game is that if you launch the rocket and get off the planet you can leave behind a time capsule with some stuff in it. It'll get uploaded to a website where people can vote to have it in the game or not, then other players can find your time capsule. You can also leave a note with it.

I'm glad he liked it enough to complete it! I've been playing it since it's early access debut but still haven't beaten it. I get distracted so easily... I would love to see a picture of fortress ocelot alpha.

Subnautica is a beautiful gem of a game. After wasting almost 30 years of my life on gaming and not much else (sad, i know) there isn't much that can still evoke something like joy or excitement in me when it comes to gaming. Subnautica actually made me feel like a little kid playing something fresh and new again. I spent hours drawing my own map with pen and paper, mapping points onto a coordiante system, figuring out what the hell i'm supposed to do (never used the wiki once) and i have to admit that it was the most fun 50h i've had in a long time. Money incredibly well spent. Would by it a second time if it came with a fresh map. Love almost everything about that game. Can't praise it enough.

The toy Space Shuttle - hilarious. The fact that it's a toy of Space Shuttle Atlantis? *_PERFECT_*

Based on the fact its only $25 on Steam and Yahtzee liked it I bought and started playing last night around 7pm and it had that Minecraft time passing effect where suddenly it was 3am and I was regretting the fact I had to go to work in the morning. It reminds me a bit of Rust, but better because you can enjoy a singleplayer experience.

Operation Petticoat! I GET THAT. They even made a TV series out of it in the 70s, I think.

the pink submarine is reference to the film Operation Petticoat directed by blake edwards and starring cary grant who captains an pink submarine

The “WHO DARES TRESPASS!” part gets me every time

"WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA?!" My new favorite quote from anything ever.

1:57 I'm just now realizing that this is the start of Yahtzee's dolphin fetish subplot.

For some reason Im picturing a survival horror game taking place in the arctic shortly after the events of John Carpenter's "The Thing". Your character is sent to check out some staticy distress calls from the base where everything went down, and almost there a blizzard hits. When you show up the entire place is on fire and blood spattered. You dont actually get to see the thing itself for a while, building up to it in a similar method to alien isolation. In the midst of initially exploring the base and surveying the damage, trying to figure out what happened there, you find the vehicle you went there in destroyed, and if you had initially traveled there with anybody theyre missing. As the game progresses and you not only have to fidn means of putting out fires and getting throughout the entire arctic research station trying to understand what happened you also need to loot what you can and craft survival gear as most of the place is without power and it turns out a hostile nearly lifeless wilderness is creepy enough when you arent in a horrible nightmarish slaughter scene. Eventually things start showing up, one or more members of your party become infected by the thing, and while as in the films fire is an effective means to actually put it down (chopping it up or shooting it usually just causes it to split into equally horrifying pieces that can scamper off and show up later, the whole "decisions having consequences" gameplay but in more of a sense of survival and whether or jot your making problems worse rather than just a moral choice system, though if there were to be an actual moral choice system Id have it so its not so much affecting your characters mentality as those of whatever party members are with you as the tension mounts in a life or death battle against a creature all of you are threatened by yet incapable of dully understanding so the riskier moves to secure survival which may put people at risk or kill them under suspicion of them being infected may make other party members rebel against you). Eventually you find everything out and have to craft as a final game option either a means of sending out a distress call seeking escape or crafting a means of putting the creature down for the count for good, more setting a trap bound to kill you both than actual weapons as for the most part it wont be combat focused but rather trying to avoid combat with a thing you have little to no means of effectively putting down without sacrificing the fuel you need for warmth in order to survive the harsh blizzards, or try to just flee as far away as possible marooning it there but risking it escaping too, possibly bringing some form of proof back to try and talk the government into nuking the place to kingdom come. Idk I see a lot of ways it could all work together. What do you think?

I think the most terrifying experience in subnautica is when you are exploring and the PDA says "Detecting multiple leviathan class creatures in the area. Are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?"

I lost it at “Ocelot Alpha” i can picture a cat like that going for a swim.

I've heard a lot of complaints about people trying to find where the sulfur is. I guess it was because I was watching other people's "let's plays" that I noticed the first time you encounter those exploding fish your little AI partner tells you that there is sulfur nearby and then the fish explodes by you. Perhaps it putting another little marker like it tells you the first time you crack open a Sandstone deposit would have been better instead of your PDA telling you one time.

2:14 "Tea, Earl Gray, hot" THAT'S AN SCP, I SWEAR

I know I'm repeating my last comment but I feel it's more apropos here. Yahtzee and Jotaro should hang out. They could talk for hours about dolphins.

"I told myself I wasn't gonna stick around long enough to want to explore the base building element" When someone like Yahtzee says this and then goes on with a joke about how he got lost in the base building element, then you KNOW you've made a good game. Good design is when a game essentially coerces you into exploring it's environments and mechanics through natural, unspoken guiding. A well paced and well thought out game can easily do with without forcing you to do shit or even WANT what the game is offering to begin with It's like a really good tutor, except the subject being studied is "having fun"

If you scan the kamikaze fish, the game will tell you that they nest in and feed on sulfur.

Yahtzee should design a survival/crafting system... tears of sparrows... mushrooms and tin foil... That would be a trip

Love how he has the same feeling most of us have about warpers, got teleported from my seamoth while exploring the grand reef and ended up in the void, oh hey Ghost leviath...! after that i went on a warper murdering spree with a ton of gas torpedoes.

Been playing since alpha. My only issue is my ravenous appetite for exploration isn’t sated after a while. When you’ve done it once you’ve done it all. Base building can only satisfy me so much, I want to keep exploring. To keep documenting flora and fauna, finding new biomes and secret little things. If subnautica had that, as well as some kind of interesting and satisfying endgame gameplay, then it’d be 10/10 perfect.

That fortress bit killed me!

My subnautica wasn't all that crazy unless you count learning how to quantum drift through the planet with a seaglide, turning a floater into a prisoner of war aboard my submarine, a 10 minute battle with a crabsquid, and finding 3 of the 4 (or 5) super rare fish eggs as crazy.

This man is so British that he can turn the entire ocean of subnautica into tea

Me: **enjoying subnautica** The leviathan class life forms Id guessed might be in the _extremely_ late game because of the full planet scan on their way to show up when I don’t even have a sub: I guess you wonder where I’ve been

I love Subnautica, it's one of the precious few survival games I can't get enough of (when I'm not scared shitless of it). And now, I can say to any nonbelievers: "it's so good, even Yahtzee couldn't dislike it, as hard as he tried!"😁

"WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA?!!!" What do you know, a game that Yahtzee didn't roast completely to the ground.

I always enjoy a few hours of Subnautica. Start a new file, get to where I make a base in the Active Lava Zone, and just set up an observation room to watch a dragon blasting random fish as I chomp down marblemelons and enjoy some coffee. So long as he doesn't spot my base, it's safe enough with a dozen thermal reactors to keep me nice and cozy at night.

It stands to mention they added very good voice-acted recordings for all these lengthy documents that you can leave playing after closing the menu.

...wait, you liked a game? CALL THE PRESSES! :P

Heh, is it weird that when you said Blake Edwards and "Pink" my first thought was "Hey. Pink Panther reference!". I completely forgot he was also responsible for Operation Petticoat.

"I was going to paint it pink and call it the 'Blake Edwards's bit I didn't think anyone would get that." Lmfao

I was really worried Yahtzee was going to rain one of my favourite games but wow, he nailed it.

I absolutely love the way they did the large subs hud as making it real added so much immersion and made it feel like you were the person piloting a sub, not the sub itself.

Subnautica is one of those rare examples of games that spend years and years in development and just get better with time

4 years later, and I keep coming back to this absolute masterpiece every time I get a desire to play Subnautica.

This video is the first that I've watched of this channel and me being someone that is playing subnautica at the moment found this hilarious mixed with the fact that this accent talking about wanting to shove a warpers balls into a panini maker + how he mentions every time that you stop playing you eventually get pulled back in only to be punished by getting the shit scared out of you because the grand reef being where of course you find literally every other module and Orange tablets mixed with the "ENDING" of the intergalactic pizza delivery truck that crashed and made many bad decisions on the way all because rich mc money was salty because the secret alien race didn't give then a tip, only to find out that they had planned ahead and built a massive T shirt cannon and shot them down. You have earned a subscriber

Wow, I'm impressed he was able to survive long enough to fight Marcus.

I feel a surge of warmth in my heart whenever I watch a ZP review this positive.

the cave sulphur problem appears to be a rather common one although it has improved from the beta during which it was called crash fish powder, and who the hell knows what a crash fish is, at least cave sulphur implies it involves explosions in a cave

I never noticed until this review, but Yahtzee does seem to be fixated on the tears of dying sparrows

I swear to god you are the funniest game critic on youtube!

I never expected subnautica to make me sad like this was one of most terrifying experiences I've had, I can't wait to get off the planet and beat the game but when I entered the rocket I kinda just became overwhelmed with sadness and just started reading up. I could look in one direction and know what biome I'm looking at, the horrifying encounters I've had there and everything and to leave it all behind just felt so... Unreal Subnautica will always stay one of my favourite survival games and hell while we're at it I might us we'll put it as one of my favourite horror games

This is one of the most positive videos I've heard from this series in a long time, even more than Dark Souls/Bloodborne, which is saying a lot. Subnautica has rapidly become one of my favorite games, and I'm glad to see that others are also enjoying the experience.

My favorite moment was when I was exploring the Grand Reef, I think it was, and I hear this noise and turn around and all of a sudden this giant, full grown ghost leviathan is coming straight at me, and I had to swim for my life to get away. It was so cool.

"Fortress Ocelot Alpha" xD

0:23 I had no idea Yahtzee was that fluent in gunspeak

omg I am crying!! This was amazing to watch thank you so much!! I needed that laugh

My first encounter with the Reaper, I was merrily checking out the sea floor around the Aurora, (which by the way, I'd fully explored without ever having seen a Reaper - something which many have told me is miraculous) when I saw its shadow come over the top of me from behind. It didn't even roar, it just went past me. I froze in my seat, just seeing this horrific silhouette. It's only when I swam away as fast as I could back to my Seamoth did it roar and make chase. I had to stop playing that game for a couple days before I got the courage to play it again!

4:13 made me chuckle

Holy cow he made a reference to Operation Petticoat, who got that one?

Definitely going on a binge watch with these videos, just wholesome fun

When I finally got around to playing Subnautica, I named my seabase Fortress Ocelot Alpha in Yahtzee's honor since I probably never would've heard of this wonderful game if not for Yahtzee, and I also probably wouldn't have found the cave sulfur if not for Yahtzee's quip about those goddamned Crashfish.

I fucking love this game

Butt. Did you find a cuddlefish?

Funniest, excellent and most accurate review of Subnautica I have seen. And damn relatable

"Like a kitten crawling down a hose pipe" perfect analogy! Gotta love this guy's humor.

I had a feeling that Yahtzee would like Subnautica.

1:34 thats actually the map for subnautica being nailed to the floor there

Kudos to you, that was awesome! Definitely going to share this one!

Subnautica is definitely my favourite of the crafting survival type games. The thing I find with most crafting survival games is I just run out of things to do and get bored eventually, but with Subnautica I actually had goals to work toward. And on top of that, I could spend a bunch of time doing my own thing till I got bored of that and then move on with the story until I got tired of that and went back to my own thing. By the end my submarine was fully upgraded and I'd basically built a home inside of it, so everywhere I went I took my home (and all my things) with me on my adventure. Which was nice as it meant no going back to base to get random junk (just have to recharge the batteries once in awhile but it's easy enough to set up a small outpost for that when you carry 100% of your materials with you everywhere you go :p). I did build a large base though but it spent most of its time fairly abandoned. But I'm glad the game actually had an end and a story. The thing about other crafting survival games is they're all sandbox games and as such I just get bored and slowly move on, which I feel really makes the experience less than it could be if it had an actual story and ending. I do like the odd survival crafting sandbox game but only if I can play it with friends, and even then we still tend to get bored and move on from it (but usually come back after awhile). But single player I just find it dull most often.

OMG, I love how Yahtzee used the Beatle's cartoon Yellow Submarine for his sub and then named it the "Yoko Oh No", that's SO funny! XD

This is not a video of Yatzee singing Under The Sea ? I'm disappointed.

There are a lot of really fun goals to pursue in this game. Breeding a stalker defense force to fight warpers, making a network of scan rooms that warn you of Reaper Leviathans, building an elaborate base in each biome . . . Its hard to get bored.

Best review in a while. It’s funny how the ones you actually like are the best ones

Not gonna lie: I've been looking forward to your review of Subnautica for a LONG time now. And I was not dissapointed. :)

"WHO DARES TRESSPASS ON FORTRESS OCCELOTTE ALPHA!?"

"WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON THE FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA?" Made me laugh. XD

when he started to talk about base building and that he wasn't fussed about it and then it ends up being a fortress made me piss myself laughing

This is as close as this guy gets to complimenting something! That's how you know the game is amazing.

This has got to be the eleventebazillionth time I've come back to this video, but dammit if I haven't at LEAST sunk that much time into this game! It is SO damn good. This vid sums up...well, just about everything! XD

That base building part is so true lmao 😂

You had me rolling with this one.

I lost control at Fortress Ocelot Alpha! Also, everything about that scene made me want to buy it :)

''WHO DARES TRESPASS UPON FORTRESS OCELOT ALPHA'' LOL

I totally got the Blake Edwards joke, chiefly because that has always been one of my favorite movies!

2:28 Actually, the game provides you with a clue for cave sulphur. If you enter a cave, the PDA says "Detecting sulphur deposits in the local cave systems. Sulphur is an essential component of the repair tool." It's also in the name, CAVE sulphur. So, I'm pretty sure you would find it eventually because you already knew that it would be somewhere in the cave system. I stumbled upon it in my first playthrough after exploring for only a couple minutes. But as for Kyanite, yeah. Kyanite is a little annoying, I wish they provided some kind of clue as to where kyanite is.