A New Subnautica Game Appears to Be In Development
A new entry in the Subnautica series is coming as Unknown Worlds begins looking to expand its team for the next Subnautica universe project. The studio's first-person survival game series has already shown off two distinct areas of a single planet, but the details seem to indicate even higher ambitions this time around.
Currently two games exist in the Subnautica series, each letting the player explore and survive in a distinct area of ocean-covered alien planet 4546-B. The first game featured a lush tropical area while the second took place several years later at the planet's polar ice cap.
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A job posting advertised on Unknown Worlds' official social media outlines a position for a senior narrative designer, indicating that the applicant will join very early in the game's development and be highly influential in the story. The post confirms that the game will be set in the same universe, but does not indicate whether it will be a direct sequel or spinoff. Subnautica is heavily narrative-driven, so a new writer has an opportunity to take the series in interesting directions. Interestingly, the posting specifies «a new science fiction world,» indicating that the game may be planned to take place on a planet other than 4546-B.
Given that Subnautica's terrifying sci-fi universe contains many indications it could share a universe with Unknown Worlds' earlier series Natural Selection, a new Subnautica entry could bring the parallels even closer together. Even though the Natural Selection series is focused on competitive play and Subnautica is single-player only, more connections between the games would create a deeper web of lore for fans to dive into, similarly to the way
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