Subnautica 2's lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: 'This is going to make many people sad and scared'
Getting ambushed by a reaper leviathan in Subnautica has, by now, become a canonical PC gaming experience. It's distilled oceanic horror, confirming all the player's thalassophobic anxieties in a singular moment of aquatic violence—and in an interview with PC Gamer, Subnautica 2 game design lead Anthony Gallegos said it had only become bearable after years of working on the sequel... Read more.
Getting ambushed by a reaper leviathan in Subnautica has, by now, become a canonical PC gaming experience. It's distilled oceanic horror, confirming all the player's thalassophobic anxieties in a singular moment of aquatic violence—and in an interview with PC Gamer, Subnautica 2 game design lead Anthony Gallegos said it had only become bearable after years of working on the sequel... Read more.
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