Subnautica
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Developers | |
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Unknown Worlds Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Former | Unity 5[Note 1] |
Former | Unity 2018[Note 2] |
Unity 2019[Note 3] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 23, 2018 |
macOS (OS X) | January 23, 2018 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 87 |
OpenCritic | 85 |
IGDB | 84 |
Taxonomy | |
Genres | Open world |
Sports | Water sports |
Series | Subnautica |
Subnautica | |
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Subnautica | 2018 |
Subnautica: Below Zero | 2021 |
Subnautica 2 | TBA |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Can be run DRM-free when launched directly from the executable with -EpicPortal command line argument.[4][5] |
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Humble Store | ||||
Microsoft Store | Xbox Play Anywhere | |||
Steam | DRM-free when launched directly from executable. Steam.exe must be disabled temporarily to run drm-free (renamed/uninstalled/etc.). |
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Discord (unavailable) |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SNAppData\SavedGames\options\options.bin[Note 4] |
Microsoft Store | |
macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/unity.Unknown Worlds.Subnautica/Subnautica/SavedGames/options/options.bin |
Epic Games Launcher | %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica\Subnautica\SavedGames\options\options.bin |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/264710/pfx/[Note 5] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SNAppData\SavedGames[Note 4] |
Microsoft Store | |
macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/unity.Unknown Worlds.Subnautica/Subnautica/SavedGames |
Epic Games Launcher | %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica\Subnautica\SavedGames |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/264710/pfx/[Note 5] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Discord | ||
Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Xbox Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | To adjust the HUD, use HudConfig. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | To adjust the HUD, use HudConfig. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Slider from 40° to 90° vertical. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | "Fullscreen" is Borderless Windowed with Flip Interval[6] | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Can be forced through GPU control panel | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA or TAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Can be capped to 30–500 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.
Run in exclusive fullscreen mode
Use the -window-mode exclusive command line argument
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Two keys per action. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | In-game slider uses approximate values. Can be changed precisely by amending the options file with a hexadecimal editor. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Has to be enabled from settings with mouse or keyboard. | |
Controller remapping | Two buttons per action. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Settings has option for PS4 controller, but this is only for prompts. |
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Tracked motion controllers |
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Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Keyboard and mouse input immidiately stops controller input. |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, Music, Voice, and Ambient volume sliders. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Afrikaans | ||||
Bulgarian | ||||
Catalan | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Croatian | ||||
Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Estonian | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Greek | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Irish | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Latvian | ||||
Lithuanian | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Romanian | ||||
Russian | 1) Fan voice-over by «Mechanics VoiceOver». 2) Fan voice-over by «GamesVoice» |
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Serbian | Available in Latin and Cyrillic scripts | |||
Slovak | ||||
Slovenian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Swedish | ||||
Thai | ||||
Turkish | ||||
Ukrainian | ||||
Vietnamese |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Subnautica [DX11]. | ||
vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Headsets | |||
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SteamVR | |||
Oculus VR (LibOVR) | |||
Windows Mixed Reality | |||
OSVR |
Devices | |||
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Tracked motion controllers | |||
Traditional controller | See Input for details. | ||
Keyboard/Mouse |
Play area | |||
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Seated | |||
Standing | |||
Room-scale |
VR enhancements
Enables correct animations, audio and UI when playing in VR.[7] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 | |
OpenGL | 4.4 | macOS[8], can be forced on Windows with -force-opengl [9] |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | FMOD |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Vista SP2 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Haswell 2 cores / 4 threads @ 2.5 GHz | Intel Haswell 4 cores / 4 threads @ 3.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 20 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Intel HD Graphics 4600 DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit system is required.
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.9 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Haswell 2 cores / 4 threads @ 2.5 GHz | Intel Haswell 4 cores / 4 threads @ 3.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 20 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Intel HD Graphics 4600 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unity engine build: 5.6.2p4UnknownWorlds[1]
- ↑ Unity engine build: 2018.2.16f1UnknownWorlds[2]
- ↑ Unity engine build: 2019.4.36f1[3]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/264710/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (264710) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-05-17
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-11-12
- ↑ Verified by User:SuperSamus on 2023-08-10
- ↑ Verified by User:Gherkin555 on 2019-01-03
- ↑ Verified by User:nccvoyager on 2019-01-03
- ↑ Verified by User:ChaosBahamut on 2021-05-31
- Verified using Special K
- ↑ VR Enhancements - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ What rendering API does Subnautica use? (Steam Forums) - last accessed on 2023-02-07
- "We use DirectX 11 in Subnautica on PC, OpenGL on Mac."
- ↑ Subnautica Troubleshooting (Steam Guides) - last accessed on 2023-04-28
- "If you're still having issues with Direct3D, please try forcing OpenGL [...]
-force-opengl
."
- "If you're still having issues with Direct3D, please try forcing OpenGL [...]