Subnautica 2, the brand new underwater survival recreation from Unknown Worlds, took lower than an hour to rocket up Steam’s charts. The sport has already bought greater than 1 million copies, consistent with a press unlock, and as of this writing, Steam’s charts display that Subnautica 2 is these days the fourth-most performed recreation at the platform with greater than 460,000 concurrent gamers. The one titles with extra concurrent gamers presently are perennial heavy hitters Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG: Battlegrounds.
It’s additionally price noting that Steam’s Subnautica 2 participant rely doesn’t come with gamers at the Epic Video games Retailer or on Xbox, the place the sport may be now to be had in early get entry to, so the full choice of concurrent gamers is almost definitely even upper.
The large release isn’t a complete wonder. Sooner than unlock, Subnautica 2 were given 5 million wishlists and was once the most-wishlisted recreation on Steam. It’s a followup to the well-received Subnautica and Subnautica: Beneath 0. And it was once additionally on the middle of a long felony dispute between Unknown Worlds executives and the Unknown Worlds’ proprietor, Krafton — and round when that took place, the sport was once behind schedule from a deliberate 2025 early get entry to release, ostensibly because of comments from playtests.
After a pass judgement on’s ruling in March that reinstated the studio’s CEO and prolonged the eligibility window for a doubtlessly vital bonus for Unknown Worlds’s builders, the sport were given its new early get entry to release date. The studio expects that the early get entry to duration will ultimate for “about” two to a few years.
