Same goes for following signals that your pod can receive-which you then track through your suit. If you’re afraid of getting lost as you search some underwater caves, then you can make a dive reel that you can follow to get back to the surface when you’re done. If you find an interesting landmark while exploring the planet, then it’s up to you to decide to craft a beacon and leave it there so you can have a marker leading you back. To further support this idea of an immersive experience-there’s little in the way of intrusive UI prompts, or tutorial guidance. You’re left on your own to decide how to survive, and how to sustain yourself on this foreign planet. Nor does it offer you anything solid in the way of direction. Your escape pod has a voiced computer interface that occasionally warns you of things, but it has little personality.

The best way I can describe this game is that it really tries to make you feel like you’re stranded on an alien world. You even start the game in the same way: waking up after crashing onto a planet. You have futuristic technology to help you. Let’s start with Subnautica because it’s the closest on this list to No Man’s Sky.

Those will come after they’re officially released. Two of them are in Early Access which is also why I’m not doing direct reviews. They’ll be light on spoilers for that reason. These are three games that I would like to do an in-depth review on one day-each with their own video devoted to just that-but this video will function more as an introduction to the core ideas in each game to help you decide if you would enjoy them or not. If you watch my videos for lengthy game reviews and critiques, then you might want to skip this video.

Quite a few people wanted to know more about them, so I thought it might be worth some time to give a brief overview of those three games: Subnautica, The Long Dark, and Don’t Starve. At the end of my video on No Man’s Sky, I mentioned three games that you could purchase that do parts of that game much better.

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