Steam Early Access has changed the way games are launched: gone are the years of waiting for a game, only seeing gameplay snippets in a string of trailers. With Early Access you can sometimes be playing a game as soon as it is mak. It has brought a new thrill, the thrill of a journey and a collaboration between community and developer. Subnautica is perhaps one of the best examples of this new way of developing games. It is an underwater survival game, where you play as an unfortunate soul who has crash landed on an lonely sci-fi planet. With few hhe, it is up to you to decide how you will eat, drink, and escape — all while carefully managing your oxygen supply. It goes to an experimental branch and then we do the non-experimental patches every month. It was not really an option for independent developer Unknown Worlds to create Subnautica in this way. Subnautica is the first game Moeny have encountered that is made through such open development. In future, even those might not be off ...