Not only are there an aquarium's worth of new fauna and flora to harvest, run from, or merely observe, but Unknown Worlds has introduced a number of special tools and gadgets with which to explore and study its frozen biome. If the title wasn't something of a giveaway, Below Zero is also set in a much cooler region of Planet 4546B than the ocean we dropped into last time, and this environmental shift has an equally transformative effect on its survival horror rhythms. Robin has purpose and personality, and Unknown Worlds wants to make sure those two things bleed into all aspects of gameplay. You're thus no longer merely trying to escape Planet 4546B in Below Zero, as you were in the original game. Oh, sorry, did we not mention that you have an ancient extraterrestrial living inside your head in Below Zero? It's the key driver of the expansion's plot, in which a mysterious hyper-advanced entity hijacks Robin's mind after she accidentally awakes it from slumber, and the pair must work together to help it find a more suitable host.
It becomes a much bigger challenge to mix those different story elements together the background lore along with the more immediate conflict of trying to talk to this alien stuck in your brain!" So from the very beginning, it was an area that the team was interested in exploring more - creating a story that's alive, as opposed to just baked into the environment. "Story was something that was added pretty late to the first game," he tells me, "and we didn't get to push as far as we'd have liked to with it. Kalina explains that this came from "a desire to avoid repeating ourselves and push into new areas of direction". Whereas Subnautica's unravelling mystery was all 'show, don't tell', Below Zero has dedicated voice acting, scripted sequences, and even the odd cutscene or two. For one thing, the studio is aiming for what it calls a "story forward narrative", where plot remains a key driver to your time playing as new protagonist Robin. Instead, Unknown Worlds hopes to address areas of the original Subnautica where choppy waters would sometimes undermine the player experience. But Below Zero isn't just delivering the same package in a different skin.
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