Subnautica vs Subnautica: Below Zero
Reviews on Steam
Subnautica
3.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Subnautica
6.9pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Subnautica
3.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Subnautica: Below Zero
3 years apart
Subnautica
2018 · Adventure
Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Reviews
- 331,738
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 29.9M
- Net rev
- $511.4M
Subnautica: Below Zero
2021 · Adventure
Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Reviews
- 97,547
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 8.8M
- Net rev
- $150.4M
Tag overlap
95% shared , 19 shared tags, 1 only on Subnautica, 1 only on Subnautica: Below Zero.
Only Subnautica
VR
Shared
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalHorrorOpen WorldUnderwaterExplorationCraftingBase-BuildingSingleplayerAdventureFirst-PersonSci-fiMultiplayerSandboxAtmosphericAliensSurvival HorrorActionIndie
Only Subnautica: Below Zero
Story Rich
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.017.9M to 41.8M
units (median: 29.9M)
≈ $306.9M to $716.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.05.3M to 12.3M
units (median: 8.8M)
≈ $90.2M to $210.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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