Discover games similar to Subnautica: Below Zero, and find your next adventure.
Subnautica: Below Zero is Unknown Worlds Entertainment's standalone follow-up, trading the original's tropical waters for a colder, more vertical alien region with its own story and mysteries to piece together. You still scavenge, build and dive to survive, but the frozen surface above the sea adds a new layer to explore. We like how the colder setting makes familiar systems feel fresh again.
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Built around open world survival craft, underwater and survival, much like the game you started from.
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Leans on open world survival craft, underwater and survival — the same pull that makes the original click.
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Brings open world survival craft, survival and crafting to the table, with its own spin.
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The Forest shares Below Zero's first-person survival-and-discovery loop, swapping an alien ocean for a mysterious forested peninsula full of its own threats and secrets to uncover.
Its horror-leaning tone and above-ground building focus give it a tenser, more combat-prone feel than Below Zero's exploration-first pace.
Shares open world survival craft, base building and survival with a similar overall feel.
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Breathedge takes Below Zero's gathering-and-crafting survival loop into space, wrapped in a comedic tone that plays the whole ordeal for laughs.
Its zero-gravity space setting and humor are a real departure from Below Zero's colder, more atmospheric underwater world.
Built around open world survival craft, survival and base building, much like the game you started from.
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Green Hell applies the same careful, detail-heavy survival systems to an Amazon rainforest, with crafting, foraging and health management standing in for Below Zero's oxygen and cold.
There's no ocean to explore here — the challenge is entirely about surviving a hostile jungle on foot.
Leans on open world survival craft, survival and underwater — the same pull that makes the original click.
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Stranded Deep keeps the same ocean setting and gathering-crafting loop as Below Zero, building a life around scattered islands and the water between them.
Its focus on raft-building and island survival, with a much smaller cast of story elements, makes it a quieter, more open-ended sandbox than Below Zero.
Brings open world survival craft, survival and crafting to the table, with its own spin.
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Shares open world survival craft, survival and base building with a similar overall feel.
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Raft shares Below Zero's crafting-and-gathering loop, with a small floating platform standing in for Below Zero's underwater base as the thing you expand over time.
Its online co-op and ever-growing floating base make building the main focus, rather than Below Zero's exploration and story.
Built around open world survival craft, survival and open world, much like the game you started from.
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Leans on open world survival craft, survival and base building — the same pull that makes the original click.
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We look for games that share something worth loving about Subnautica: Below Zero. The match score compares game data and is relative to the closest match in this list. Our picks below add our own perspective: why each game appeals to us, who it suits, and where it takes a different path.
Our picks, beyond the numbers
Below Zero turns an alien ocean into a place worth investigating slowly: every new depth might hide a resource, a creature, or a piece of a story you have to piece together yourself. We picked games that carry that same feeling of discovery and quiet survival pressure, even where the setting moves from underwater to open sky or frozen tundra.
A couple of these share Below Zero's crafting-and-exploration structure directly; others swap the alien ocean for space, a raft, or a frozen wilderness while keeping the same patient curiosity at the center. Here's where we'd send a Below Zero player next.
For a home you build as you go
Raft begins with almost nothing — a small floating platform — and turns it into a growing base you expand plank by plank while gathering resources from the ocean around you. Like Below Zero, survival here means paying attention to what the water gives you and planning around it.
We like it for friends who enjoy building their way through an ocean journey together — it supports online co-op, which turns gathering and construction into a genuinely shared project rather than a solo task.
Its floating, ever-expanding base and strong cooperative focus differ from Below Zero's fixed exploration of an alien sea — there's no story to uncover in the same way, and the building itself, not the discovery, is the main driver.
For changing an alien world
The Planet Crafter ties resource gathering and building to a clear long-term goal: terraforming a hostile planet into something breathable, one atmospheric milestone at a time. It shares Below Zero's methodical crafting progression, but with a single, visible endpoint to work toward.
We'd choose it for a Below Zero player who wants that same careful resource planning but likes having one big, trackable project instead of Below Zero's more exploration- and story-driven pacing.
Its focus is transforming an entire planet rather than exploring an alien ocean, and there's no underwater creature ecosystem to study — expect a much more goal-oriented, checklist-driven kind of progress.
For new worlds to land on
No Man's Sky offers planetary exploration, gathering and base-building across a vast procedurally generated universe, with online co-op if you want to explore alongside others. Like Below Zero, every new location can hold a resource, a creature or a reason to stop and look around.
It's our pick for players who want to keep discovering new places rather than exhausting one setting — where Below Zero gives you one alien sea to fully understand, No Man's Sky keeps handing you somewhere new.
Its spaceflight and procedurally generated planets differ considerably from Below Zero's single, hand-crafted setting — the trade-off is breadth over the tightly authored detail Below Zero puts into its one location.
For survival in space with a sense of humor
Breathedge takes the familiar gathering-and-crafting survival loop into space, following a stranded protagonist piecing together a way to survive among the wreckage of a destroyed cruise liner — all narrated with a constant stream of jokes.
We like it for players who want Below Zero's familiar survival concerns in an entirely different setting, with a much lighter tone than Below Zero's quieter, more melancholic atmosphere.
Its humor and zero-gravity space setting contrast sharply with Below Zero's more serious, atmospheric underwater world — this is a comedic take on a similar mechanical skeleton rather than a tonal match.
For surviving the cold instead of the deep
The Long Dark makes weather, fatigue and scarce supplies the central threat as you navigate a frozen Canadian wilderness after a plane crash — no aliens, no ocean, just you against the elements.
We'd pick it for the tension of planning carefully for a hostile environment, which Below Zero also asks of you — just moved from freezing water and alien creatures to a frozen landscape and the simple math of calories and warmth.
Its grounded, realistic setting and complete absence of alien life or underwater exploration replace Below Zero's sci-fi premise entirely. Choose this when the appeal is the careful planning itself, not the specific alien-ocean setting.
For a shared building project, start with Raft. Planet Crafter is our pick if you want one big, trackable terraforming goal, and No Man's Sky is where we'd send you to keep discovering new places rather than settling into one. Breathedge is the choice for the same survival loop with real humor attached, and The Long Dark is for players who want the careful planning without any alien life at all.