I've had a lifelong fear of large bodies of water, maybe because I grew up smackdab in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It's bad enough that I can only tread water in a lake or, heaven forbid, the ...

Thalassophobia is an unsurprisingly common fear among us humans, given how we're air breathers who at best can scrape the surface of our planet's seas. That's why Subnautica, with all its exploration ...

I have a distinct memory from when I was maybe 10 years old of opening my eyes underwater in a lake and not being able to see the bottom. I was gripped with a primordial fear that I now know has a ...

You might not guess from the bright colors and funny looking fish, but Subnautica is one of the most deeply terrifying games I’ve ever played. It took an incredible amount of willpower for me to leave ...

2018's seafaring survival game Subnautica was a major breath of fresh air in the open world space, with its rich, teeming world to explore and, yes, how keenly it exploited our collective ...

There is something inherently unsettling about the ocean. For many gamers, that specific brand of thalassophobia was solidified by Subnautica, a game that took the survival genre and plunged it into ...