{"id":78070,"date":"2026-05-14T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78070"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:36:30","slug":"subnautica-2-overcomes-pre-release-controversy-to-become-massive-hit-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78070","title":{"rendered":"Subnautica 2 Overcomes Pre-Release Controversy To Become Massive Hit On Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subnautica 2 has only been out for about an hour, but it’s already attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam alone.<\/p>\n

Unknown Worlds Entertainment launched Subnautica 2<\/a> on Steam and Xbox Series X|S at 11 AM ET today, May 14. There was a ton of interest right out of the gate, and a look at Steam’s most-played games<\/a> shows some eye-watering concurrent player count stats. At the time of writing, its last reported peak concurrent player count was 465,204, and that number is trending upwards. <\/p>\n

That dwarfs the launches of other hit Steam games this year, like Windrose<\/a> and Slay the Spire 2<\/a>. It’s even more impressive when you consider that SteamDB doesn’t take those playing on Xbox Series X|S or through the Xbox and Epic Games launchers on PC.<\/p>\n

Subnautica 2 was the most-wishlisted game on Steam prior to its launch, and it’s clear that those wishlists are converting into sales. The game’s developer has already confirmed<\/a> that more than 1 million copies have been sold.<\/p>\n

This successful launch also comes after a very tumultuous final year of development. In July 2025, Unknown Worlds’ parent company, Krafton, forcibly delayed the game<\/a> into 2025 and tried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subnautica 2 has only been out for about an hour, but it’s already attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam alone. Unknown Worlds Entertainment launched Subnautica 2 on Steam and Xbox Series X|S at 11 AM ET today, May 14. There was a ton of interest right out of the gate, and a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":78072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78073,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78070\/revisions\/78073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}