The Planet Crafter

This is subnautica without the sub...or the nautica. I give it a solid 8/10 If you just need to scratch THAT particular itch, this game is for you. It's a bit less focused on giving the player a story or goal to follow than Subnautica was, though these elements still exist in some form. Rather, the game pretty much goes all in on the first person (third person optional) survival+crafting part that made subnautica stand out among it's competitors. By adding in automation like one would find in satisfactory or factorio, this game truly pushes you to build logistics networks of supply lines and resource miners, while giving the player plenty of biomes, wrecks and other things to explore for rare goodies that might bring your crafting gameplay to the next stage. When I called it subnautica without the sub or the nautica, that also applies to it's worldbuilding. Sentinel Corp, the guys that sent you, the player, to this planet, are basically Alterra if Alterra dealt in giving convicts impossible tasks to complete for their "penance". There isn't much here we haven't seen from other "hypercapitalism in the future/space" we have seen countless other times. Some other very clearly subnautica inspired stuff occurs as well, but I'll keep spoilers here to a minimum. All in all, while I wouldn't recommend this game for it's story-telling or particularly interesting plotline, what exists here as gameplay is exactly the stuff you need to satiate the survival-crafting sim hunger you may have felt. It starts out very slow, very grindy, but the game takes up enough of your mental time to make everything fly by real fast, honestly. I have barely started the dlc, and so far it's pretty much just more of the same gameplay of the main game. Don't buy if you wish to be wowed with new mechanics and interesting twists, but if "more of the same" is exactly what you're looking for, then I would say go for the bundle. For the hours I've already put into this game, it's well worth the price.