If the team consensus moves, we will keep you updated. That’s Subnautica multiplayer as it stands today. Maybe before v1.0 we’ll figure out a way to hire another team to help us with networking, or maybe we’ll release a new version of the game later that supports co-op (like Klei did with “Don’t Starve Together”).” The most important thing is to make sure the exploration, crafting and creature experience is working well.

So we’re not sure what we’re going to do, but we’re not working on multiplayer right now. If our small team decided to add multiplayer right now, we probably wouldn’t be able to improve any other aspect of the game for a very long time. We almost have to start over from the beginning, as it affects everything. Now we find ourselves in a difficult situation: we all really want co-op player, but adding it would take us many months of work. However, as we started to develop the game, we skipped multiplayer to be able to release the game faster. In fact, the game was originally conceived of as a co-op experience. “Adding multiplayer support to Subnautica is something we would love to do. This is Charlie’s take on the current status of multiplayer in Subnautica:

Every day, several threads pop up on the Steam and Unknown Worlds Subnautica forums asking: “When will Subnautica get multiplayer?.” Subnautica multiplayer is a question of Cyclops-sized proportions.

Click here to read Charlie’s post talking about why. UPDATE (): Subnautica will be a single-player game only, and will not receive multiplayer.

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