Epic Games releases Subnautica for free as it takes aim at Steam – but you’ve got to be quick
Fortnite maker is looking to make inroads into the PC games market quickly, and is giving away one of the year's best sleeper hits to kick things off
YOU probably haven't heard of Subnautica, an underwater survival game that came out in January, much less played it.
That's a shame, because it's one of the best and most creative games to come out this year with unique mechanics, amazing atmosphere and an engaging story.
Thankfully, you can correct your oversight right now, for nothing, thanks to Epic Games.
Subnautica, normally £19.49, from now until Christmas Day as the Fortnite maker tries to pull gamers into its new store.
Subnautica is developed by Unknown Worlds, and is a first-person survival game set in the oceans of a mysterious alien planet.
You scavenge for resources first to survive, and then to help you explore further through oceans teeming with life that ranges from tiny fish to enormous and sometimes deadly creatures.
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The game lets you build submarines, bases and tools as you try and fulfil you mission of finding out what happened to another ship sent to investigate the planet several years earlier.
It's the first of more than 20 games that Epic is going to be giving away every couple of weeks for the next year as it splashes some of the cash it's made from flogging skins in Fortnite to take on Valve's Steam Store, the default go-to online shop for PC games.
As well as giving free games to gamers, Epic has also promised to take a significantly smaller cut from developers to keep the store running, and tempt them away from Steam.
Popular gaming chat service Discord has also upped the ante with its own game store, promising to only take a ten per cent cut from sales with the rest going straight to developers.
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