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Somewhere beyond the sea lies Subnautica Below Zip, the sequel to Unknown Worlds Entertainment's open up-earth survival championship. If you're an Xbox Game Laissez passer subscriber and like underwater games, you've likely played Subnautica before, simply nosotros have some bad news if yous want to play its sequel on the service.

Is Subnautica Below Null available for Game Pass subscribers?

To put information technology simply, no. The beginning game is indeed playable on Microsoft'southward service, but unfortunately, Subnautica Below Zilch is not on Xbox Game Pass.

When should we await it to release on Xbox Game Laissez passer?

While there are no guarantees, we'd look to see Subnautica: Beneath Zip to come up in effectually two years' fourth dimension, unless Microsoft makes a deal much sooner. The kickoff game Subnautica originally released on Xbox and PC platforms on Jan 23, 2022, and its Xbox Game Pass debut began on Dec xiii, 2022.

Based on speculation, we typically run into indie games offset to go on auction a few months afterward their release. With Subnautica: Below Zero, Unknown Worlds Entertainment probable wants to maximize its profits before shifting to subscription services like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now.

Notwithstanding, there could be diverse factors at play for why a game would bring together Xbox Game Pass. The biggest reason is that information technology'south a great marketing tool for indie developers who have trouble branching out in Steam's competitive marketplace.

"It's been amazing especially since [Hyperdot's] been on Game Pass," said the founder of Hyperdot publisher Tribe Games Charles McGregor to Seasoned Gaming. "Information technology's been great to hear floods of people coming in and giving feedback, telling me I really like this or enjoy this, or this brought me dorsum to playing so and so game."