Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is a video showcasing how Subnautica: Below Zero changed throughout the 3 years of it's development (from 2019 to 2021) This showcases the changes to the story, the environments, the dialogue, and more. This took a lot of time to make, so I hope you enjoy.

This video showcases 3 different builds:
EA1 (the release) from January 30th 2019
EA7 (Deep Dive) from November 27th 2019
Full Release from May 14th 2021

I got the idea to make this video when I looked back at my poorly edited "Subnautica: Old and New" video from 2017 where I compared 3 different builds of the original subnautica from 2014, 2016, and the latest at the time, 2017. I thought it would be fun to make another comparison type video like that, so I decided to make one for Below Zero, since it just recently had it's full release.

I will be "remaking" the original subnautica development comparison video using builds from 2014, 2017 and the full release. It will be in the style of this one and it will be made soon.

I hope you enjoy, this was the biggest video I've ever made.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
14:25 - Shallow Twisty Bridges
15:10 - Sanctuary Zero (meeting Al-An)
30:09 - Thermal Spires
31:13 - Meeting Marguerit
34:25 - Rocket/radio
35:21 - Marguerit's base
40:02 - Delta Island
40:52 - Glacial Bay, Glacial Basin layout, and snowfox
49:40 - Glacial Basin
50:28 - Frozen Creature/Kharaa
59:33 - Frozen Creature cave
1:00:20 - Seatruck
1:05:42 - Deep Twisty Bridges
1:06:47 - Ice Worm
1:10:12 - Deep Lilypads Cave
1:11:15 - Deep Lilypads Cache/body1
1:14:08 - Arctic Spires Cache/body2
1:18:09 - Crystal Caves Cache/body3
1:22:15 - Crystal Castle
1:23:32 - Sending Enzyme 42
1:26:24 - Lilypads
1:27:51 - Fabricator Base/building Al-An's body
1:37:40 - Phase Gate