{"id":5774,"date":"2026-03-19T04:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/subnautica-2-early-access-release-set-for-may\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:32:05","slug":"subnautica-2-early-access-release-set-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/subnautica-2-early-access-release-set-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Subnautica 2 Early Access Release Set for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>According to a new report, Unknown Worlds is preparing to release underwater survival game <em>Subnautica 2 <\/em>in Early Access in just a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by IGN, an internal memo sent to employees by Unknown Worlds head Steve Papoutsis confirms that <em>Subnautica 2 <\/em>will enter its Early Access period in May, and that this date was &#8220;unanimously&#8221; agreed upon by Unknown Worlds management and parent company Krafton.<\/p>\n<p>Krafton itself also confirmed to IGN that Papoutsis&#8217; message to staff was &#8220;accurate&#8221;, and that the publisher is fully behind launching the game in May, believing that it&#8217;s ready for this initial phase of its rollout.<\/p>\n<p><em>Subnautica 2 <\/em>is apparently ready to dive into Early Access in May.<\/p>\n<p>News of <em>Subnautica 2<\/em>&#8216;s Early Access release period (although, admittedly, not its specific launch date) follows on from this week&#8217;s court ruling that former CEO Ted Gill must be reinstated and that his original dismissal from Unknown Worlds on Krafton&#8217;s part was unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Krafton says it &#8220;respectfully disagree[s]&#8221; with the ruling and that it intends to &#8220;explore all legal avenues&#8221; relating to said decision, but that its core goal is to &#8220;minimize disruption to the team and to the release plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, this saga began when <em>Subnautica 2<\/em>, which was originally due to hit Early Access last year, was delayed to 2026, a decision that also saw Krafton firing the three co-founders of Unknown Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Said co-founders then filed a lawsuit against Krafton, alleging that the game was ready for release in 2025 and that Krafton had delayed it in order to avoid paying out a big bonus relating to revenue goals (which <em>Subnautica 2 <\/em>would almost certainly have helped the studio to hit).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that the light is finally at the end of the (presumably underwater) tunnel for the <em>Subnautica 2 <\/em>team. The game is due to land on PC and Xbox Series X|S in Early Access this May. Stay tuned for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report, Unknown Worlds is preparing to release underwater survival game Subnautica 2 in Early Access in just a couple of months. As reported by IGN, an internal memo sent to employees by Unknown Worlds head Steve Papoutsis confirms that Subnautica 2 will enter its Early Access period in May, and that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2436,2435,541,240,5646],"class_list":{"0":"post-5774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-access","9":"tag-early","10":"tag-release","11":"tag-set","12":"tag-subnautica"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}