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Pre-purchase and Pre-load Subnautica 2 Early Access Starting Today!

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Hello Subnauts,

We want to extend a huge thank you to the entire community for your ongoing support and enthusiasm for Subnautica 2.

As the Early Access launch rapidly approaches, we’ve heard so many of your requests to pre-load Subnautica 2 on Steam.

We want to enable you to get into the game as quickly as possible on May 14th!

This is why we’re enabling pre-purchasing and pre-loading for Subnautica 2 for 72 hours leading up to the launch, for those of you who want to dive in immediately on Thursday.

You can head over to the Steam page now to pre-purchase the game!

And don’t forget to join our official Discord server and share your excitement for Subnautica 2 with the rest of the community.

We can’t wait to see you in the depths!

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