Subnautica has a freeze ray and poison torpedoes. You can literally freeze even the biggest monsters in place and just stab the shit out of them while they can't do anything.
It is a fucking terrifying game though. I felt real, physical pain getting into the water at night in the part of the map where there literally isn't even anything dangerous, but gradually the fact that you actually have a massive mobility advantage in the water over everything else helps make you feel more at home in it, even if the game does sort of continuously force you to push your comfort zone to progress. I wouldn't call it a treatment for thalassophobia by any means, but you do get desensitized to it in-game at least because that ocean is yours and you're the scariest thing in it.
I mean that part is still scary. Even when I had the vehicles and there was no risk of drowning, I would still be scared of the leviathans and the sand sharks. But the scariest part of the game was early on when you have to traverse the wrecks with tight tunnels and you have a very limited amount of oxygen to do so.
Subnautica has a freeze ray and poison torpedoes. You can literally freeze even the biggest monsters in place and just stab the shit out of them while they can't do anything.
It is a fucking terrifying game though. I felt real, physical pain getting into the water at night in the part of the map where there literally isn't even anything dangerous, but gradually the fact that you actually have a massive mobility advantage in the water over everything else helps make you feel more at home in it, even if the game does sort of continuously force you to push your comfort zone to progress. I wouldn't call it a treatment for thalassophobia by any means, but you do get desensitized to it in-game at least because that ocean is yours and you're the scariest thing in it.
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Yes it's definitely a strange choice. I found Subnautica pretty scary, though it was mostly for the fear of drowning and getting trapped.
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I mean that part is still scary. Even when I had the vehicles and there was no risk of drowning, I would still be scared of the leviathans and the sand sharks. But the scariest part of the game was early on when you have to traverse the wrecks with tight tunnels and you have a very limited amount of oxygen to do so.