Subnautica 2 Sells 2 Million Units in 12 Hours - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 May 2026 / 2,423 Views
Developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment announced Subnautica 2 has sold over two million units in its first 12 hours after launch. This is up from over one million units sold in its first hour.
The game also surpassed a peak of 651,000 concurrent players across all platforms combined. Steam alone surpassed 467,000 concurrent players. This is nine times the all-time concurrent player count of the original Subnautica.
There were also over 413,000 peak concurrent viewers on Twitch and 109,000 peak concurrent viewers on YouTube Live.
Subnautica 2 released in Early Access for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass on May 14.
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This is why I dont believe the latest COD's failure was due to Gamepass. This, Palword, COE33 and Forza have proven that you can sell a lot while being on GP. And COD was supposed to be more popular than all of these games.
Interestingly, Gamepass appears to affect MS published games way more than third party games. Maybe because of the assurance that they’ll never leave the service.
It's a combination of factor but that's not say Gamepass doesn't have an impact. It effects sales on Xbox platforms, so any game which gets a high portion of its sales from Xbox will be more impacted by Gamepass. COD obviously underperformed on PC/PS as well, so gamepass isn't the reason for the lower sales but it will certainly contribute to it but cutting Xbox sales in half.
Had they release on PS5 instead of satanicsoft uselessbox and their dirty corrupt bribe it would have sold close to 4 million instead!
Stupid developer...
Ill get it on ps5, hopefully
Yeah I have it on gamepass but also bought it, like the other games , I love subnautica;
Just brought it today, 1st game was a masterpiece
That good? I've got it but never got the time to play it. In backlog
It is one of the best Indie Survival games iv ever played.
I wrote a forum post about it awhile ago. I 100% both the main game and DLC.
If you love deep water exploring, its amazing.
My review below
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/244717/subnautica-the-silence-masterpiece/
Nice review. Yeah i love underwater exploration.
