Subnautica 2 dev says people like survival games so much because they speak to our "little monkey brains" and "we're all little monkeys"

A woman in a underwater machine waving during the cinematic teaser for Subnautica 2. .

Guess what: I'm a little monkey. And you? Ha, I bet you thought this day would never come, but you've been revealed as a little monkey, too. The truth is, every single person you've ever met is a silly baby monkey – picking their nose, eating an overripe banana, playing Subnautica 2…

At least, they are in the mad, monkey world according to Subnautica 2 designer Anthony Gallegos, who tells Edge for its magazine issue 414 that – as you may have guessed by now – "we're all little monkeys," and this fact of existence might be what draws us to survival games.