The legal dispute between Krafton and the former heads of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds took an unexpected turn today as Unknown Worlds—not Krafton, but Unknown Worlds specifically—has sued its former bosses for abandoning their responsibilities to the studio and Subnautica 2, breaching their employee agreements by stealing confidential materials prior to their dismissal, and damaging the reputation of the studio and the next Subnautica game.
The broad strokes of the matter are already pretty well known: The former heads of Unknown Worlds—Subnautica designer and director Charlie Cleveland, CEO Ted Gill, and studio co-founder Max McGuire—accuse Krafton of sabotaging and intentionally delaying Subnautica 2 in order to avoid paying a $250 million earnout to the studio, while Krafton insists Subnautica 2 is nowhere near ready for release, even in early access, but that the trio were determined to push ahead with it anyway, even though doing so risks turning it into another Kerbal Space Program 2.
