Breath Edge. I was looking for a new subnautica-like experience, having given up on any expectations from the sequel currently in development when the new owners got rid of the original devs (imo just pirate the original so they don't get money from owning that, too).

Maybe I dropped it too soon, but Breath Edge didn't give that sense of making progress. I was stuck having to go back to the same starting point after every trip. Those trips are longer, but I found progressing and exploring to just be annoying and frustrating rather than fun and rewarding and what you do find underwhelming. I stopped when it looked like it wanted me to set up "path extenders" for kms with effects that frost the helmet to 0 visibility. There's probably some mechanisms I'm about to unlock that will make those easier but I just don't want to.

Maybe I'll try looking at a walkthrough to see what the next steps are and decide if it's worthwhile (maybe I'm missing something important that makes the rest of it much less of a pain), but there's plenty of other games to play so I'm not worried.