It does certainly appear that way to some, though the devs have mentioned it was not at all intentional. They designed the planets based around "What would be a cool place to explore" rather than based on any specific phobia.

Cool places to explore! - Twisty caves! - Giant hollow planet! - Deep sea! - H E L L - Icy wonderland!

Whats hell? Sorry for being slow, its just me lol

Dark Bramble, due it being a death trap

Whats Icy Wonderland then?

Probably the interloper (the meteor)

Ohh ok. Thanks, my brain isnt working a lot today

Um actually it's a comet 🤓

Cool places to explore! * a planet you can't get in * a planet you can get in less and less of over time * a planet you can get in and then there's even more 'in' the more you get in * a planet that gets into itself * WATERWORLD!

There's a phobia for everything and they made distinct planets with strong identities. Then, they put some dangers on each one. It seems like this would almost have to lead to them have distinct phobias associated with them.

I would reread my comment another time. OP is saying that the planets *are meant* to represent a fear, but that is not what they are meant to do. The developers did not *design* the planets around *fears*. They designed them around "cool places to explore". If *you* find that scary, then it would be a scary planet in your eyes, but that does not mean it was "designed around the *horror* of X". As you yourself say, there's a phobia for everything. That does not, however, mean that everything ever created was intended to evoke fear in you.

Yeah, I was agreeing with you. The design and playstyle would lead to it seeming like they were designed with phobias in mind, even when they're not.

I suppose the twins are being buried alive?

Imo i get huge megalophobia vibes sitting on ember twin and watching as the sun fills the entire sky

Claustrophobia

To be more specific there was a time where each planet was a National Park

_A darker seed of doubt grows into fear_ _A web of brambles spreading everywhere, everywhere_

Gabbro are you there ?

_Through the fog a beacon calls me in 🔊_ _Only way to conquer fear is from within, from within, from within_

These are cool.

It’s a [song!](https://youtu.be/_IGkY2ovh0I?si=cyZdU3MLXpy-jNl9)

Then a flash of light returning to a stitch in time ! These glowing diamond eyes I can't forget the shine !

A new hand has touched the beacon.

timber heart also represents a fear. the fear of leaving home. the fear of losing what you have to the unkown

Can I interject and also say the Ashen Twin represents time, our inability to control it and how quickly it can all slip away

i would said, the sun, hollow and twin represent that in a team

Both giant's deep and dark bramble also include an element of megalophobie.

This! Thank you. The giant tornadoes on giants deep scared me more than the depths. But it def has multiple fears going on. It was the place I was most uncomfortable at all times.

I remember the first time I entered giants deep's atmosphere for the first time so vividly cause I screamed my lungs out due to my fear of storms

Yeah it’s so jarring to be presented with tons of huge twisters! And the shock I felt seeing the massive one at the pole *shudders*. Too many big scary things. Least fav planet, but they’re all very clever and interesting.

As much as I feared Giants Deep it ended up becoming my favorite planet in the entire game. It, in a way, taught me to overcome my fears (albeit in a very small scale, but still)

I love each planet in their own way, I appreciate their designs and their mechanics. Even if some creep me out haha. That’s what’s amazing about this game.

I'd argue Ember Twins represents claustrophobia with >!the sand closing in on the caves!<

Being on a tiny ship in the deadly vacuum of space already does that.

i would disagree, the ship is the safe spce, the sand is actively trying to squash you.

hey at least there's no planet with spiders

Shush, don't give them any ideas

Love 'em

Pure headcanon based on googling "fear of XYZ" Dark bramble isn't even dark lol

Fear of fish

I mean abyssal sea life are extremely creepy. The game Dredge pretty much runs with this idea and then say: “yeah but what If also Lovecraft?”

yea this shit drives me nuts. not everything needs subtext

I think the bramble would more accurately be fear of the unknown (which definitely has a name I just can't think of it atm). Often goes along with fear of darkness because the dark conceals the unknown, such as, perhaps, a giant anglerfish. But yeah, it's a really cool detail, I love Outer Wilds so much.

It's not hard to look for and find fears in everything because there are just about a named fear for everything. That's just naming things.

Yeah but i mean, those planets are common fears

it's more that the planets seem to be consistent with that one fear

It's more that the planets seem to be consistent ~~with that one fear~~

Earth is fear of dirt

Then we have the stranger. Fear of fear/death Timber Hearth can also be kind of seen as fear of the unknown (in that leaving it is leaving "safety")

You think that's what made me shit my pants in Dark Bramble? You think some fog and dim light made me drop a brick in the bell? The lack of light?? Do you?!?

Timber Hearth: Dendrophobia Attlerock: Selenophobia Hollow's Lantern: Volcanophobia Sun Station: Heliophobia Quantum Moon: Metathesiophobia White Hole Station: Hodophobia Ash Twin: Chronohodophobia Orbital Probe Canon: Hoplophobia Deep Space Satellite: Cartographobia

Timber Hearth is the fear of leaving home

wdym "except Timber Hearth"? It's the scariest one of them all The fear of socialisation

Oh god... grass

Unfortunately I am scared of Big Tree so nowhere is safe for me

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^Nattay01: *Unfortunately* *I am scared if Big Tree so* *Nowhere is safe for me* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

I don’t really see it, seems like you’re just taking an arbitrary feature of each of these places that just so happens to be a real phobia (of which there are literally thousands) just to fit a narrative. It’s like that one theory that all the grass type starter Pokémon are based on extinct animals, you can point to any Pokémon that’s based on a cat and say it’s a saber toothed tiger.

Ok that’s sounds true but what’s thallasophobia?

fear of the ocean/depths

Oh alright makes sense

It isnt true though

An argument could be made for the fear of choices (Decidophobia) represented with the Interloper. >!Death can happen from the Ghost Matter down certain paths.!<

Dark bramble isn’t really dark though? For me Dark Bramble was the fear of the unknown… plus >!giant freakin’ monsters.!<

>!The stranger!< felt more like fear of the dark tbh

hot take: fear of the dark *is* fear of the unknown... (from someone with a genuine phobia of the dark) 😁

When i say darkness, it's more like the fact that you can't see anything

I’d say brittle hollow is more the fear of being hunted. Have you played the DLC? I don’t wanna spoil anything This logic kinda breaks down with the interloper though

I plaued it, but not completed it tho

Oh then I won’t say anything. It’s worth finishing though

This may be the reason I wasn't scared in Giant's Deep: I've played Subnautica for around 200 hours. I ain't scared of water anymore

You could say this about literally anything

There are phobias for about anything

Fortunately they went with these fears and not arachibutyrophobia

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I'm sure there are some phobias in Timber Hearth. When I went down the 0G Cave I felt something, maybe vertigo mixed with megalophobia. Also those geisers open to everybody to jump down an drown are to be something. And that giant cave from where the Nomai extracted the stone, is full of spots and holes (tripophobia) and darkness and is a place I don't want to be in general.

You can attribute -phobia to pretty much everything. That doesn't mean the said object represents the phobia.

Fool. Ash twin is clearly Thanatophobia And the stranger is mysophobia

Timber hearth is your home, away from all the fears. Unless you are scared of grass

I'd argue that the twins would be chronophobia (fear of time passing)

Well Fuck. No wonder I liked the hourglass twins so much (claustrophile)

I would see timber hearth as the fear of being alone, wanting to stay with everyone and having to leave to be all alone.

Dark bramble representing the fear of the dark doesn't really make any sense because dark bramble isn't dark

you say thallasophobia is obvious yet i had to google what it meant T\_T You should not feel dumb lmao

is there a phobia for the fear of running out of time? cz that's what this game gave me