Aquatico

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Aquatico
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Developer(s) Digital Reef Games
Publisher(s) Overseer Games
Platform(s) Windows
ReleaseJanuary 12, 2023
Genre(s) City-building
Mode(s) Single-player

Aquatico is an underwater city-building video game released on January 12, 2023, and developed by Digital Reef Games and published by Overseer Games.

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Gameplay

The game's gameplay revolves around building a city at the bottom of the ocean. The player places buildings, discovers diverse biomes, gathers resources, checks temperature readings etc. It also includes a research tree to unlock various technologies and buildings such as sushi houses, oxygen retractors and similar. [1]

On April 12, 2023, it released a major update which added more mods, story content and citizen opinions game mechanic. [2]

Reception

The game received mixed reviews upon release. Ken Allsop of PCGamesN described it as Subnautica meets Cities: Skylines . [3] Rock, Paper, Shotgun praised its presentation and visuals, but criticized the gameplay as being too straightforward and uncompelling, as well as lacking in the survival aspect. [4] PC Gamer was similar in its critique, stating that although there are 'charming details and inventive ideas', as well as a deep management system, the city itself never felt convincing, and gave it a score of 68. [5] German GameStar likewise praised its setting, but said it offers too little to compete with other similar games in the genre, giving it 70%. [6]

References

  1. Bellingham, Hope (30 September 2022). "This underwater city builder has you rekindling civilization among the sharks". GamesRadar . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  2. Cryer, Hirun (12 April 2023). "This underwater city builder just added opinions, bringing it one step closer to BioShock's Rapture". GamesRadar . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  3. Allsop, Ken (7 April 2023). "Underwater city builder Aquatico puts humanity's future in your hands". PCGamesN . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  4. Armstrong, Kim (11 January 2023). "Aquatico review: a soothing underwater city builder that neglects the dangers of the deep". Rock, Paper, Shotgun . Gamer Network . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. Livingston, Christopher (12 January 2023). "AQUATICO REVIEW". PC Gamer . Future plc . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  6. marx, Enrico (17 January 2023). "Aquatico im Test: Das Unterwasser-Anno verpasst eine riesige Gelegenheit". GameStar.de . Retrieved 30 May 2023.