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. [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]

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