| Aquatico | |
| Developer: | Digital Reef Games |
| Publisher: | Overseer Games |
| Platforms: | Windows |
| Released: | January 12, 2023 |
| Genre: | City-building |
| Modes: | 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.
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]
The game received mixed reviews upon release. Ken Allsop of PCGamesN described it as Subnautica meets .[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]