Aquatico Explained

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.

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 .[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]

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Notes and References

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