Aquatico

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

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

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]