- Publisher: Overseer Games
- Release Date: Jan 12, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023Aquatico shines with an exciting setting but offers too little in the long run to compete with the big names in the genre.
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Jan 12, 2023The resource management is deep, but the city itself never quite feels like a city.
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Jan 13, 2023Aquatico is a city builder that barely tries to innovate anything, and anything new is immediately overshadowed by how bland and mediocre the rest of it is.
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Jan 2, 2025The biggest mistake in game design is making a player feel totally disinterested on what's going on in front of their eyes - twice as big of a mistake in the actionless genre of city-builders, because unless given a strong incentive to do what needs to be done, it all feels like tedious, boring work. In Aquatico no one will feel as if they are helping a group of people survive the end of the world. You are basically a project manager of the slowest, least demanding project, where almost everything is done without much input on your behalf.
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Jan 11, 2023Maybe Aquatico is more satisfying on higher difficulty levels and maybe campaigns will be introduced in future updates (though I haven’t found anything from the developers indicating that is the case). All I can do, though, is review the game in front of me: it’s pretty but lifeless.