Aquatico

If somebody comes to me with this game's premise I make a stylized "Rimworld under the ocean". You handle a bunch of dudes, your colony is compact and you need to baby sit it and have it grow piece by piece while adventuring out in the unknown. Give it the "welcome abord, captain!" vibe from Subnautica. These guys made a cheap "Surviving Mars" clone. Fair enough! But this game has a very annoying way of pushing my buttons. From the bait that is expeditions (don't bother); to the super frustrating end game missions; and also to the way your colonists are a bunch of millennial snowflakes who need 6 luxury items even if half of them are unemployed and also won't take anybody new in their 8 people mansions. Maybe this is the whole message. Even after the apocalypse we will still be a bunch of annoying whinny bastards. I did finish the game but my Lord these colonists did not deserve to be saved!

Could have been so much better but it was abandoned and then released. It runs ok. Only had it crash once or twice.

Annolike that is simple and enjoyable. I bought this for 7,49€ and i can recommend this for that price.

Overall pretty boring. Game mechanics already seen in so many other games. Sea setting is nice, that's about it.

The game uses ai graphics but does not follow the TOS rules to state so, its actually required by law now doe. i like the game thematically, but i feel transparency is also important, so i wont recommend this game for the ethics alone, the ai generated imagery is pretty obvious in the begining cutscene cause the lines just fade in and out on the artwork as a blur. The voices sound queshtionable 2, im guessing more than 1 or 2 are also ai generated. im getting a refund, i cant support this.

Humanity moved to the bottom of the ocean, and somehow my biggest problems are still demanding neighbors and a struggling framerate. About 6 hours in, I actually really like Aquatico. It scratches that particular resource-management itch where you fix one shortage, accidentally create two more, and suddenly another hour has disappeared. My recommendation comes with a pretty firm condition, though: BUY IT ON SALE. THE GOOD The underwater setting gives the familiar city-building formula some personality. Production and infrastructure on the ocean floor, people living in domes above it, drones moving around keeping things running. It is a cool setup for what is essentially an increasingly complicated spreadsheet with fish. If you enjoy balancing production chains, expanding your resource supply, and figuring out what is holding everything else back, there is a satisfying loop here. Getting things working makes you want to expand, and expanding gives you another problem to solve. That is exactly the kind of nonsense I willingly spend hours doing. The research and upgrade path is generally solid, too. Having new buildings and improvements to work toward gives the early game a good …