What's it like to build and manage a sprawling city at the bottom of the sea in Aquatico? Find out in our review:
Imagine looking out over the skyline of a bustling city and instead of seeing a flock of birds or a passenger jet, you see a pod of dolphins or a gliding submarine. This is Aquatico, where you're building a city on the ocean floor after an asteroid strike has rendered the surface world uninhabitable. Instead of roads, you'll build pipelines, instead of city buses you'll have submarines, and your farms will grow oysters and seaweed instead of wheat and pumpkins.
Turbines generate electricity from the strong ocean currents, and once an oxygen generator is built humans join the colony alongside automated, hard-working drones. Swift expansion needs to be tempered with the infrastructure to support it: build too much, too quickly, and angry red exclamation points will appear around the city signifying a deficit of fuel or oxygen.
Another bright point is an expedition system a bit similar to Frostpunk's. After building a special hub, I can stock a submarine with human explorers and supplies and send it offscreen to investigate SOS signals, abandoned colonies, or new sources of food and resources. The missions provide the slimmest strands of narrative threads, usually boiling down to a single choice but it's nice to feel like my city is just one of many different undersea colonies.
For instance, at one point my supply depots were filling up and an in-game tip suggested I build a warehouse, which I first needed to research. But just finding the warehouse on the tech list took a lot of slow scrolling back and forth, and when I did find it I saw that a prerequisite was researching schools. Unlocking schools required I research glass, which required I first unlock quartz… all this to build a warehouse that's just a bigger version of my existing depots.
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