Regardless of rumors unfold by a singing crab, it is not often higher down the place it is wetter. Only a few good issues ever occur below the ocean, particularly in the case of the development of submerged cities—or so I believed till I noticed the gameplay trailer for Aquatico, a survival metropolis builder set on the backside of the ocean. Rapture might have been an unmitigated catastrophe, but it surely seems like issues are going fairly easily right here.
In Aquatico you are not constructing an underwater metropolis simply to dodge taxes like Andrew Ryan, however as a result of the floor world is now an utter wasteland and the remnants of humanity have fled beneath the waves for shelter. Down on the seabed you may assemble manufacturing and industrial buildings, whereas the degrees above are capped with large domes and dedicated to housing, leisure, and different buildings in your residents.
And when you’re developing your undersea metropolis you may even be performing some exploring. Ship out expeditions, Frostpunk-like, within the type of drones and submarines to find new assets. You may also see mechs striding round on the seafloor within the trailer, pipelines stretching between buildings to maneuver assets, and loads of curious sea creatures like sharks and manta rays swimming round your metropolis. There’s additionally just a little coronary heart proven within the UI—your submerged citizenry will should be stored greater than dry, they will should be stored joyful as nicely.
It seems fairly neat and regardless of all horrible and terrifying unhealthy underwater experiences in videogames, I am positively concerned about managing and rising a metropolis below the ocean. Aquatico is not the one underwater metropolis constructing sport we have noticed just lately: Molly wrote about Abyssals, which appeared on The PC Gaming Present, although that metropolis builder takes place on an alien waterworld as an alternative of on the backside of an earthbound ocean.
Aquatico is being developed by Digital Reef Video games along with Overseer Video games, who printed the superb (aboveground) survival metropolis builder Patron. There isn’t any launch date for Aquatico past Q3 2022, however that is not all that far-off. Here is its web page on Steam.
