Aquatico
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $7.49.
- Length
- 15.1h 30h to 100%
- Value
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 871 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 10 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 41 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cliff Empire ($17.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Surviving the Abyss ($19.99, scores 12).
More about Aquatico
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 13 of the 552 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 421 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Annolike that is simple and enjoyable. I bought this for 7,49€ and i can recommend this for that price.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Aquatico, developed by Digital Reef Games and published by Overseer Games, is a survival city-builder that takes the familiar mechanics of colony management and submerges them beneath the ocean's surface. Set in a future where the planet's surface has become uninhabitable, humanity's last hope lies in constructing thriving settlements on the ocean floor. This premise alone gives Aquatico a distinctive identity...
Overall pretty boring. Game mechanics already seen in so many other games. Sea setting is nice, that's about it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Aquatico scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1812300/aquaticoReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.