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Aquatico

Digital Reef Games · Overseer Games · 2023-01-12

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SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 12, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

1
playing now
67%
positive of 871 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Aquatico is an underwater city-building video game released on January 12, 2023, and developed by Digital Reef Games and published by Overseer Games.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 6,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 871 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Fanatical (2025-05-19) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 25 of 38 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$4.992022-07-272026-07-272022-07-27 — best price $99.992023-02-01 — best price $24.992023-03-06 — best price $17.492023-04-28 — best price $16.312023-05-24 — best price $24.992023-06-23 — best price $11.242023-07-21 — best price $11.992023-08-28 — best price $13.992023-10-03 — best price $18.362023-11-21 — best price $12.492024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-02-11 — best price $17.492024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-04-22 — best price $9.992024-05-13 — best price $24.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-07-30 — best price $24.992024-08-17 — best price $24.992024-09-17 — best price $9.992024-11-01 — best price $7.492024-12-09 — best price $9.992025-01-05 — best price $18.362025-02-06 — best price $24.992025-04-01 — best price $19.882025-05-17 — best price $19.882025-07-14 — best price $7.492025-09-02 — best price $18.362025-10-24 — best price $19.882025-12-11 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-27 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
88.4%
earned "Gatherer"
21.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9353%44

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

Sci-fiEconomyBuildingStrategySurvivalColony SimFuturisticManagementOpen WorldUnderwater

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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