AQUATICO - Post Apocalyptic Sandbox Undersea Colony Builder

AQUATICO gameplay with Splattercat! Let's Play Aquatico and check out a game where you'll build a base under the sea and attempt to avoid getting wrecked by the tides and natural disasters.
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[@DarrylCross]

It's a good thing that we had the foresight to ensure there was a healthy supply of plastics on the ocean floor for future generations in their hour of need. :3

[@anonymousguy720]

This is why we release straws, cans, and bags into their natural habitat, the trash island in the ocean

[@Exquatics]

Ahh yass we should be proud of ourselves m8 ;3

[@noodnutt]

Woohoo, first comment. G'day Splat. I have you piloting one of my ships in Star Valor given the developers created a character in your honour. Love what you're doing, keep it up.

[@Pammus_]

Killer whale story has me losing it laughing!

[@DennisRyu]

Kind of ironic to build tons of plastic under the ocean... could just collect it from the surface.

[@dtebel]

Man the Frostpunk clones are really palette swapping hard: "post-apocalyptic colony manager" + "X". I would love to see a colony manager that doesn't start out with "build gathering post." I don't even play video games any more and it's fun watching this channel just for the meta.

[@PvtHopscotch]

Good call on the orca experience, I'm all for having a good time but rolling the dice on the oceans premier apex predator? Hard pass. Won't find me messing with jungle cats and bears either.

[@cobra_overseergames3465]

Thanks so much for test playing our game! 🙂 Soon there will be a Demo Fest on Steam from 03.-10.10. and then all of you can try out this game for yourself and if you like it wishlist it too! 🙂 Feel free to join in on the fun! 🙂

[@matty101yttam]

Meanwhile youtube trying to pass it off as Civ: Beyond Earth, always hated that part of youtube...suggesting it's another game entirely, seems misleading.

[@cobra_overseergames3465]

@@matty101yttam Yeah, we can't influence KZbin, and we don't get its algorithms many times either. KZbin works in mysterious ways... 😁

[@arturvegis2571]

@@matty101yttam Its telling me this is factorio, and with 6000 hours on factorio, I must admit this is not factorio xD

[@nathanvosburgh718]

what does the Map Editor do? i can toggle it on n off but nothing is happening

[@cobra_overseergames3465]

@@nathanvosburgh718 Map Editor will in Full Release be fully documented for anyone that wants to make maps or scenarios, and will be fully operational, meaning tested and UI/UX improved. It can indeed be opened already, but atm we did not "advertise on it" since there might be some stability issues till we're fully done with the game. As the game's in Alpha, we're constantly improving scripts, lightings, models, LODs, assets overall, SFXs, etc. So when done, Editor will be fully polished and ready to roll out for anyone that wants to use it 🙂

[@derekdrake8706]

Imagine having the technology and engineering knowhow to build a colony underwater then filling the dome with 100% oxygen lol

[@Daltem]

Hopefully, they were just using a different contractor

[@GameTimeWhy]

It's what lungs crave.

[@gmfreeman4211]

@@GameTimeWhy "Earth's atmosphere is composed of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent other gases." - National Geographic. Oxygen in too great of a percentage will get you high AF, and then kill you.

[@Dosbomber]

@@GameTimeWhy And fire...

[@felop1187]

@@Dosbomber and organ failure

[@bigteej8366]

That killer whale rant had me in stitches 🤣 this is why Splat is the best.

[@AppleSauceGamingChannel]

All that bad rep because of lazy translations. An Orca is not a Killer-Whale so much as a Whale-Killer, mistranslated from spanish to english. So it's perfectly fine to put your head in the mouth of one of the largest carnivore mammals on the planet 😆

[@theshield2004]

“Bit the kids head off in front of a live studio audience” is a sentence I didn’t know I would hear today, but literally made me laugh out loud...

[@QuinchGaming]

There are "seasonal" currents in the sea of different temperatures but they tend to stick to specific routes (El Nino & La Nina) but the ocean tends to stay a uniform temperature but its more dependant on how deep you are, close to volcanic activity etc which is why life survives better in seas during global catastrophes

[@vforwombat9915]

i was thinking the seasonal currents are not on the sea bed, but much closer to the surface. there are rivers undersea, i don't think those are seasonal.

[@the2ndpete]

In addition, underwater you have uniform pressure and a great source of water to dump your waste heat into. That's kind of a big problem with space colonies...

[@julianfernandezduca2196]

Ñ (sorry)

[@TheNzFox]

@@vforwombat9915 your referring to the thermocline, it creates a layer of 'warm' water that has its own currents due to heating and cooling while not mixing with the more stable deeper water, the depth of it varies from place to place depending on a dozen different factors but normally its around 100-200 meters. If you assume in game you are building within that zone and the meteor messed up the normal Thermohaline circulation (say by hitting the arctic) you could see some quite drastic seasonal temperature changes. Then of course its the fact that all that is irrelevant as its a game and you are building automated buildings in seconds, but its a fun thought experiment as to 'what if'

[@doobzacheria]

Lol, at the exact point in the video when Splat mentions his cat deciding to walk across his keyboard, my cat decided to walk across my keyboard...

[@lordgallo4213]

😂😂😂

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

a glitch in the matrix?

[@vladimirklimov3913]

Exactly at the moment that i decided to read this comment Splat said that his cat decided to walk across his keyboard

[@ziziorens348]

Cat hive mind.

[@libradragon]

It's Cat-synchronicity! 😻

[@peachypietro9980]

Indeed, SCG, ocean waters do change temperature, but I'm pretty sure that colonizing the ocean floor means your equipment can handle the temperatures since they can handle the pressure at that depth

[@brendandor]

You'd still need heating systems though. Pressure resistance does not equal insulation. But tech wise you'd think they'd figure that out.

[@nickgoodnough6262]

They have slightly elevated keyboard overpasses specifically for stopping cats from stepping on keyboards. It's like 4 inches high so you can still type.

[@InvictusByz]

For humans who have been domesticated by their cats. Truly a shameful invention

[@slanew]

Seems like the design of this game could have expanded the pipe system so that you choose what travels along the connectors. So you could have Pipes for all liquids and gases, Wiring for high voltage electricity, People Tubes, and Goods Tubes. The more of them you combine the less resources they individually require, but when any one of the breaks down then it can cause that whole section of connector to go offline until it's fixed (depending on the combo). Something a little extra to add a bit of traffic design to this colony sim.

[@jessietheandroid]

Dawn of Man was their previous title, which came out after Planetbase. They didn't work on Surviving Mars. :)

[@AdamNisenziSpisak]

wish they had just kept working on dawn of man, had such a potential

[@WyrdDarcnyzz]

To be clear, Dawn of Man and Planetbase were made by Madruga Works, whereas Aquatico is developed by Digital Reef Games and published by Overseer Games, who also made Patron.

[@Kristen242008]

Planetbase was actually from the developers that made Dawn of Man (a prehistoric town building game), not Surviving Mars.

[@ezequielblanco8659]

I loved Planetbase, but it didn't have a lot of content. Unfortunately I felt like it was just a proof of concept for them to create Dawn of Man later. That seems like a nicer game, but the sci-fi space theme is way more appealing to me so I was a little dissapointed.

[@Kristen242008]

@@ezequielblanco8659 Dawn of Man is my absolute favorite town building game to date. I love that you can build the town, but it's not SUPER micromanagey. I have 230 hours into Dawn of Man so far lol.

[@FerreusDeus]

Oddly enough Planetbase is my favorite city-builder in spite of never truly being finished. It's that retro aesthetic and the ability to sit INSIDE the habitats. The mechanics feel good too, zapping meteors outta the air and dealing with the landing pads.

[@eom1682]

Reminds me of submarine titans, a very good classic strategy game.

[@PastorwithoutaPulpit]

Let's see we have a bunch of drones that basically keep our colony from turning into an underwater tomb. What they hell would we need batteries for? Oh Splat I do so enjoy your antics and no worries you'll soon learn exactly why you want to be producing batteries...LOL I was able to get an alpha invite simply by requesting it on Steam and I think they're still granting them to people as of Sep 21st. This is a good game with the bones of a Great game, let's hope they bring it across the finish line because as it sits it's fun. The upside is there's so much potential here for future DLC/Content it has a shot at being one of the Greats...

[@lastplace6887]

The first thing I thought about when the game told you this was a post apocalyptic underwater world after a meteor strike is, "Is this a prequel to Soma?"

[@ladyscarlette6289]

Soma is a good game, some of it made me super claustrophobic though.

[@Crimsondk]

That Orca story got real dark real fast xD

[@the2ndpete]

Sea Lord. That's the only title worthy for one leading an underwater humanities last hope base!

[@horrigan495]

I love colony sims... Finaly one that makes some waves into the genre...

[@someguy4384]

Usually these games seem pretty shallow, but this one seems to have some depth.

[@ladyscarlette6289]

You're both top tier😘 congratulations, you're my favourite

[@customink1576]

I've been looking forward to this game since I saw the trailer over a year ago!

[@caret_shell]

26:24 Well that's a turn of phrase I haven't heard before! 😂

[@Diego-fn3ql]

I work recovering ill and injured sea animals, also teaching about them at schools. Once like 40 orcas beached 3km away from my workplace and we spent the next 3 days sending them back to the sea, sadly 3 didn't survive. Funny how everyone who sees dolphins are like "oh so cute! so playful!" and orcas (which are dolphins too, the more you know) are like "scary! killer whales!"... Fun fact, never in the history of humankind has a wild orca killed a human (unlike wild dolphins that have at least 1 confirmed case that i remember)! But there's been many cases of domesticated orcas doing so... so you probably did well not sticking your head in the mouth, i wouldn't take my chances either lol

[@VIP-ry6vv]

Come on man my name is sealord... Who?

[@PastorwithoutaPulpit]

Haha, I see what you did there and I definitely approve it...

[@jackielinde7568]

To answer your question, yes, it's possible for ocean currents to change. Sadly, it's not a seasonal thing. Climate change is driving it with things like cold freshwater melts from the polar ice caps. SciShow has a few videos on the topic.

[@raidermaxx2324]

ahhh it bothers me when devs are kinda careless with common sense regarding this scenarios.. its almost kinda lazy to have $$$ in this game, when it is obvious it would no longer exist or even be needed.. At most maybe some gold traded by right wing Doomsday preppers from the topside, but even so, your underwater colonists would not have a need for gold for any reason i can think of.. soo.. cmon devs get creative

[@Skaatje]

Planet gets destroyed so people have to live under water. First thing they do, is making tons of plastic. This isn't fantasy, this is definitely what we would do! 😂

[@HidForHG]

All the art reminds me of a modern Submarine Titans vibe.

[@jasonpatterson8091]

Enjoyed the video, but it hurt my eyes to see you carefully place the sponge-atorium to get max efficiency then proceed to build over top of almost all of the sponges around it.

[@Andre2160]

There was one undersea RTS a long time ago named Submarine Titans from year 2000 :-) One of the best undersea thing 😁

[@ciupaca9576]

I love when he post colony survival , he has a lot of views because it s really interesting

[@raidermaxx2324]

so you said they send you an alpha "build" but then you linked to a demo download at Steam? oh never mind you just kinda answered it.. so there is no current demo i reckon at the moment.. do people agree?

[@mantisman3396]

ngl kinda hate when you go on colony game binges. I watch all your videos but these ones are like literally all the same and so boring to watch so I always end up turning them off

[@godoftwinkies574]

How did Splap knew of my oxigen adiction? I'm flabbergasted!

[@bladioYT]

Came for the gameplay and first impressions, stayed for the Timmy's Head in a Killer Whale's Mouth story

[@natanoj16]

Fun fact: the amount of recorded deaths from Killer Whales in the wild is literally: Zero

[@jerryjantola]

Are there any hamsters or objectivism in the underwater dystopia?

[@michaelzautner4848]

17 seconds into the video and I'm running to see if I can buy this yet or not.

[@commanderpower79]

I love planetbase. This game looks interesting.

[@advkow]

Ooooh this one looks pretty cool! You don't have a lot of underwater stuff but I always thought it would show some really great different things you have to deal with if you try to colony build under the seas.

[@KingAlpaca]

Looks way too basic and raw at the moment...

[@PaigeRoma]

"Everybody love drone go boop, dude. And if you don't believe me... I would like to direct you to the important documentary called Star Wars" it's sound bites like this that keep me coming back for more indie game playthroughs 💖 you are one hilarious guy with amazing stories

[@admiralhalo7293]

The store base for this game remains me of soma

[@Elvento]

emmm... Anno 2070 still better xD

[@christianpalmer]

Евгений Чешун it is

[@Urko2005]

I like the fact this is under the sea, too many games like this on the land.

[@gemodemplay415]

Unda da sea

[@MildFracas]

They need to get away from that same blue for EVERY SINGLE ICON. It’s jarring and makes differentiating things in the building menus confusing. The menus themselves are not very intuitive either. The UI needs some cleanup basically.

[@williamedwards4151]

Thank you for falling on the obstructed view grenade for us. I was actually gonna purchase an obstructed view ticket to a concert. Now, I've changed my mind. You're just all about taking one for the team, aren't ya! lol. Saint SplatterCat.

[@mluby7828]

From the premise I was really, really excited, but this feels downright uninspired. Like a re-skin of some old landlubber colony builder but they tinted everything blue and added "Sea" to all the names. Seriously, way too much blue in the UI. And that grid view trashes the nice ocean. Devs should ask themselves what's _different_ about underwater buildings/colonies compared to land-based ones, and lean into that difference.

[@greldikvaskupalah2009]

@3:25 Especially with something like Orcas who are highly socialized pack hunters. IIRC they go kinda insane in captivity, and sometimes take it out of handlers and/or audience members.

[@Rudi_Gauss]

Splatter: "Today: AQUATICO" KZbin: "No it isnt. !Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth!"

[@Diree]

Hm, I mean, nobody lives in the "Undercity", right? Everyone lives on top ... and works below, while drones do basically most tasks ...

[@erebostd]

They all look the same…

[@Nyrkes]

Yea, I'm a grown-up but I still lol'd @ 'Sea-Duke' because.. poo humor. Just imagining a turd rolling along the ocean currents. I'll shuddap now >.>

[@christophershumake2640]

Whoops. Surviving Mars was Haemimont. Planetbase was Madruga Works, the company that did Dawn of Man.

[@VIP-ry6vv]

Ooooo Subnautica but also Factorio. Be still my beating heart. Instantly reminds me of the underwater islands in anno 2070. Such an amazing concept.

[@ALoreMiles]

But Splatty, don't judge an animal by its name. There is a frog species called "mountain chicken" that's, obviously, neither a chicken nor does it live on a mountain.

[@brianhuber118]

I saw Star Wars Episodes 4,5,&6 when i was very young when they first came out. So I'm old but i agree with you Star Wars is the best with it's sound affects, for that time period.

[@SonySteals]

My problem with this game, after watching this, is that the map is flat af and doesn’t feel like underwater environment. Think subnautica with living vivid flora / fauna and trenches everywhere.

[@TheYear2525]

I bought Planet Base instead of Surviging Mars xD . Somehow it did appeal more to me. Not sure if I knew at that point that Surviving Mars was actually from the same developers and newer.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

This game looks like *Aven Colony* only underwater instead of on another planet. Aven Colony is a good game though, I own it, so this might be worthwhile as well. There is a free demo of _Aquatico_ currently on Steam.

[@AlphaOfCrimson]

Splatty, I think you said "for all intensive purposes" but it's actually supposed to be, "for all intents and purposes". It's a common misconception.

[@DanyF02]

Omg we can't live on the surface anymore! The environment is ruined! Quickly! Produce more plastics!

[@anthonymonaghan4964]

Navy Seals will only be pulled out of the water during training for Orca ... great white shark? nope back in the water .. Orca .. ok everybody out of the pool lol

[@internet_introvert]

Factorio but underwater is not the same as saying Subnautica combined with X. Factorio is top down and the player is just there to move the camera and build area around. Subnautica is an individual making a base for an individual and relies on the needs of an individual organism to survive. And they build a base. Bad initial description. Still wat to check it out though...

[@chastethompson1086]

Killer whale is a bit of a mistranslation. It's supposed to be whale killer. I mean, they're dolphins. Even with your head in their mouth you'd be fine as long as you aren't one of the trainers that mistreat them. Then they'll murdle you. But outside of that, or if you strongly resemble a seal or a penguin, you'll be fine.

[@samva858]

Man, I just love your style. These videos are life essence for me a.t.m. .

[@teddy5004]

Just a thought but, you mention daisy chaining buildings.... Interesting idea here - what if only specific buildings could be daisy chained? Buildings that are the same like connecting multiple turbines link together to create a bigger turbine facility? Also buildings that cooperate together such as a depot and a gathering facility, or oil and an oil refinery. Doing it that way makes that planning you mentioned extremely important since you can increase the cost of pipelines to make it so you really want to plan ahead so you can save on pipelines. I actually enjoy the fact building pipeline connections are limited, it makes perfect sense as it's kinda weird when you connect pipelines at the ass end of a building where it has no business being, and it also adds the ability to create visual effects such as ports for the building to connect and make it obvious this is where the pipe connects to.

[@wolf06291980]

Planet base is one of my favs!. Was made by Madruga works. Their other game is Dawn of Man. Honestly, Planetbase was their better work,

[@ВаляДавыдова-ъ1з]

It's a good thing that we had the foresight to ensure there was a healthy supply of plastics on the ocean floor for future generations in their hour of need. Imagine having the technology and engineering knowhow to build a colony underwater then filling the dome with 100% oxygen lol!

[@raidermaxx2324]

Actually human climate change is causing the temperature of the ocean to raise by 3 degrees in the next 50 years, so its actually very sensitive to minor changes in the atmosphere .. But you know this, geologist boy

[@marekvyrostko]

Hey, just wanted to leave a comment that your last couple of videos are really helpful to me. My PC died after eight years of service, and I am unable to check out these great demos that Steam is offering in their current sales, and your videos are really helping me to get an idea about these games.

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

Bet your cat is trying to mess up your computer 😁 freezing temperatures currents are a real thing, moving water takes a lot lower temperature to freeze that's why lakes and ponds freeze first before rivers and streams do Totally agree on the arrows I didn't know they were there until SplatterCat pointed it out

[@rockerknight25]

Google says: "There is little temperature change in the deep ocean, as it is far removed from significant heat sources, making it one of the most thermally stable regions on earth. Temperature may fluctuate by less than half a degree per year in the deep ocean." So deep sea winter is not a thing, seems like.

[@BuranStrannik]

looks like generic town builder with "But underwater!" sticker slapped on, somewhat weird decisions someplaces

[@EndoScorpion]

First thing loading into the game and instantly there is a problem. Having colour-coded areas like that is not good. I struggled to tell some of the colours apart, and struggled matching the colours on the key with those on the terrain.

[@gautiergary8604]

The guys who made Planet Base didn't make Surviving Mars, they made Dawn of Man

[@dadnar7615]

Marine world, Giant's games, and Dillon beach...my neck of the woods.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

I remember played Submarine TITAN decades ago during the golden age of rts...

[@winnie8614]

You've built on top of natural sponges. That would cripple sponge production, I guess.

[@brianhuber118]

Orca's are beautiful whales. And they are not as dangerous as people are believed to think.

[@Trivial_Whim]

Surface water is always warmer than deep water due to convection. On the surface, warmer currents run north and south away from the equator. Below, on the ocean floor, colder currents run south and north towards it. These lower cold currents actually operate in reverse of the seasons on the surface, so it would be a cold summer current if you were on the ocean floor.

[@mikeburkart2534]

Oh wow this is Outpost 2: Divided Destiny with slower gameplay and under water supposedly.

[@shadowman21282]

I'm glad I now have the narrative in my head of some whale-handler accidentally kicking an orca's bowl of weeties into the water on their way past and the orca eating a small child in retaliation.

[@estoericaferret]

I'm sorry...did you say Subnautica had a baby with Factorio? You have my attention.

[@phealtalk]

"Deep Sea 9" clever

[@soggyridesmotorizedbicycle6258]

Colony building used to be my favorite genre when I was young, but lately it all feels like the same thing in a different color.

[@chaoticevilspacewitch]

This looks almost exactly like Patron, except with a more interesting underwater setting.

[@tronrutherford2700]

its more like a lack of the sun heating the water but currents can carry warmed water through the ocean, but that amount of water would suck the heat out of such currents so fast that warm water wouldnt travel very far as warm water. I could be wrong though.

[@anubisfox5765]

The guys that made surviving mars are making surviving the aftermath atm this sint their product lol i dont think planetbase was either

[@pothead2450]

your crude oil wasnt fixed your consumption was 160 your production was 144

[@eliz3773]

Booty base kinda sounds like bouillabaisse and since this is an ocean game, it fits extra well. Probably an unintended pun but still lol

[@sixhundredandfive7123]

"ADHD Talk"? I'll watch the entire video until I get distracted.

[@TelperionMt]

So far very Surviving Mars, which is fine … but would be cool to see if the game offers more than this.

[@Nicholas7137]

"Lets lay some pipe." Lmfao, you know exactly what youre saying XD

[@VarenvelDarakus]

this feels like somone played anno 2070 and made own game based just on underwater stuff.