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Games Like Aquatico

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Base Building, Simulation.

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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.

Reviews: Mixed — 67% — of 858 reviews
Released: 2023-01-12
Developer: Digital Reef Games
Publisher: Overseer Games
Genres: Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.5 hrs
Mean playtime: 8.0 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 83%

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  2. #2 Surviving the Abyss
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    Windows
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    96% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
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    95% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    94% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

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    94% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
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    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    Windows
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    92% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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  11. #11 The Wandering Village
    89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    91% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    76% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
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    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    Windows
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  34. #34 Flooded
    77% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
    Dev: Artificial Disasters
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

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    74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
    Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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    69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
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    Windows
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  39. #39 Captain of Industry
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
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    Windows
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    73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows
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    73% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
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    Windows
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    75% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
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    69% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
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    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

    Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 6.4%

  53. #53 Anno 2205™
    71% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,263 reviews2015
    Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
    Windows
    Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

    Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Economy 11.9%, Futuristic 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 6.3%

  54. #54 Ancient Cities
    69% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
    Dev: Uncasual Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

    Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Economy 9.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Management 7.5%

  55. #55 Frostpunk 2
    66% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

    Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Colony Sim 8.4%

  56. #56 SteamWorld Build
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
    Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Economy 17.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.7%

  57. #57 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
    Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.7%

  58. #58 After the Collapse
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Management 8.8%

  59. #59 Space Haven
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

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