Aquatico vs. Surviving the Abyss.

[kycaver]

Two undersea builders come out at the same time. Has anybody here played both of them? Just wondering how they compare. They are both Early access. The reviews are both kinda meh, with a lot a reviews saying that there is a good foundation to the game, but needs more work. I know I am not buying both games, so I guess I will just wait it out and see which one ends up progressing better. Looking at some videos, Aquatico seems to have the edge in visuals.

[LeftPaw]

I have both, I'm a sucker for deep water games.
My problem with Abyss so far is that it's sort of a game of whack a mole. You build to support more people, when you get more people you have to build facility's for those people, wash and repeat until you get successful at cloning. Also it's very EA, not very well optimized and doesn't even support key customization. Also there is no real tutorial so, in most cases you have to turn to you tube . The one thing it has going for it is atmosphere, very spooky.
Aquatico is more a city builder were Abyss is more a survival game.
Which game you might like more is really up to you, all I will say is that I'm thinking of refunding surviving the abyss and just keep a eye on it.

Another thing. The dev's are all over Aquatico, answering nearly every post directed at them. With Abyss, you have silence, I don't trust silent dev's, they have something to hide or have no faith in their own game..

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by 💕𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀🐾:

@LeftPaw,
In ref to your last paragraph.

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Another thing. The dev's are all over Aquatico, answering nearly every post directed at them. With Abyss, you have silence, I don't trust silent dev's, they have something to hide or have no faith in their own game..

Actually Lloyd & Saerenne, started answering questions around the Dinner Hour here in New York City, so I'm assuming that when the game was released, and people started posting, they were probably asleep (depending on which timezone they live in). No different then here. The games representatives have to sleep sometime.:winter2019tiredbulb:

Lloyd's Post History & Saerenne Post History

PS:
Also while the 2 members listed above are the Forum Officers, 2 Dev's also made an appearance: Warjam1945 & Demasiri (Arc CM) [/quote]

Whatever time they went to bed they would still be able to see peoples posts when they got up. BUT, yes they are now starting to make appearances. I think they got the idea, silence isn't going to sell their game.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by 💕𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀🐾:

Well I think that's splitting hairs. The game came out at Noon, my time, and the first post from them was by Dinner. I cut them some slack. Who knows what they were doing? Sleeping? Fixing things for the next update? People just don't have patience today.

This is by far not the first time Officials didn't respond right away on a newly released game. I've been here over 18 years, and have seen this a lot.

Hard to read your response, because you put it in my quote, so it looks all the same.

Yeah you really messed that post up with al the links and PSeses. :)

[Blacksoul]

But they are two different games... Aquatico does not play in the deep sea, but after a meteorite impact under the water level. Released by the Patron developers, Aquatico also uses the same engine but was developed by a different team. It's still reminiscent of Patron underwater - I don't think it's that bad, but it plays too much like other Colony Sims.
STA takes place in the mid-1970s and is more based on the horror film Deep Star Six and Cameron's sci-fi hit The Abyss! The cloning of humans is the main story here - the intro film explains it well. Here the survival aspect is a bit more developed and the danger from deep-sea monsters is much greater and comes into play quite early!
I think both games have their appeal. In its current state, STA looks more like a demo - for just under 20 euros! The Aquatico publishers did better with playtests and a very good demo that included two maps and had everything except base protection and no attack events! The demo gave you a very good impression of what kind of game Aquatice is. STA inspires me too, but as usual, it's not that easy and otherwise it still seems very ... scaled back!

After 5 hours of STA and over 3 hours of Aquatico, where I can easily count the time in the demo at over 10 hours, my conclusion is that both games have their advantages and both games have their disadvantages! Aquatico is very repetitive and you quickly saw everything! As already mentioned, STA is more of a demo.

[LeftPaw]

Okay I tore myself away from my usual games and played Abyss this morning, I have to tell you I fell asleep twice. It's a nice atmospheric game also nice sound effects but there's nothing to do really. I had to leave it and wake myself up with a walk about.

I like games that keep me on my feet, so maybe that one isn't for me. I will be refunding Surviving the boredom, sorry, the abyss.

So my final answer to the ops question is one keeps you awake and the other has you fall asleep.

[StaticWolf]

Yeah, but which one has more content? Like any story? Or just build, build, build, like a mindless person with no reason....I tried the Aquatico demo and all I saw was build and build.

[LeftPaw]

Yeah I can't say for sure with not finishing either but I would imagine Aquatico has the most content and moving parts. Again, I'm not sure. There is the thing that Paradox has a greedy fist in Abyss so most of the content will be held back for DLC.
But what I do know now is which one is the most fun to play.

[StaticWolf]

I just bought Survivng the Abyss. I'll tell you in a few days which has more content. You don't seem to trusteable, or knowledgeable. More like some parrot if ya ask me, lol.

[Daraster]

Originally posted by StaticWolf:

Yeah, but which one has more content? Like any story? Or just build, build, build, like a mindless person with no reason....I tried the Aquatico demo and all I saw was build and build.

Aquatico has no story at all.

Well, that isn't 100% true but the story ends when you start playing, everything is in the little cutscene when you start the game, the game feels fully unrelated to it and there isn't any story after that or any endgame (and I tell you that as someone who took enough time to get all achievements).

[Daraster]

Didn't try Surviving the abyss yet and reluctant after both seeing people talking about Paradox and my experience on Aquatico, I will probably step away from both and wait to see how they both evolve.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by StaticWolf:

Yeah, but which one has more content? Like any story? Or just build, build, build, like a mindless person with no reason....I tried the Aquatico demo and all I saw was build and build.

Yeah it a building game. What did you expect, Pacman?

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by StaticWolf:

I just bought Survivng the Abyss. I'll tell you in a few days which has more content. You don't seem to trusteable, or knowledgeable. More like some parrot if ya ask me, lol.

Go for it oh trustworthy and knowledgeable one. I can't wait for you un-parrot like review.
I won't be able to now as I have refunded Abyss.

[StaticWolf]

lol man you may have been right, but I find both games suck, here's my post in Abyss......

Ready to click on refund
1) Who built these 1995 menus?
2) No movement allowed with mouse? stuck in 1995 huh?
3) How dp you destroy a buildiing?
4) The letters and font in the menus suck

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by StaticWolf:

lol man you may have been right, but I find both games suck, here's my post in Abyss......

Ready to click on refund
1) Who built these 1995 menus?
2) No movement allowed with mouse? stuck in 1995 huh?
3) How dp you destroy a buildiing?
4) The letters and font in the menus suck

Granted, there is a retro feel to both give and take a menu.

[LeftPaw]

I have already said a few times that the more I play Aquatico the more I like it and this is still the case, in fact I love the game at this point. And there is no doubt what so ever that on a personal level I would say Aquatico blows Abyss clean out of the water on all counts.