- February 15, 2022
- Antonio Vargas
- 7h median play time
Arctico
Platforms
About
"Arctico is an open-world, 2-player co-op game featuring base building, exploration, and collection of resources. Customize your base and equipment, and take care of plants and experiments to upgrade. Discover the island's locations and secrets, and enjoy the exceptional atmosphere, music, and visuals, but be prepared for bugs and grinding."











- Beautiful graphics and calming atmosphere, perfect for relaxation.
- Engaging exploration with cute dogs that players can name and interact with.
- The game has potential for future updates and improvements, with active developer support.
- Lacks depth and content, leading to repetitive gameplay and a sense of aimlessness.
- Numerous bugs and glitches that can disrupt the experience, especially in co-op mode.
- The survival mechanics are minimal, making it feel more like a walking simulator than a survival game.
gameplay
211 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay is characterized as slow-paced and relaxing, appealing to those seeking a meditative experience, but it suffers from numerous bugs and a lack of intuitive mechanics. While the exploration and base-building elements provide some enjoyment, many players find the survival mechanics overly simplistic and the overall gameplay loop repetitive and lacking depth. Despite its charming atmosphere and potential, the game requires significant polishing and quality-of-life improvements to enhance the player experience.
“For the $3 I spent, I got 10 hours of fun and engaging gameplay with a story that had me actually reading the notes you pick up.”
“The world is beautiful and fun to traverse with your pups, the music and sounds are good, and the mechanics are super easy.”
“This is a very relaxing exploration survival game with a good storyline and beautiful, though simple graphics, pleasant music, calm gameplay.”
“The devs really need to hire game testers and see all the aspects that are not intuitive or just straight up annoying or ugly through the gameplay of these testers.”
“The inventory menu is a complete mess and is hard to follow, the tutorial is just some floating text and is hard to keep track of what to do and what the tutorial is saying, the dogs all sync up cause they have the same animation, it looks unnatural, the world is boring and flat, the mining mechanic is just right clicking and waiting, and then poof mineral or fish pops out of nowhere.”
“Eternal winter had so much potential, Arctico feels like the gutted carcass of the original game with a lot of the gameplay mechanics stripped out.”