Idle Aqua Driller tasks you with managing an expanding underwater mining operation, drilling deeper into the ocean floor to extract resources and unlock new areas. You'll hire divers and submarines, purchase equipment upgrades, and develop skills to automate and accelerate production across your station. It's designed for players who enjoy steady progression loops and the satisfaction of watching their operation grow into a sprawling industrial complex.
About this game
Dive into the depths of the ocean in this incremental game about underwater mining! Control drilling rigs, hire divers and submarines, and unlock new layers and resources. Upgrade your decks, speed up mining, and develop your skill tree to turn your station into a powerful underwater complex.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended0 hrs
The game needs balancing, its way too easy. The game is also very laggy (for me at least) The game is short, I completed all achieves in no time. In its current state I do not recommend, but I will update review once there has been updates.
I picked this up for $3.50, but the experience is far too short for that price point. I usually expect at least one hour of gameplay per dollar spent, and this falls well short of that mark. To make matters worse, as soon as you open it up, the system instantly hands you 7 achievements. Getting 1 for booting up is fine, but seven is ridiculous. Achievements should be earned through actual gameplay, not just given away.
There is also a frustrating lack of basic options in the settings menu. You cannot change any graphics settings at all, which seems to cause severe optimization issues. My CPU temperature was hovering between 90 and 95 degrees while playing, which is unreasonable. Additionally, there is no way to toggle off the screen shake effect, which gets annoying very quickly.
The core progression mechanics are tedious. You have to manage 30 different decks, and each one has a max level of 800, but there is no option to buy upgrades in bulk. There is a skill you can unlock that automatically buys the cheapest deck every 2 seconds, but that is painfully slow when you need to buy hundreds of levels.
The defense mechanics feel broken or unfinished. You are supposed to build turrets to defend against sharks and whales, but these threats just stay off screen. I didn't see a single enemy during my entire playtime, and I honestly don't even know if other enemy types exist in the code.
The biggest issue is a bug with the prestige system. When you select upgrades in the skill tree, they automatically apply to your active run, removing the need to restart. I began spending about 3,000 points, but as I bought upgrades, my points started increasing dramatically instead of going down. Because of this, I was able to unlock the entire skill tree in one single run. With broken mechanics like this and a severe lack of polish, I cannot recommend it.
