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Build beautiful aquariums, care for exotic marine life, complete creative customer jobs, and grow your own aquarium business into a world-class oceanarium in this relaxing sandbox simulation🪸🐟
Aquarist is a simulation, sandbox and management game
developed by FreeMind S.A.
and published by FreeMind S.A. and PlayWay S.A..
Released on March 29th 2024 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 27 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
It has received 951 reviews of which 770 were positive and 181 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 15.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.48€ on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Aquarist into these genres:
Simulation
Sandbox
Management
Fishing
Indie
Casual
Education
Relaxing
Family Friendly
First-Person
Singleplayer
Creature Collector
Puzzle
Building
Underwater
Immersive Sim
Idler
Life Sim
Resource Management
Farming Sim
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Aquarist:
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Italian | |||
| Korean | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Russian | |||
| Thai | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Portuguese - Portugal | |||
| Polish | |||
| Danish | |||
| Dutch | |||
| Finnish | |||
| Norwegian | |||
| Swedish | |||
| Hungarian | |||
| Czech | |||
| Romanian | |||
| Turkish | |||
| Bulgarian | |||
| Greek | |||
| Arabic | |||
| Ukrainian | |||
| Vietnamese |
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 750
- Storage: 23 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
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I love this game, but there are a couple things about it i cant get over, you have to do everything.. it sucks when cleaning.. should be a faster way to do anything.., cant skip tutorials and i had a restart because my computer sucks and i dont even want too! so much work.. just for it to delete the save... painful.. restarting isnt fun at all! it should be in my opinion.... make it so everything can be skipped or at least the beginning.. whats the point when you make us learn everything again anyways..
BUYYY ITTT!!!!!! LOVE THIS GAME honestly if you like aquariums irl then youll love this game for pc. this by far is one of my fav games of all time i always reccomened it to all my pc friends. the design is beautiful the decor is beautiful THE FISH THE FREAKING FISH IN THIS GAME ARE AMAZING SO BEAUTIFUL THE WAY EACH ONE IS DEISNED DIFFERENTLY HONESTLY THE devs and there team should give themselfs a pat on the back cause this is the only fish game that i found on steam that is the best fish game there is them game itself is beautiful i like that we get to decorate different aquariums and put pretty fish in but also theres depth like you gotta see which ones have the right ph and temp you also have to look out if there saltwater or normal water theres also where you have to watch to make surre they are not carnivore an eat each ohter i find it to be relaxing and fun i always make my younger silbings or husband come look att my new creations lolz
My genuine only complaint about this game is that, during the store location, I swear customers walk in and complain just to complain. It's infuriating when the MOMENT they step inside, they mention that something is missing. Like they're somehow prophetic. Worse is when another customer *just* pulled the last one off the shelf... It's not missing, just not restocked. Beyond that, I am enjoying a game that takes fish needs into a more realistic variable. You have to consider what you're housing together, down to aggression and even heat preferences. It has a lovely mix of realistic fish vs. fantasy fish and I look forward to the game progressing!
Just finished the main campaign of the game. I have some thoughts. I'm going to start by saying I mostly enjoyed the game. It was fun figuring out the different fish and their aquariums. That said, there were a few things that annoyed me. First, the more minor one, there are constant grammatical errors throughout the game. The types of errors make me guess that the developers aren't native English speakers, which is perfectly fine, but having someone look it over would have been good. I would be happy to do that, honestly. My more major gripe with the game is the CONSTANT plugging of other games. Most of the side quests for clients were a plug for another game, and have you mostly doing things entirely unrelated to aquariums. One had you both build a tiki bar and dock from scratch and fix someone's yacht, and had you then build an aquarium. It felt on several of these side quests for clients like the focus was less on the aquariums and more on getting you to play one of this studio's many other simulator games. There is a reason this game is in 114 bundles on steam, and its almost all their own games, many of which have mixed or mostly negative reviews. If a list of other featured games from them was a board you could interact with once in game, I wouldn't mind as much. They had a puzzle in one location that gave you a gift and mentioned another game, that was fine. You get occasional gifts from other games, and again, that's fine. However, having major portions of quests be plugs for other games that make you spend 30 minutes building a tiki bar and dock in a game where you make and decorate aquariums is tacky, to say the least. The other part I didn't like was finding fossils. Later in the game you unlock a museum where you have a few large aquariums and some large fossils, a blue whale and three aquatic dinosaur fossils. However, you don't just buy the fossils, you go on expeditions to find them. These were incredibly tedious. The game gives you a fossil radar, but it updates so slowly it rarely picked up a fossil before I got to it or even passed it. There are probably around one hundred fossils to find, and finding the last ones was incredibly tedious. It is tied into expeditions where you go to an underwater area and photograph fish, corals, and decorations to unlock them for your tanks, which was less tedious but still annoying. The game did give you arrows to help you find the last of those, which really helped, but it didn't do that for the fossils, and I wish it had. The mechanics of the game worked well enough, I had a few bugs here and there, warnings for plants about to die in my tanks when I had no tanks in that location, placement bugs where it would go red and not let me place something saying its touching the glass when its not anywhere close to the walls or floor, and things like that, but they were very minor and didn't detract from the game experience. The last thing I will say is that I found maintaining the basement shop once you had other locations to be a bit much. I ended up selling all my tanks there and only selling items from the shelves once I had bought two other locations just to make it so I wasn't spending hours of each day replacing the decorations and plants to make the fish happy. Once you place the fish, you get a bar to see the range each is happy with for the amount of plants and decor, but it doesn't give concrete numbers, so you're doing guesswork to try to see how many will make the Discus fish happy without making another fish type in the tank sad because there are too many. Anyways, I did enjoy the game, and will likely continue playing it, but those things have definitely bugged me throughout the game.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Aquarist is currently priced at 15.79€ on Steam.
No, Aquarist is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 15.79€ on Steam.
Yes, Aquarist received 770 positive votes out of a total of 951 achieving a rating of 7.70.
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Aquarist was developed by FreeMind S.A. and published by FreeMind S.A. and PlayWay S.A..
Yes, Aquarist is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Aquarist is not playable on MacOS.
No, Aquarist is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Aquarist is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Aquarist is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Aquarist does not support VR.
Aquarist is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 6 DLCs available for Aquarist. Explore additional content available for Aquarist on Steam.
No, Aquarist does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Aquarist does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Aquarist is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Aquarist.
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Online players
4
Developer
FreeMind S.A.
Publisher
FreeMind S.A.,
PlayWay S.A.
Release
29 Mar 2024
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