Aquarist on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A relaxing sandbox casual simulation game where you perform various, even strange, aquarium-related tasks on very diverse levels. As an Aquarist you must create and manage a home to amazing fish🐟, sea turtles🐢, sharks🦈, octopuses🐙, and more🐬. Aquarium is their world and life. Make it worth...

Aquarist is a indie, sandbox and simulation game developed by FreeMind S.A. and published by FreeMind S.A. and PlayWay S.A..
Released on March 29th 2024 is available only on Windows 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 581 reviews of which 499 were positive and 82 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 15.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 750
  • Storage: 10 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible

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Jan. 2025
I love this game. I was, and still am, looking for ocean related or aquatic based games, as I love the ocean and think its so beautiful but its hard to find the right game for me. I've been playing Aquarist nonstop for the last couple of weeks. Its pulls you right in, and does a good job at making you feel like your in the game actually taking care of these fish with how detailed it is. I do wish it was a little less buggy. I only say a little because for the bigger fish, they don't really swim around, they kind of just stay in place but honestly that's my only issue with it. I can't wait to see how or if this game expands in the future (and there are already so many fun things to do).
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Nov. 2024
This game does a great job of realistically simulating aquascaping. You have to carefully balance variables like pH, oxygen levels, temperature, and nitrates to create a healthy environment for your fish and plants. It’s challenging in a rewarding way, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about aquascaping without the cost and commitment of a real setup. I do also recommend the DLC offered in the game, as you get much more opportunities to showcase your aquariums and even open a nice shop.
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Sept. 2024
This is my review for "Aquarist". Aquarist is a singleplayer game where you play as a, well Aquarist and take care of different animals such as: fish, Turtles, and mutant alien fish as well. This game is very enjoyable and has a total of five maps/ stages to play on and they are: Basement, exhibition, Oceanarium, and Aquatic Museum. (Order of which is unlocked). There are many decorations to place in your aquariums and play with. There are also many fish to get all with their own environmental needs as well as plants. This game is very fun and I do indeed recommend it. I have completed the game and have gotten almost every achievement available and every creature available. Thank you for reading this review and I hope it is helpful.
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Aug. 2024
It's a good, relaxing game that should be taken slowly. Especially the jobs, at the start they give them out like candy- but once the jobs are finished there's no more and as far as i know, no way to replay them. if you're someone who has any interest in fish outside of cooking them, then i recommend this game. Especially for the free-roam underwater sections. My only real issues are some models- especially some of the corals, look really bad up close. But the fish themselves are fine, though they can't be interacted with outside of feeding, naming and checking their health. There are also collision issues with the fish sometimes popping out of the glass.
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April 2024
Very, very good balance between quests and relaxing gameplay. Give us more of everything please :) Some recommendations: Setting up aquariums can feel somewhat of a chore, maybe implement a process where you can set up all of the steps with just having the items in inventory as opposed to pulling the item out using, backing out, etc. Bone and algae mechanic is frustrating.
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Aquarist
8.1
499
82
Online players
16
Developer
FreeMind S.A.
Publisher
FreeMind S.A., PlayWay S.A.
Release 29 Mar 2024
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