Aquarist

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 8.68€ on Steam and has a 45% discount.


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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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Dec. 2024
Super fun game for those that like to make aquariums but don't have the money in real life to do it. I recommend this for beginners to do before getting an actual aquarium so they know what to semi expect with there aquarium
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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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March 2024
A reasonable game at a good price, that could become a genuinely good game with some quality of life fixes, and doing something about the building. The basics of the game are fun, and the fish are great, a lot of species and a good mix of fresh and salt water. The realism is little off with needs etc, ie you can only put so many of one type of fish in a tank, which is good, but you can then put as many species of different fish in one tank as long as the other conditions are right for them, which is kinda hilarious, and it teaches some things you should never do when setting up an aquarium, but that's a small gripe, this isnt meant to be megaquarium. There are a few gameplay issues, the game suffers a bit from poor menu layouts (comparing fish is a headache as its basically just 2 big lists), bad object selection (trying to select a stickleback in a tank full of other fish, plants and rocks is almost impossible, which would be less annoying if the game didn't heavily rely on you having to check on all your fish regularly), and tries to put a bit too much busywork into your routine, but these are small fixes that may come in time. The only major issue is that the build mechanics in the side quests (and the side quests in general) are horrendous. I don't want to spend 60 minutes trying to hit the exact spots (that then move so you have to wiggle around to find them again) on wooden planks to build a bar when it should be doable in 2-5 minutes max, the poor hit boxes on the items are truly infiriating. This was after having already run around chopping down trees in a thrown together mini survival game type deal, and before having to struggle with poor swimming controls to chase down fish and collect rocks. The missions can seemingly be skipped technically, but a lot of fish and decorations are locked behind them, so you're kinda forced into playing them. Overall though the game is fun, and so far no game breaking bugs, just a couple of minor sound and graphical issues (a rock going berserk after falling over, and a shark swimming through the air outside of it's tank, being the only truly noticeable ones). At this price it's worth a play, though possibly only just. With those QoL fixes and a rework of the awful building design though, it could be a true gem.
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Aquarist
8.1
499
82
Online players
27
Developer
FreeMind S.A.
Publisher
FreeMind S.A., PlayWay S.A.
Release 29 Mar 2024
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