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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...
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
39 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“Very interesting idea for a game, but the execution is pretty rough. Pros: - You get to design aquariums (yay)! Cons: - Extremely hand holdy tutorial. I wanted to make my goldfish's home perfect, before the story moved…”
“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…”
“fun and relaxing”
8 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“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…”
“I absolutely recommend this game. It is one of the more under-rated games here. With so many "justa sim"s out there, it is easy to dismiss, but Aquarist delivers on the promise of what sim games can be. Multiple…”
7 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“developer replies really fast, bugs reported are fixed the very next day, which is incredible. however, the game is frustratingly tedious at times. jobs are also badly designed, you can get stuck on certain small edges,…”
“I quite like this game and I did have it 100% at one point but the addition of so much DLC feels like kind of a cashgrab. The devs are super helpful though and when my save got corrupted they responded very quickly.”
“This is a awesome game, Its very fun and some stuff is a challenge, there is some bugs here and there with placing items in the tanks but that will not stop you and the supermarket stocker is the worst he will not take…”
6 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“Aquarist is a great game for players who enjoy detailed, long‑term gameplay. It teaches you a lot about aquatic life and rewards patience and time investment. I’d recommend it, but specifically to those who want a…”
6 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“This game starts off really basic, after you add the DLCs it is soooo full of adventures! I literally can't stop playing this game! awesome work DEVS!!!!”
“Aquarist is a great game for players who enjoy detailed, long‑term gameplay. It teaches you a lot about aquatic life and rewards patience and time investment. I’d recommend it, but specifically to those who want a…”
15 of the 72 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“developer replies really fast, bugs reported are fixed the very next day, which is incredible. however, the game is frustratingly tedious at times. jobs are also badly designed, you can get stuck on certain small edges,…”
“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…”
“A great game in concept, but it's glitchy and clearly unfinished. The mechanics of placing items in your aquarium are clunky and hard to perfect. I kept accidentally pressing escape while inspecting my aquariums,…”
12 of the 72 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“developer replies really fast, bugs reported are fixed the very next day, which is incredible. however, the game is frustratingly tedious at times. jobs are also badly designed, you can get stuck on certain small edges,…”
“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…”
“Very interesting idea for a game, but the execution is pretty rough. Pros: - You get to design aquariums (yay)! Cons: - Extremely hand holdy tutorial. I wanted to make my goldfish's home perfect, before the story moved…”
4 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“Very interesting idea for a game, but the execution is pretty rough. Pros: - You get to design aquariums (yay)! Cons: - Extremely hand holdy tutorial. I wanted to make my goldfish's home perfect, before the story moved…”
“A great game in concept, but it's glitchy and clearly unfinished. The mechanics of placing items in your aquarium are clunky and hard to perfect. I kept accidentally pressing escape while inspecting my aquariums,…”
“It is bugged and gaming loop is not that good, can be annoying to know which fish to feed, u get just warning symbol don't know which acquarium or fish and hard to check what water, or if you have multiple overlying…”
3 of the 72 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“its a really good game the store DLC is laggy alot i know its the store do to i play the other dlcs and no lag but the store is laggy but most of all its really fun and very good at learning what fish can fit with who…”
3 of the 72 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“A great game in concept, but it's glitchy and clearly unfinished. The mechanics of placing items in your aquarium are clunky and hard to perfect. I kept accidentally pressing escape while inspecting my aquariums,…”
“It is bugged and gaming loop is not that good, can be annoying to know which fish to feed, u get just warning symbol don't know which acquarium or fish and hard to check what water, or if you have multiple overlying…”
“Game is fun. Lots of verity of fish. At the start some of the instructions are unclear- I.E making an item static in the tank- had to look up how to do it. But that is the only issue I have thus far ran into.”
Counted across 72 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“While it's beautiful and kinda a little fun, the main appeal for me when I bought it was the idea of decorating beautiful aquariums (isnt that most peoples appeal?) and the difficulty in placing items in the tank has really turned me off of this game. I've played 4 hours, and I…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
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Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Hotfix 3
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Hotfix 2
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Indie · Sandbox · Simulation · Education · Casual · Job Simulator · Management · Building · Atmospheric · Relaxing · Family Friendly · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · Stereo Sound |
| Languages | English * , Polish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portuga… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 64 |
| Official site | http://www.freemind.games |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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