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PC FISH: Taskbar Aquarium
Raise, Collect, Trade! Discover rare fish, grow your collection, and build a living aquarium right on your desktop.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Its a fun idea. However, its called "task bar aquarium" and if you actually put it over the task bar and scale it so it fits within the task bar (so as not to interfere with what you're doing) you can no longer click on it. Edit: Making sure it's set to always on top solves that…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“Fishies just swimming, living rent-free on my desktop. Amazing. fun fish fact: Fish cannot see water, they also dont breathe in water, they breathe the oxygen within the water.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“"Oh cool! A little idle toy I can run while I work!" And it has AI generated pixel art fish. And there is no disclosure on the store page. Why does 2026 have to suck so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
PC FISH TGS 2026 Events
PC FISH is heading to Tokyo! To celebrate PC FISH's participation in Tokyo Game Show 2026, we're hosting two special events. #1 Retweet & Repost Giveaway During Tokyo Game Show 2026, retweet or repost
September 11 Update – Quality-of-Life Improvements
New Features and Quality-of-Life Improvements Added UI scaling options for the entire interface. (1x / 1.25x / 1.5x / 2x) Added an “Exclude Seasonal Fish” option to the “Auto-Select” filter in Merge.
PC FISH September 6 Update
We have fixed several issues reported during gameplay. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the game screen and menus could not be selected after disabling “Always on Top” in Settings. Fixed an issue where
Known Issues After the Update & Temporary Solutions
Hello, this is the PC FISH development team. We would like to inform you of several issues reported after the latest update, along with the currently available solutions. 1. Fish Images Appearing as W
PC FISH’s First Season Is Here!
Our First Season Is Here! Our first season is now live in PC FISH: Taskbar Aquarium ! Season 1 introduces five new fish to PC FISH: three limited Seasonal Fish and two new regular fish . Season 1 is l
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Simulation · Idler · Creature Collector · Desktop Companion · Trading · Life Sim · Collectathon · Relaxing · Cute · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Emotional (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Polish |
| Achievements | 31 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 200 MB available space VR Support: Not supported