Aquarium Designer
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Windows only.
Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 57 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Megaquarium ($24.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11).
Of the 464 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 659 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 375 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
2.2 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
77% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have put 3 hours into this game i am a life long aquarium builder. I can not currently have one. This scratches the itch. highly recommend it is chill fun.
game so good i finish doing water changes on my irl aquariums and then boot up this game to take care of my virtual aquariums
You can't use the DLC's together. Each DLC is like its own separate game. I wanted to use items from both the Japan DLC and the items from the Sealife DLC and combine them into one tank, but you can't even do that!! LAME!! ALSO...you get jobs that require specific items that you don't have unlocked yet. Why give me a job that I cant complete until way later in the game?! There's been many jobs just sitting...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Aquarium Designer scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1339000/aquarium-designerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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