Aquarist
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 750, 23 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build beautiful aquariums, care for exotic marine life, complete creative customer jobs, and grow your own aquarium business into a world-class oceanarium in this relaxing sandbox simulation.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $6.23. 43 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farmer's Life ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats House Builder ($19.99, scores 46).
Of the 472 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 160 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
69% start to <1% 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
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 14:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I absolutely LOVED Aquarist! I bought all the DLC's when they were on sale, and they were great. I 100%ed the game as well which was hard but not impossible! Highly recommend this game! :)
Really fun for people in the fish-keeping hobby. I have loads of fun building my own tanks, choosing the species that goes in there, and taking care of them. To me it's not about the money. Maybe the true aquarist was the friends we made along the way (there aren't any).
I really, really wish I could give this game a good review because I do love it, but unfortunately I can't in good conscience recommend a game that made me literally spend hours trying to repair my PC after a crash. This game managed to overrun the threads on my GPU and somehow in doing so corrupt my graphics driver. This was not a one off because the same issue occurred every time I attempted to play the game. A...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Aquarist scores 59/100 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/1430760/aquaristReviews 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 24, price as of Oct 1.
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