Chillquarium
BANGER · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 19.4h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($3.59)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.99)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Chillquarium is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Buy fish and raise them in real time, then sell them to turn a profit! Customize your aquarium as you progress from a simple starter tank to your dream setup by filling your collection with rare exotic fish and ultra-rare color variants!
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 28 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cornerpond ($2.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Bugtopia ($4.19, scores 73).
$14.73 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $5.99.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. That is fewer 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, 2,267 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 659 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
19.4 hours to finish it, 79 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% start to 5% 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
166 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Chillquarium is the gaming equivalent of putting your brain in airplane mode. There are no bosses trying to kill you. No teammates screaming at you. No ranked mode. No giant dinosaur eating your hard-earned belongings. There are just fish. You buy fish. You watch fish. You make money. You buy more fish. That's basically the entire game, and somehow I've spent way more time doing this than I would like to admit. The...
A very easy and enjoyable game. I had this on the background of my computer throughout lecture in college, and I thought the progression was fair. A lot of silly little fish designs that are very nice to look at. The only thing I would want from this is more freedom with designing the interiors of the tanks.
Very nice chill game. Fishes are pretty, background music is cute enough and the hunt for rainbow fishes is exactly as it should be. One of the rarest pulls you got so collecting all of them is actually an achievement! Worth getting especially when it's on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chillquarium scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2276930/chillquariumReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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