Aquaria
Worth it · Short indie · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.63/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 1,537
- Critics
- 82 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Short indie
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.9h
- To 100%
- 23.7h 1.5x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2017
- Sale every
- 126d last June 2019
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 11% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
21% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
10 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 383 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sundered®: Eldritch Edition ($1.99, scores 55).
More about Aquaria
None of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2679 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This was one of the first games I remember spending time with my dad playing. It was fun, simple, and had a feeling to it I had never experienced with games before. I remember wanting to find every recipe, and to explore the whole map. It was my first experience with a metroidvania, and it's one that many years later I think back to fondly. It has its quirks, but to me it's a work of art that has shaped the way I...
2 more reviews
We have here an amazing game. Aquaria is almost 20 years old and until now is a great and beautiful game. If you like metroidvania, that one is a must play! There are so many different areas, secrets and sea life! The sound track... Ah the sound track! I could listen it all day! A had play this game when it was release and in 2019 again. The game just sounds better!
It was good for it's time but going back and playing it now is just kind of frustrating.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL Compatible Graphics Card, 225 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Aquaria scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/24420/aquariaReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.