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Aquarium Designer

Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create an aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various marine wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!

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Steam User 9065STEAMRecommended

Playing through the campaign it's a chill little Aquarium builder, people will email you, and sometimes there's a secret objective that you have to figure out what they want and try to make it the best you can, however if you want to 100% this? the game turns into Fish torture simulator, KILL 300 FISH, KILL 300 PLANTS so I'm sitting here building the perfect fish deathquarium by replacing the water with acid, and superheating it to 35C and I sit here and think about my life as I dump 200+ Angel fish to their inevitable doom, and wonder how an aquarium simulator game that I picked up for 2 bucks has made me fish enemy number 1, truly Women want me, Fish fear me, Mermaids are conflicted

Mar 17, 2026·6h·Verified

Steam User 3828STEAMRecommended

This is great for those of us who love aqua scaping, it's great that a game like this exists.
I do wish it were a little more realistic. They try to go for realism in terms of needing to have the right PH, temps and feed your fish and needing the right stuff to have your tank function but that's as far is it goes. When you try to play it in realistic mode (instead of just leaving it on vacation mode) It ends up feeling more like one of those cheap iOS pet sims for kids. I think the devs couldn't decide between having it be really realistic or just having it be an easy pet sim...there are a lot of details that are realistic (not mixing fish species that don't have the same needs etc) then it just devolves to totally unrealistic.

I would love to see them overhaul this to be a more realistic and interesting experience
starting with not just having the gravel be a texture but actually have it be generated in 3d..this isn't a very graphicly demanding game so actually rendering everything in 3d and not just slapping a texture on it would work fine.
Up the realism, have all the plants need what they actually need, like the correct light spectrum, ferts, c02 etc
present real issues like don't just have to clean the glass here and there but like have it run into real issues that we all deal with irl with our tanks (blooms/ammonia spikes/fish death/etc)
Plants should actually grow and need to be trimmed etc
more options for plants and hardscape
more options for fish and proper fish sizes
etc etc
I'm sure this isn't a hugely popular game and maybe that makes it so the devs don't want to overhaul it and really go hard with making it a top tier experience but why bother to make such a niche game to begin with if you're not going to go full in on making it as good as possible?
As it stands right now, it's a neat sim that's more about just playing around with aqua scaping within a lot of limitations rather than having it be a real sim.
Even if it was only an aqua scaping sim and not an aquarium sim the options are too limited to really allow for you to get super creative with your tank designs...working within the limitations is fun for a few but then it gets kinda old quick.
I would love to see the devs go in hard on this and really give it a proper overhaul I love the idea of this enough where not only did I buy it and spend way too much time with it but I also bought the DLC so obviously I like it but I like it enough that I wish it was was better...it's almost there, it's a great ground work but it's not quite where it should be.