Chillquarium

mi ha cambiato la vita...

Collect fish, make money, have fun

I tried so hard do like this game. After playing the demo I was like "meh" and forgot about it. Then it was part of a bundle and I installed it again. Turned it on multiple times over the past weeks just to realize my first meh should have been enough. - The UI is very bad. You have a huge box that shows four fish at a time and I even had their long names make them reach over the edge of the screen. This way I was not able to click the lock button on their right side anymore. At least let us change the size of the grid and fishes shown at once! - You need to manually check all your fishes over and over again and lock every fish by hand to make sure you are not selling something you don't want to. There is no search bar, you can only sort your fishes after some criteria like rarity and age. No obvious "auto sell adult fish below certain rarity" option. - Your aquariums will stay barren for a long time. You can't decorate them, because that would be way too expensive and you need the money to unlock higher value fishes. - No info about the fish, just their names. - The only mechanic in the game you can use to progress faster is to feed them. For that, you have to position your mouse on the screen with a right click and let the fish munch on the food you drop. It's boring af. On top of that, all the adult fish will eat food as well - so they take away xp from baby fish and the whole grow up process takes even longer. - Progression is extremely slow. After 16 hours I unlocked the third aquarium and I can't even populate it with saltwater fish, because only one batch of them costs more than my daily passive income. You would have space for 60 fish and it takes me more than a day to put just 4 inside the tank. - The grind starts from day 1 and doesn't get better. It starts slow and stays slow. You really need patience to continue playing this game. - Drop rates for the rarest fish are extremely low. After all these hours, I didn't drop a single rainbow coloured fish and only six golden fish in total. You don't have enough space to justify these low drop rates. - You can't turn the music off when game is not in focus. So I really liked the art of the fishes and collecting them at first, but the super boring and slow grind is simply not worth my time as you can't even run the game properly in the background.