Fish Simulator: Aquarium Manager

I hope the game will expand with DLC's and achievements. Very nice simulator from aquarium fish.

Still has great potential, but needs a few fixes to be playable long-term. As another review mentioned, there's no tutorials for some basic things like cleaning the tank (though it's easy enough to find if you spent a minute or two poking around the menu options), the tutorial was a little bit buggy when I started a new game as I didn't like how poorly I started off the first time around. The fish are a bit slow to eat, they'll get the food icon over their heads indicating they are hungry despite there being food in the tank. The biggest issue for me is the unlock tree - it first pulls up black for me, then when I reload it... it gets stuck scrolling to the right. In order to read the nodes to unlock them you have to hover your mouse over them, which is nearly impossible if the screen is moving quickly. It takes me a while to actually make out the full sentence. I didn't play long because of this, but it seems tough to balance out money at first. I'm sure there's more nodes that help increase your income like the first one, but I'm not about to spend 1 minute per node trying to decipher the entire massive tree. Fish need to eat incredibly often for the cost of food, so even with just the one starter fish you're barely breaking even to just keep it alive. Which is easily avoided by putting it in the vault and speeding up the clock; time passes, you having nothing to feed, and you get paid daily. But what's the fun in that? And yes, this is a game that involves lots of waiting, just like keeping and breeding fish in real life and most other aquarium games.

The Good: The game has a variety of fish types and some mechanics that require you to manage them. If you like grindy games and micromanaging, you might like this one. Completionist type players like myself will be addicted to unlocking the skill grid and there's at least some variety in there as some nodes are particularly valuable. The game is mostly bug free, with a couple of notable exceptions at the bottom of my review. The Bad: The game feels like its ambitions were much higher but then it was abandoned. It's been almost a full year since the last update, so at the moment I assume DuoBonza is done adding content. However, the tank decorations are very minimal (only 4) and only one of those has a functional purpose to my knowledge. There are sections of the skill grid that look like they were intended to unlock more fish but they are not accessible. I think they just jumped ship before it reached their vision. Maybe the sales were subpar, I don't know. Finally, the game will not keep you occupied more than a few days of hard grind. You can complete all unlocks with two or three days of dedication. The Steam achievements help, but you'll unlock all of those in a few more days. The Ugly: The game hijacks your monitor and will remain on top of other windows. If you alt+tab to another application, the game stays on top of it anyway. You have to close the game to use anything else on that monitor. There were also some other small bugs, mostly cosmetic. For example, opening the skill tree when a sold fish popup is on the screen permanently freezes the sold fish popup there until you close and relaunch the client. The tank info window doesn't update when things change, you have to manually close and re-open it. All in all, I cannot strongly recommend this game, nor can I say it's not worth your money. If three to six days of grindy gameplay to earn achievements and much sounds worth the price tag, go for it. I'd have a much more positive review of the game if it was still being developed, even as paid DLC.

As other comments have stated this isnt as much of a simulator. Ive loved fish/village simulators on phones etc. (usually stop playing once i hit the paywall) before, but this is much more of an idle game/clicker. Theres too much waiting around to unlock new fish. theres little immersion beyond the fish themselves and little explanation. Still cant figure out how to keep the one availible plant healthy. Must feed the fish every 3 seconds. If you want a couple of cute fishies swimming around on your computer in idle mode as a wallpaper I think you'll be pretty happy, however.

You kind of just sit there and wait for stuff to happen. It's an idle game that you have to pay attention too or your fish die. I thought there would at least be a few more options for customising the tank or just anything. I might play it again when I'm sick or something but I personally find it rather boring.

Игра суперская, очень затянула. Но вопрос, почему так мало растений?? Никак нельзя сделать красивее аквариум. Однотипные водоросли смотрятся не очень. 1/3 игры уже прошел без водорослей с пустым аквариумом. Нужна механика настроения рыб, если нет растений то оно плохое - что влияет на размножение например. Мало корма, мало рыб, мало декораций опять же. Можно добавить ручную чистку, для которой нужно будет купить что-нибудь в магазине и в следствии чего чистка станет дешевле. Игра хорошая, но многих деталей не хватает, займитесь!!

Well , i would say the game is good! For the money it is worth it , the diversity in plants lack but oh boy is this game challenging! Definetley give it a try.

Easy to use, and fun to play! Access to lots of popular aquarium fish.

Imagine, if you will, fish. Now imagine them being fully simulated. Now imagine no more, for Fish Simulator has made your imagination a reality.

Although a very simple game, Fish Simulator: Aquarium Manager is certainly an interesting play, and pretty much get what you expect. i played it through some of the pre-release and certainly enjoyed it. they have a discord to chat and discuss bugs suggestions etc and always reply which is ofcause a good thing. cheap and interesting game. defo recommend this even if you only play it a bit at a time.