Peacequarium

Not for me.

Fantastic idle game. Pretty good, I hope y'all add a Coelecanth fish to it at some point -- especially considering how remarkable and ancient they are. I'd also hope for some crustaceans like lobsters and hermits in the near future but this is nice so far.

this game is neither aesthetically pleasing enough nor interesting enough mechanically for my personal tastes

Good chill game. Highly recommend

Peacequarium is exactly what it advertises itself to be; a chill fish collection game. However, in my personal opinion, it needs a balance pass before I'd consider continuing to play it. Here's my notes I took while playing the game: [b]Possible Bugs:[/b] [*] FX Volume, Music Volume and Water Transparency sliders are all flipped horizontally in the Settings menu. [*] Insane lag/stutter/frame drops when game autosaves or applies backgrounds. [*] Water transparency slider does not work as intended; from left to right it only goes from pure black to a dull flat colour regardless of whatever colour palette has been selected. [*] In-game progression experiences a delay in registering steam achievements at approproate times e.g. despite hitting 100 worms, achievement did not trigger until I saved and quit the game. [*] Saving and quitting the game causes the worm growth rate to fall for some reason. [/list] [b]Personal Mechanical Feedback:[/b] [*] Game needs a report bug button. [*] I wouldn't mind it if an option to lock specific fish species was added. [*] Needs to have a much clearer and transparent explanation as to how the fish traits are actually Steam items and are consumed upon attaching them to fish. I would also suggest having a way of refunding fish traits back to the player should a fish with a trait attached be sold. [*] UI could improve. The game already establishes 100 fish per aquarium as the max and thus, does not need to be displayed as 100/100. More aquariums beyond four could fit into the UI if the buttons for them were moved to the bottom of the screen that could be scrolled through from side to side. Aquarium tabs could either be labelled as Aquarium Number/Fish Count e.g. 1/30, 2/50, 3/100 etc or simply colour coded. [*] Remove buying legendary fish with worms. Button is pointless once player is able to obtain all legendary fish via buying Legends packs. [*] Game DOES NOT EXPLAIN that having more worms in stock is what increases worm growth rate. Having said that, the baseline growth rate should at least begin at 1.00. Having it begin at 0.0X is ridiculous for such an integral mechanic and feels lacking in terms of player agency. The achievements involving collecting a THOUSAND of each buff feel completely unattainable for me. Worm buff is sorely needed as it would help make these achievements feel more within reach. Upgrades in general need a consistency/balance pass. That nice feeling of progress and Number-Go-Up-ness falls off dramatically after you surpass a trillion. Again, increases of 0.0X do not need to exist in a game like this. It is an egregiously small amount for how expensive each incremental upgrade is. I suggest considering adding duration upgrades for all the buffs. At its current state, it feels overwhelming to continue playing otherwise. [/list] In conclusion, I would still reccomend playing Peacequarium if you just wanna relax and watch cute fishies swim across your screen while you're doing other things. Perhaps my frustration is unwarranted and you will have more patience than I. But until something changes, I feel no desire to pursue my missing achievements. I do not intend on dropping 200 hours on this game just to get them.

Whilst not for everyone! I do love this game. It's fun to have idle-ing on your screen when you go out or leave it idle overnight or while you're in class. It's like an interactive screensaver. All the fish have clearly been drawn by hand which, as a digital artist I really appreciate and love! Maybe varying some of the quests would be great, but this can run probably on a literal brick so if you're not sure? You'll be fine! As of this review I'm on my journey to try and get to 100 achievements and I'm on 93... getting there slowly!! <3

Its just a chill game. Its kinda like an interactive screensaver.