▼ Not recommended
0 hrs
Tl;dr: If you seek a productivity companion with good tunes and white noise options, you can pick Fantasy Aquarium, but you should be aware that it has no active gameplay options at all.
The "productivity companion" part of this game is great regarding the tunes and white noise profiles that you can toggle on and off to create a pleasant working environment. Besides the productivity-related features, the game offers almost no gameplay options, and I lost my interest in the game in less than 10 minutes due to this.
As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there are a few tunes you can select from to listen to, and I can say that they are good enough to create a productive, calm studying environment. There are a few white noise profiles as well, and they were even better than expected. Unfortunately, these features are the only good things I encountered in Fantasy Aquarium.
There is no interaction with the fish, even at the slightest, and they move like pinballs without any souls. There are no feeding features, you can't learn about them, you can't play with them, nothing! I understand that this is an idle game, but even mediocre idle games let the player play the game actively to get some progression advantage. In Fantasy Aquarium, it took me just 5 minutes to get left out with nothing to do with the game. I would expect active feeding/petting elements to progress faster in terms of fish acquisition.
The audio part of the game is great, but the art looks uninspired. Fish reflect their real counterparts, but the overall scenery does not appeal to me. I would expect to see the unique details of the fish in more detail. Although this is not a problem with larger fish, small fish leak details since they are drawn on a smaller canvas.
The UX is terrible. I was so frustrated by how the menus worked, and it leaked common sense. You can't even focus on one fish after another. First, you must drop focus, and then you can focus on another fish again to view its stats. It looks like no attention is paid in terms of user experience in Fantasy Aquarium; it is too frustrating to navigate through the menu items.
The last point I'd like to address is the optimization. How can a simple all-pixel game use over 10% of my CPU or GPU at times and make my fans activate? I would expect the game to be much more optimized so that I can open it on the side as a screen saver. It is not to mention that you can't even open the game in a different resolution than 1920x1080 or 1280x720, which is a deal breaker for me.
In the end, I would only suggest you get Fantasy Aquarium if you are looking for an aquarium game that acts like a study companion. If you are after active gameplay, this is not the game for you since it has almost no active elements to progress in the game other than trying your luck to get rare fish.
The "productivity companion" part of this game is great regarding the tunes and white noise profiles that you can toggle on and off to create a pleasant working environment. Besides the productivity-related features, the game offers almost no gameplay options, and I lost my interest in the game in less than 10 minutes due to this.
As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there are a few tunes you can select from to listen to, and I can say that they are good enough to create a productive, calm studying environment. There are a few white noise profiles as well, and they were even better than expected. Unfortunately, these features are the only good things I encountered in Fantasy Aquarium.
There is no interaction with the fish, even at the slightest, and they move like pinballs without any souls. There are no feeding features, you can't learn about them, you can't play with them, nothing! I understand that this is an idle game, but even mediocre idle games let the player play the game actively to get some progression advantage. In Fantasy Aquarium, it took me just 5 minutes to get left out with nothing to do with the game. I would expect active feeding/petting elements to progress faster in terms of fish acquisition.
The audio part of the game is great, but the art looks uninspired. Fish reflect their real counterparts, but the overall scenery does not appeal to me. I would expect to see the unique details of the fish in more detail. Although this is not a problem with larger fish, small fish leak details since they are drawn on a smaller canvas.
The UX is terrible. I was so frustrated by how the menus worked, and it leaked common sense. You can't even focus on one fish after another. First, you must drop focus, and then you can focus on another fish again to view its stats. It looks like no attention is paid in terms of user experience in Fantasy Aquarium; it is too frustrating to navigate through the menu items.
The last point I'd like to address is the optimization. How can a simple all-pixel game use over 10% of my CPU or GPU at times and make my fans activate? I would expect the game to be much more optimized so that I can open it on the side as a screen saver. It is not to mention that you can't even open the game in a different resolution than 1920x1080 or 1280x720, which is a deal breaker for me.
In the end, I would only suggest you get Fantasy Aquarium if you are looking for an aquarium game that acts like a study companion. If you are after active gameplay, this is not the game for you since it has almost no active elements to progress in the game other than trying your luck to get rare fish.
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