Star Aquarium lets you maintain a desktop aquarium of growing fish that passively generate currency while you work or browse. Collect stars earned by your underwater pets to unlock new species and gradually transform your screen's bottom into a colorful ocean ecosystem. It's designed as an unobtrusive background presence for anyone seeking low-effort ambient gameplay.
About this game
This is a group of cute little fish swimming leisurely at the bottom of the screen while you work. The fish swim, grow and earn stars for you. Use them to buy other cute little fish until the bottom of the screen becomes a colorful ocean world! Start a leisure desktop fish farming journey!
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended0 hrs
mainly seem to have a visual issue though; the game doesn't seem to like my screen resolution, and there's no way to pick another screen resolution. I have two monitors, so maybe that's the problem. It defaults to the left monitor and i can't see the menu or any option to play.
Full transparency: I was given a free copy of this game! I had reported a bug with the demo version and the dev was kind enough to give me a copy of the full game and helped me troubleshoot the issue I had until it worked. There was a weird thing with the steam cloud save, so not their fault. Despite the language barrier we got it!! The dev is very helpful and kind, and this is their first game. :3 I also offered some translation fixes for English, so hopefully they're correct. I don't speak Chinese so I could only guess, so I hope the translations are accurate enough!
So! Review time: This is a small desktop idler that sits and does very little while you can do other tasks. You keep saltwater fish and slowly level up your profits from them to eventually buy more fish, etc. You can adjust the background decor to your liking (I admittedly didn't touch that, decor isn't really my thing XD;) and adjust how much of the screen you want taken up by the aquarium, as well as the transparency of it. Despite loading up my tank with waaaay too many fish, it really doesn't lag or make my computer mad at all, so it's optimized nicely and shouldn't bother your other programs.
You also have special rarer fish (and higher leveled fish) through gachapon capsules. So you can either try your luck with the gachapon exclusively or buy most fish individually and then come back later on for the rare ones.
There are active events you can purchase as well, which raise the stats and levels of your fish over time, such as a bubble shower. This is more of an end game thing. Not that there's an actual end game! You can just keep the fish blooping around there on your screen forever.
Since my experience started out bugged and I have no idea if the main game is fully fixed for everybody, my main advice is: if you download this and there's a problem, let the dev know so they can help you fix it! Again, single dev, first game. :3 It's a cute game and worth it, in my opinion. I'm glad I tried it. <3 I hope we get more fish to unlock later!
This game is really cute! I grabbed this because I really liked the art style and I'm having a lot of fun so far! I personally haven't had any issues yet. Very nice to have going while I do other things like read or work or watch videos!
