Limited Summer Time Hardscape Goodbye for now!
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What a fun summer it has been! While it may be sad to these hardscape pieces go, look out for a more permanent update very, VERY soon!
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NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Warm and Cozy"
From the Dutch gezellig to the favorite sweater you have on now, put that in your aquarium.
Shout out to @smol_succulant for their River Rocks tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "River Rocks"
Rocks are an important part of a river's journey, so what do they do in your tank?
Shout out to @Planche for their Otherworldly tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Otherworldly"
Planets, galaxies, or simply a distant land, show us your otherworldly aquariums!
Shout out to @Luci ><ᐷ, @Jellymish, @Kestrel, @izzy_belle333, @RipplingRiver, and @Nicxt for their Birdhouse tanks from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Birdhouse"
Childhood wood project or five-star bird hotel, you decide.
Shout out to @izzy_belle333 for their Underneath tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Underneath"
The bed? The water's surface? The porch? The human psyche? Show us what's under there!
Shout out to @lucibug1421 for their Shape Without Hardscape tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Shape Without Hardscape"
Creating gorgeous shapes without the hardscape is definitely a challenge! Anyone up for it?
Here's a dev 3000 Gallons tank from last week's challenge we wanted to share!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
Happy Summer to those in the northern hemisphere!
Feel the beach vibes with the Steam Summer Sale! We are bringing back some limited time hardscape for players to enjoy, and these particular pieces are only available during the sale. One of our technical artists made these summer-themed items and put a twist on some of our more generic hardscape!
Good luck finding them all!
Beach Ball (multiple colors!)
Diver Wearing Trunks
Sand Castle (multiple colors!)
Sand Sculptures (lots of colors and options!)
Shell
Skull Wearing Sunglasses (x2!)
Skull Wearing a Beach Hat
Starfish (x2!)
Surfboard (multiple colors!)
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "3000 Gallons"
Yes, you can make a tank that big.
Shout out to @Nicxt for their Toxic Puddle Tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
We've worked with our friends over at Blackbird Interactive to bring you the Mackerel, the scrappy transport ship from Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Salvage abandoned ships and work off your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp in this outer space physics sim! Check out Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam, Xbox, and PS5.
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Toxic Puddle"
Deadly toxins or poisonous paradise anyone?
Here's an upside down dev tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Upside Down"
What is right side up anyways?
Here’s a dev tank that we wanted to share!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Forgotten Corner"
Is it full of dust bunnies, forbidden treasure, or peaceful jewels? Your aquascape will show us!
Shout out to @mowly2 for their Glassy Shore tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Glassy Shore"
The reflective flow of a river or the gentle waves of a beach. How do you see this?
Shout out to @RipplingRiver for their Swamp Shallows tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
You’ve been waiting so patiently for this: we are extremely excited to announce that the CHEMISTRY AND EQUIPMENT update is now live!
This is a significant update–our biggest ever–that’s going to make the tanks in Fish Game feel that much more realistic and closer to real-life aquariums, while also allowing new fishkeepers to learn about the real-world chemistry needs of freshwater aquariums. It’ll give players more opportunities for more tanks and more automation, OR to be highly involved in tank care–whatever their preference may be!
Here’s a breakdown of what to expect.
The game now models real-world chemical interactions that fishkeepers will recognize from IRL aquariums, pulling from over two dozen tank factors.
There’s now true fluid simulation. Flow visibly pushes fish, plants, bubbles, and fish food. It affects water chemistry and ties in with fish needs and preferences. For example, some fish enjoy swimming in higher currents or need more exposure to oxygen, which flow can provide. Flow is also impacted by the shape of the scape in a tank, meaning it can be changed and directed by hardscape and substrate!
All of this will impact the dynamic behaviours in your fish tanks. We can’t wait for you to start exploring the changes and additions!
To round out the update, we’ve also added some fun new UI, so players can see all of the interactions and changes in tank chemistry–something that IRL fishkeepers can only wish they had when tank ecosystems start to crash!
Fish Game is meant to be fun above all else (it’s why we called it Fish Game and not Fish Simulator!). Equipment gives players the ability to have more aquariums with less management! Just like in actual fish keeping, many tanks can become close to self-sustaining. If players aren't ready to dive into the equipment experience, the Settings menu will have an option to freeze the chemistry at its original state.
Brand new chemistry wouldn’t be complete without tools to manage it: we’re introducing equipment in this update as well! Equipment will impact water chemistry, and will allow players to manipulate flow and light fields. With this new equipment, players can have control over the water in their tanks and assistance in keeping their fish fed and happy!
The new UI and visuals give players the ability to see the impact of their equipment and the state of their tank. Players will be able to use this real-world equipment in creative ways to make and maintain their ideal tanks. For example, airstones can be used to create walls of bubbles and circulation pumps can create fun river aquascapes!
Finally, to make hardscape and equipment easier to move around inside your tanks, we’ve implemented new and improved movement tools as well as UNDO and REDO!
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Here’s a non-exhaustive summary of chemistry trackers:
O2
CO2
pH
kH
Temperature
Waste (dead organic matter--including but not limited to fish waste--that is not yet dissolved into ammonia)
Ammonia
Nitrites
Nitrates
Beneficial Bacteria (bacteria that moves waste through the nitrogen cycle: ammonia to nitrites to nitrates)
Water Column Algae
Surface Agitation (resulting in gas exchange)
Flow
Bioload (the total impact of biological activity on water chemistry)
Illnesses
Medicines
And finally: New Equipment
Air Stone
Air Disc
Air Wall
Auto-feeder
Circulation Pump
CO2 Diffuser
CO2 Drop Checker
Canister Filter
Hang on Back Filter
Sponge Filter
Stick Heater
Light Bar
Mounted Light
Thermometer
Floating Rings
Want to have direct influence on future fish to be added? Join the Fish Game Patreon to vote on future DLC (and to get those DLC included as part of your subscription). We also invite you to join the community Discord to share your aquascapes and thoughts!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Swamp Shallows"
Creepy? Luscious? Biotope? Post your best swamp shallows tank.
Shout out to @Harleen Quinzel for their Famous Art tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Famous Art"
Define famous? From the Mona Lisa to the Hankler Fish, you decide in your aquarium.
Shout out to @Kestrel and @CertifiedAuraFarmer for their Waterfalls tanks from last week's challenge!
@Kestrel
@CertifiedAuraFarmer
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Waterfalls"
They come in all shapes, sizes, and geographies. Show us your waterfall tank!
Here's a dev. tank for The MOST Plants tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
Hello everyone!
Players have asked for it, Superfins have tested it, and we have a launch date!
A year in the making, this update is our biggest and best one yet. With simulated Water Chemistry comes a whole new suite of aquarium Equipment. Filters, auto-feeders, lights, and other gear will help you care for your fish friends, so you can have even more tanks!
Don’t want to deal with Water Chemistry but do want to play with the equipment? No worries. You can freeze your Chemistry stats from the settings menu. And to protect your previous profiles from potential ecosystem collapse, all old profiles start with Chemistry stats automatically frozen.
Look out for this update on May 15th, 2026!
Check out these player testing tanks with Equipment made by our Superfins in Discord!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "The MOST Plants"
That says it all. Pack 'em in!
Shout out to @Brass and @RipplingRiver for their Bridging the Gap tank from last week's challenge!
@Brass
@RipplingRiver
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Bridging the Gap"
Mind the gap! How does your aquarium bridge it? Metaphorically? Physically? Metaphysically? Show us what you think!
Shout out to @Rabscuttle for their Meadow Path tank from last week's challenge!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Meadow Path"
Gentle or winding or cobbled or bare or grass or wild or whatever meadow you can picture in your tank!
Shout out to @CosmicMoth and @Peachymxlk for their Liminal Space tanks from last week's challenge!
@CosmicMoth
@Peachymxlk
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
Hello Everyone !
We are so impressed and grateful for ALL of the submissions for the Main Menu Tank contest! You all have proved again that you make the MOST GORGEOUS aquacapes. We were impressed with how diverse and cinematic they all are.
Unfortunately, we can only currently choose 1 tank, so congratulations to @ZCI for their gorgeous scape! Ryan will be reaching out via DM to get a copy of the save file.
Thank you, again, for being passionate about fish, Fish Game, and aquascaping. We are excited to launch this next update for such incredible players!
-Fish Game Team
NEW AQUASCAPING CHALLENGE - "Liminal Space."
The "in-between" space, liminal spaces can be so many things from hallways to the grass between the sidewalk and the road to the space between trees in a forest to the space between now and then. What does that look like in an aquarium?
We took up everyone's time with the Main Menu Tank Contest (more on that next week!), so here is one from the team!
You can find the theme each week in the Fish Game Pause Screen.
Post your submissions to #aquascaping-challenge in our Discord with this week's challenge in the text, and they may appear in the pause menu of the game!
Hello All!
We are excited to be close to o-fish-ally launching the Chemistry and Equipment update you all have so graciously been betta testing. Because this is such a massive update in the quality and quantity of gameplay, we want the main menu to reflect this change, and we want you to be a part of it!
We have long known that players are often MUCH BETTER tank builders than we are, so we have a challenge for you: create a main menu tank video WITH visible equipment! If your tank wins, we will add your name to the credits and shout you out in our marketing materials, so you can show off your incredible work.
Some parameters to consider:
🐟 The Main Menu layout will be the same, so we need those elements to be easily visible and the center pieces of the layout.
🐟 The depth of field is key! Visually, we still want players to understand that this game is detailed and gorgeous.
🐟 Because this is going to be a video, water flow movement would be exciting. Try to include some wigglies to show off this new feature (see video reference below)!
🐟If possible, we would like the kind of diamond layout that is in the original menu video (1st image below). However, we are open to alternatives and would love for you to explore!
Gord created this visually stunning moment BEFORE many of the tools in the game were available (2nd image below), so we’re excited to see your updated tanks. We’re going to include an example below of what an updated tank may look like (3rd image below).
To submit:
🐟 Open the Superfins build on Steam using the instructions from the superfins channel.
🐟 Build the main menu tank of your dreams.
🐟 Use the tab key to put the Main Menu overlay onto your play screen.
🐟 Use a screen capture image or video to grab a sample view of it at the angle you intend for the menu overlay to sit.
🐟 Post the image/video in the aquascaping channel by March 31st, 2026.
🐟 When you post your tank, include the text #mainmenu, so we can easily search for it.
That’s it! We’ll post our favorite tank in the superfins channel the following week, and one of our team members will send a DM to the winner with instructions on how to send us the save file with the winning tank.
We’re excited to see what you create!
-Fish Game Team
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Hi everyone!
We're back with another devlog. Ryan talks about equipment, chemistry/chemistry graphs, and how it's all interconnected. Plus some other QOL changes that we're working on!
Happy Holidays everyone! The game's on sale so now is a great time to gift it to a friend!
Through January 19th, we are reopening the Winter Market where you can find loads of limited time seasonal hardscape pieces including lighting which has tons of use in creative aquascaping in any season.
HOLIDAY BETTAS ARE BACK!
Keep your eye out for two different types of rare red & green bettas.
Collect as many as you can because they're only going to be findable until January 19th! No two fish in Fish Game are identical under the hood, but the mottled version of this fish especially will come in loads of slightly different patterns.
DEV UPDATE
We're putting the finishing touches on the Chemistry and Equipment update! If you want a sneak peak, hop into the Superfins channel on our Discord!
Happy Holidays and thanks for another great year!
Big news! We’ve been working on this one for a while.
Everyone keeps asking for more fish. We ran out of fish budget ages ago, so we’ve been working on ways to keep adding them. One of our solutions is to announce our first partnership with the delightful folks at Quinn’s Fins!
We put their store in our game and our game in their store: Quinn’s Fins will now appear in the base game as a virtual store, featuring 12(!) free new in-game fish that Quinn’s Fins sells in real life across North America, and folks can purchase Fish Game from Quinn’s Fins online store. (To be clear, Fish Game will not receive any proceeds from the sale of these fish.)
And! If you love a fish you find in the Quinn’s Fins in-game store and want one in real-life, you can link directly to their online store from the game and order it! Since you’ve already become familiar with a deeply-simulated version of the fish, you’ll have a better idea of its real-life needs.
Here are the fish being added:
Peppered Corydora Catfish
Black Kuhli Loach
Polar Blue Tiger Parrotfish
Lyretail Blue Gold Guppy
Platinum Koi
Cardinal Tetra
Green Spotted Pufferfish
24-Karat Gold White Cloud Minnow
Tiger Barb
Blue Regal Peacock Cichlid
OB Red Zebra Mbuna Cichlid (2 distinct variations)
This isn’t an “announcement of an announcement”. They’re available right now!
Note that not all of them will be immediately available and will follow the same level-unlock path other stores require as some fish are for more advanced keepers.
Want to have direct influence on future fish to be added? Join the Fish Game Patreon to vote on future DLC (and to get those DLC included as part of your subscription). We also invite you to join the community Discord to share your aquascapes and thoughts!
Hey everyone,
The Steam Autumn Sale starts in an hour AND it’s also spooky season, one of our favourite times of the year! To celebrate, we're introducing limited-time hardscape that will be available from now until October 31st. What might you expect to find? You'll have to visit a special pop-up Spooky Shop to find out! But here's a sneak peek:
The Spooky Shop will be around for a LIMITED TIME ONLY, so make sure you stop by and grab whatever pieces you like. Once you have them, you've got 'em forever!
Can't wait to see all your spooky tanks!
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