Aquatic Store Simulator
- November 5, 2024
- FreeMind S.A.
- 2h median play time
Get on SteamDive into the vibrant world of underwater retail with Aquatic Store Simulator! Manage your own aquatic-themed supermarket, from stocking shelves and setting prices to maintaining aquariums and delivering fish. Customize and expand your store to become a successful aquarist entrepreneur. Product placement, price setting, and aquarium preparation are key to attracting customers and ensuring the health and happiness of your marine life.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game has a unique concept that combines business management with aquarium care, making it engaging and enjoyable.
- The graphics are vibrant and charming, with beautifully detailed aquariums and a variety of fish and decorations.
- Once past the tutorial, the game offers a chill and addictive experience, with a good sense of progression and plenty to unlock.
- The controls are clunky and the cash register scanning mechanic is tedious, detracting from the overall enjoyment of the game.
- The game is overly grindy, making it difficult to progress and unlock features, which can lead to a repetitive experience.
- There are significant bugs and issues with the tutorial, which can frustrate new players and hinder their ability to enjoy the game.
- gameplay34 mentions
- 12 % positive mentions
- 53 % neutral mentions
- 35 % negative mentions
Gameplay reviews highlight a mix of engaging mechanics and significant execution issues. While the underwater-themed store concept is intriguing and graphics are praised, players report clunky controls, a buggy tutorial, and repetitive gameplay that diminishes long-term enjoyment. Specific mechanics, such as the cash register and tank decoration, are criticized for being frustrating and poorly designed, suggesting a need for further refinement.
“The gameplay is centered on running an underwater-themed store.”
“The graphics are crisp, the controls are intuitive, and the mechanics strike the right balance between complexity and enjoyment.”
“However, some of the mechanics could use a little polish.”
“While the hallmark mechanics of a simulator are there, the clunky controls combined with the buggy at best tutorial that sent me restarting the game multiple times just to get through it left me wanting more.”
“But it’s not perfect—the limited content, repetitive gameplay, and occasional control issues hold it back from being truly great.”
“This game has the most annoying cash register scanning mechanic in the history of simulator games!”
- graphics10 mentions
- 30 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
The graphics are generally well-received, characterized as decent and vibrant, with a particular emphasis on beautifully rendered water, which aligns with the aquarium theme. Players appreciate the crisp visuals and charming aesthetics, although some note that the gameplay itself may not be as engaging. Overall, the graphics contribute positively to the game's style and sense of progression.
“The visuals are vibrant and charming.”
“The graphics are crisp, the controls are intuitive, and the mechanics strike the right balance between complexity and enjoyment.”
“Decent graphics, good sense of progression, lots to unlock.”
- stability8 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability is marked by occasional glitches and frame rate drops, with reports of significant bugs affecting gameplay, particularly during the tutorial. While optimization is generally good, these issues can disrupt the experience, though players express hope for future updates and improvements. Overall, the game shows potential but requires further refinement to enhance stability.
“While the hallmark mechanics of a simulator are there, the clunky controls combined with the buggy tutorial that sent me restarting the game multiple times just to get through it left me wanting more.”
“Optimization in general is good, but sometimes there is something extremely buggy in the game that causes the game to drop to around 20 fps and then quickly return. The good part is that it wasn't that recurrent; I think it happened about 2 times in the 50 minutes of gameplay.”
“Updated review: there are still glitches in the game and it has limited content compared to other simulator games.”
- grinding6 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game excessively tedious and repetitive, often feeling like a second job rather than enjoyable gameplay. Many express frustration over the time required to progress, particularly in reaching level three, which hinders their ability to fully engage with the game.
“It's far too grindy, and getting to level three and actually starting to have fun seems impossible.”
“This was tedious, repetitive, and added nothing to my enjoyment.”
“It felt like a very tedious second job, with it taking over half an hour just to try to get the fish tank to read the right temperatures.”
- story4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 75 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game focuses more on player-driven experiences and the creation of an aquatic empire rather than a traditional narrative, resulting in a less defined storyline.
“It's less about a story and more about crafting your own aquatic empire.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Overall, the game's optimization is generally good, with only occasional significant frame rate drops to around 20 fps, which occurred infrequently—about twice during 50 minutes of gameplay.
“Optimization in general is good, but sometimes there is something extremely buggy in the game that causes the game to drop to around 20 fps and then quickly return. The good part is that it wasn't that recurrent; I think it happened about 2 times in the 50 minutes of gameplay.”
- music2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game is characterized as chill and soothing, perfectly complementing the relaxing atmosphere typical of simulation games.
“It's the kind of chill background music you'd expect in a relaxing sim like this.”
