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Joyquarium

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Joyquarium is a relaxing casual fish-raising game. Buy various cute fry and sell them at a high price after they grow up. With the money you earn, you can purchase aquatic plants, driftwood, scenery stone, etc. to decorate your tank (you can freely adjust the color, size, and position).

What works

  • Relaxing and meditative gameplay
  • Extensive aquarium customization and decoration
  • Idle mechanics with afk income
  • Visually pleasing and calming audio
  • Good value especially on discount

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay loop
  • Saltwater content underdeveloped
  • Some translation and localization issues
  • Minor performance issues on low-end machines
  • Lack of social or multiplayer features

What to play next

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Less expressive

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More fantastical

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Joyquarium: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Last update: 24/08/2026