Games like Chillquarium
If Chillquarium is your kind of game, the closest matches are Joyquarium, Fishlets and Easy Bubbles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achievement hunting for completionists, addictive fish game and chill. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Chillquarium is a 2023 casual simulation from developer Ben Reber in which players purchase, collect, and raise fish in real time within customizable aquariums, selling them for profit as they work toward increasingly elaborate tank setups. The game features gacha-style mechanics for rare and ultra-rare fish drops, autofeeding systems, and achievement-hunting for players seeking collection milestones. Players describe it as a chill and whimsical experience, with reviewers highlighting the decorating customization and addictive nature of building out one's collection. Available for $5.99 on Steam and playable on Steam Deck, the game holds a 94% positive rating from over 5,100 reviews.
About Chillquarium: Chillquarium is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Buy fish and raise them in real time, then sell them to turn a profit! Customize your aquarium as you progress from a simple starter tank to your dream setup by filling your collection with rare exotic fish and ultra-rare color variants!
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Joyquarium
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Shares tank decoration, idle progression, casual and a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Top pick for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
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).
Fishlets
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Shares tank decoration, fish collection, casual and a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Second-strongest match for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Decorate your own aquariums and care for a variety of fish in Fishlets, a cozy fish-collecting sim! Feed, breed, sell, and collect fish and aquatic critters in the virtual tanks mode. Drop into Adventure mode and progress through 7 unique levels, unlocking even more fish while fending off threats!
Easy Bubbles
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Third-strongest match for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Easy Bubbles is a relaxing aquarium simulation filled with cute sea creatures. Manage your aquarium with click and idle mechanics, collect resources and have a pleasant experience in the colorful and peaceful underworld.
Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping
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Shares decoration customization, idle progression, casual and a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Ranked #4 for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
A happy aquarium that lives at the bottom of your screen! Tiny Aquarium is a social idle simulator that keeps growing, even when offline. Hatch, sell fish, decorate, go fishin’, and visit your friends’ aquariums with bite-sized daily sessions.
Cozy Island Idle
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Shares idle progression, collectible hunting, casual and a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Ranked #5 for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Cozy Island Idle is a chill fishing idle game where you catch all sort of fantasy fishes to showcase them in an Aquarium to sell them to turn a profit and customize your aquarium and island.
Peacequarium
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Ranked #6 for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
An aquarium sim you can keep anywhere on your screen while you do other things. Buy endless upgrades, apply trait modifiers, and complete your collection of rare, epic and legendary fish! Buy today or give a gift to someone!
Dino Park
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Ranked #7 for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
🦕 Dino Park is a cozy idle game about collecting dinosaurs! 🦖 Watch your dinosaurs level up in real time, earning more money for your park. Create the perfect environment for your dinosaurs to increase the chance of discovering super rare variants! Can you collect them all?
Soggy Beans
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Ranked #8 for Chillquarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Fish will come, fish will go. Take photos, collect beans, decorate your seascape, then relax or do other things while your friends swim by in this calming side-idler.
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Plantera
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Shares achievement hunting and a cozy mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.
Melvor Idle
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Shares a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
Aquarium Designer
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Shares a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!
Planta
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Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
Planta is a third-person open-world survival game with a procedurally generated terrain. It means the map is endless and expands while exploration! Planta throws you into an unrepeatable adventure in which you focus on gathering resources, building your base, exploring the world and... surviving!
Virtual Cottage
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Shares a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Cookie Clicker
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Shares achievement hunting and a whimsical mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game
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Shares idle progression and a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Blow leaves, upgrade your gear, and automate your progress as you explore the Leaf Universe. A satisfying incremental idle game where every leaf blown brings you closer to the next big upgrade. Simple, relaxing, and endlessly rewarding. Let the leaves fall, and your progress rise!
Luna's Fishing Garden
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Shares a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Reviewers of Chillquarium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Luna's Fishing Garden is a short, cozy fishing and building game. Catch fish, trade it in and create the garden of your dreams by planting new trees, placing water objects and bringing animals to the archipelago.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chillquarium at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~83% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
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Priced ~50% under Chillquarium on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Chillquarium.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chillquarium.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chillquarium.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chillquarium.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Frequently asked about Chillquarium
- Does Chillquarium run on Steam Deck?
- Chillquarium is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chillquarium cost?
- Chillquarium is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chillquarium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chillquarium are Joyquarium, Fishlets, Easy Bubbles.
- Who developed Chillquarium?
- Chillquarium was developed by Ben Reber.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Chillquarium.
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