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Desktop Fishes

Daniel Santalla · 2025-11-13

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 13, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A cozy idle aquarium overlay that brings your desktop to life with pixel-art fish. You can hatch, breed, and collect fishes in thousands of genetic combinations. Dress them up with accessories, watch them grow from eggs to adults, and unlock playful upgrades through a skill tree.

77%
positive of 160 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 46% of 10,867 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 160 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
585820252026Week of 2025-11-14: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-21: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-28: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCamera ComfortColor AlternativesAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputTouch Only OptionSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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