Chillquarium

Released: Sep 6, 2023
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 10:32 GMT

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02 Jun 2026Developer post
Tank Titans Community Event Begins + Wing Haven Showcase News!
Tank Titans Begins + Wing Haven Showcase News! Hey fish friends! 🐠 We’ve got a couple of exciting things to share with the Chillquarium community today! 🏆 Introducing: Tank Titans! We’re launching a brand new community event to discover the ultimate fan favourite fish from the
Tank Titans Begins + Wing Haven Showcase News!
Hey fish friends! 🐠
We’ve got a couple of exciting things to share with the Chillquarium community today!
🏆 Introducing: Tank Titans!
We’re launching a brand new community event to discover the ultimate fan favourite fish from the Freshwater Friends pack!
Welcome to Tank Titans, a tournament-style showdown where fish will battle it out head-to-head, with the community voting each round to decide who advances. Eventually, only one fish will remain and be crowned the true champion of the Freshwater Friends pack!
Want to take part? Make sure to join our Discord! We’ll have a dedicated channel where you can:
Follow the tournament bracket
View matchups and results
Cast your votes
Cheer on your favourite fish 🐟
We can’t wait to see which aquatic icon rises to the top!
🌿 Wing Haven in Clemmy’s BIG Indie Games Summer Showcase
We’re also excited to announce that Wing Haven will be appearing in Clemmy’s Best Indie Games Summer Showcase, today June 2nd. You can tune into the showcase at 8am Pacific here:
View game page
If you haven’t checked out Wing Haven yet, now’s the perfect time to do so make sure to wishlist the game and follow along as we get closer to launch. 💚
View game page
Thank you all, as always, for supporting Chillquarium and helping make this community so wonderful!

- Ben and Sophie x
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17 Apr 2026Developer post
Wing Haven Trailer Release and 50% off Chillquarium!
Hello everyone! First of all, thank you for your incredible response to last week's news post. It’s been great to be back sharing things about Chillquarium and Wing Haven with you all. ❤️ You’ve really helped get Chillquarium on Android and iOS off to a great start and nearly 100
09 Apr 2026Developer post
Chillquarium Coming to Mobile and Wing Haven News!
Hi everyone! It's been a while! Despite the radio silence I've been here the whole time, working away behind the scenes, and I finally have some exciting news to share! Once again, thanks so much for all of your support over the last few years, it’s been an incredible journey and
30 May 2025Developer post
1.3.7 Hotfix B
Fixed the remaining game-breaking bug + a few small changes: Fixed bug where some European users were not getting offline earnings Fixed bug where alt-tab feeding stopped working You can now close the collection highlight menu
Fixed the remaining game-breaking bug + a few small changes:

Fixed bug where some European users were not getting offline earnings
Fixed bug where alt-tab feeding stopped working
You can now close the collection highlight menu
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29 May 2025Developer post
Hotfix 5/29
As expected, the engine change led to some unintended side effects! I've fixed the most dire ones: Fixed a rendering incompatibility error which was causing the game to crash on older machines Fixed an issue where the Oarfish was not showing up. If you had any and played before t
As expected, the engine change led to some unintended side effects! I've fixed the most dire ones:

Fixed a rendering incompatibility error which was causing the game to crash on older machines
Fixed an issue where the Oarfish was not showing up. If you had any and played before this hotfix, they may be gone now unfortunately, sorry about that!
Fixed a bug where the lights would refuse to change during the day
Fixed an infinite money glitch where buying 100 golden pelagic dudes packs caused you to actually gain money instead of losing it
Fixed bug where swap tank buttons still showed up on newly added fish.
There are still more things to fix, but these should be the most important, and I wanted to publish this ASAP since it was game breaking for those of you on older machines.
Thanks for your patience! Again, I'm just one guy, I appreciate y'all for bearing with me through any growing pains.
Best fishes,
-Ben
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28 May 2025Developer post
Chillquarium 1.3.7 Patch Notes
Hey y'all! I've been working for the last few months on migrating Chillquarium from Godot 3.5 to the current Godot 4.4. This is an under-the-hood engine upgrade that wound up taking longer than I expected, but should make the game easier for me to maintain and work on moving forw
Hey y'all! I've been working for the last few months on migrating Chillquarium from Godot 3.5 to the current Godot 4.4. This is an under-the-hood engine upgrade that wound up taking longer than I expected, but should make the game easier for me to maintain and work on moving forward. Migrating the game led to a lot of unexpected bugs that I have tracked down, and while I think everything is working now, it is likely that there are more bugs that I have not yet seen! So if anything weird turns up, let me know in the Steam forums or in the #bug-reports channel on the Discord server. As always, bug reports are a huge help, thanks to those of you who have been posting them!
In the meantime, I tried to also address some of the common complaints I've noticed with the recent update.
Changes

New fish-specific menu in collection with a cleaner interface for checking alt-painted variants (and also a 3D card shader effect stolen from a certain poker-based-roguelike).
Performance improvements when adding and feeding fish, and navigating the tank menu and collection menu.
Added an extra freshwater and saltwater tank for the living-dexers out there
Added a mercy timer for mythics and painted mythics
Added some new visual particle effects for rainbow cards and tweaked the mythics particle effect to be cooler and less obnoxious
Large amounts of money are now abbreviated
Costs in the shop are now obscured until you have reached a certain amount of money (so as not to spoil the surprise of "These cost *15 Quadrillion$!* etc.)
The game now saves whether or not gold packs were selected in the shop
Bugfixes

Fixed bug where offline income appeared to max out at 92 Quadrillion (this was actually just a visual bug, the real amount seemed to scale properly)
Minor tank menu layout improvements
"Equip" tank button removed from the shop because it was confusing
Switch tank button no longer appears if there is no other valid tank
Happy fishing!
-Ben
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10 Mar 2025Developer post
V1.3.4 Patch Notes
Hey everyone! Here's a patch for a few of the most prominent issues and bug reports I've been getting based on the changes from the last patch. UX Improvements The game now saves and creates a backup when it is closed via alt+f4 or the exit window button. Achievements now require
Hey everyone! Here's a patch for a few of the most prominent issues and bug reports I've been getting based on the changes from the last patch.
UX Improvements

The game now saves and creates a backup when it is closed via alt+f4 or the exit window button.
Achievements now require all 26 fish rather than 25, which was confusing for a lot of people. (Don't worry, if you already had the achievement it will not be taken away!)
Reduced volume when opening golden packs.
Cards now warn you if the tank has the wrong water type.
Card packs now display the water type they need in the shop.
Scroll bars are now more prominent.
Removed the sell fish hotkey because it was only ever pressed on accident.
No longer need to wiggle the mouse to collect cards.
Improved performance. This is just two words but it took a long time. Hopefully the game should be running more smoothly with full (and overfull, for the hackers out there) tanks!
Bugfixes

Fixed bug where rare fish were much more prominent in golden packs.
Fixed bug where golden cards would chime extremely loudly when the game was first opened.
Note About Tank Space
Conspicuously missing from this list is the addition of more tank space -- I realize this is very important to the folks who are trying to collect one of each fish and I want to add it, but things have been busy on my end and I want to implement a bit more involved of a change than just having an extra freshwater and saltwater tank. I am going to be out of town for a while, and I really wanted to get these UX improvements and bugfixes online ASAP rather than waiting until this was ready.
-Ben
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15 Feb 2025Developer post
Achievement hotfix
Fixed another bug causing achievements not to update in some cases.
04 Feb 2025Developer post
Hotfix Feb 4th
Fixed a bug where new achievements weren't updating if fish grew up while the game was closed Fixed a visual bug where fish with very high incomes displayed "Earning $0.01 per day"
Fixed a bug where new achievements weren't updating if fish grew up while the game was closed
Fixed a visual bug where fish with very high incomes displayed "Earning $0.01 per day"
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03 Feb 2025Developer post
Chillquarium Version 1.3 Update!
Happy New Fish Day Everybody! Hi y'all! I'm extremely excited to announce that after a bunch of work, Chillquarium version 1.3 is finally here! I am continually grateful to all of you for playing my game and letting me spend my time doing what I love, and as thanks I plan to keep
Happy New Fish Day Everybody!
Hi y'all! I'm extremely excited to announce that after a bunch of work, Chillquarium version 1.3 is finally here! I am continually grateful to all of you for playing my game and letting me spend my time doing what I love, and as thanks I plan to keep adding stuff to Chillquarium for as long as people are interested in playing it <3
So without any further ado, here's a quick rundown of what's changed!
Patch Notes
New Stuff!

Added 26 new fish in the "Pelagic Dudes" pack!
Added 8 new tank decorations, doubling the amount in the game! Some of them even feature mildly interactive elements!
Added Golden Tickets, which allow you to directly purchase golden packs after raising all painted fish of a given pack!
Minor Changes and QOL Improvements

Alternate painted varieties are now displayed in the collection by hovering over the painted version of the fish, so you can tell which ones you're still missing!
Golden packs now grant double the chance of producing rainbow fish
Removed the upper bound on money
Fish cards and packs now persist if the game is save+quit before they are added to the tank
Added a "Sort by type" option in the tank menu so all fish of the same type are grouped together regardless of color variant
Improved golden pack visuals
Bugfixes

Fixed bug where money was sometimes set to negative value on launch
Fixed bug where saltwater tanks displayed wrong name when first bought
Sorting in tank menu now groups like fish together.
Various minor optimizations
One of the most consistent pieces of feedback I've received is that getting all of the gold fish achievements is far too grindy, and I agree! My original intention was just to have something to recognize the accomplishment of those few die-hard fans that were invested enough to open thousands of packs. What I've realized, though, is that including something as an achievement carries an implication of being worth your time, which was frustrating to many players. Less than 3% of players ever completed a gold row in their collection.
To remedy this, the most natural solution was to allow players to buy golden packs directly. The difficult part was to try to implement this in a way that doesn't cheapen the experience of getting natural goldens. My solution was to allow players to buy golden tickets for each pack, but only after all of the painted fish for that pack (not counting alternates) have been raised to adulthood. My hope is that this helps the achievement hunters of the world (like me!) to 100% the game without having to sell a portion of their soul to the RNG gods.
Happy fishing! (and eventually, birding?)
-Ben
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11 Nov 2024Developer post
Save File Integrity Hotfix V1.2.3
Quick patch notes that represent a surprising amount of development effort. Added a manual rollback system that lets you revert your save file to a previous session in case of save file corruption. Older backups are sent to the system recycle bin rather than deleted completely. F
Quick patch notes that represent a surprising amount of development effort.

Added a manual rollback system that lets you revert your save file to a previous session in case of save file corruption.
Older backups are sent to the system recycle bin rather than deleted completely.
Fixed one more known issue that was leading to backup saves being corrupted.
My hope is that this update should kill save file corruptions for good, because even if something corrupting happens it will only mean that the previous session is lost rather than everything.
Just want to say a sincere apology to anyone who has lost their save file. This has been an issue that has plaguing the game since release, and every previous attempt I've made to fix it - as documented in the update patch note history- has reduced the number of occurrences but never eradicated them. In my opinion this kind of issue is unacceptable for a professional product, and it represents the growing-pains of me figuring out how to be a real developer instead of just a hobbyist.
Thanks again for bearing with me! My hope is that solidifying save file integrity will free up space for me to actually work on new content that adds to the game for everyone and makes it as good as possible.
Happy fishing!
-Ben
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22 Jul 2024Developer post
V1.2.2 Achievement hotfix
Fixed a bug where Spring Pals achievements were not updating properly Added a framerate cap option New rainbow fish now display as silhouettes Updated schooling behavior for Spring Pals Fixed a bug where cards could get stuck on screen I've been meaning to launch this update for
Fixed a bug where Spring Pals achievements were not updating properly
Added a framerate cap option
New rainbow fish now display as silhouettes
Updated schooling behavior for Spring Pals
Fixed a bug where cards could get stuck on screen
I've been meaning to launch this update for a long time! Life has been very busy my way, as I've just gotten married and moved into a new house, but things are finally slowing down enough that I can get more dev time in!
Happy fishing,
-Ben
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07 Jun 2024Developer post
Save file integrity hotfix
Reworked backup save file system for Windows to prevent save file corruption
02 Jun 2024Developer post
Wing Haven announcement + Chillquarium Version 1.2 Update!
Hello everyone, it's been a while but I'm back with three big pieces of news! I'm announcing Wing Haven -- the bird-themed sequel to Chillquarium! Wing Haven is a game about populating wildlife sanctuaries with rare birds! It's a spiritual successor to Chillquarium, but I'm reall
Hello everyone, it's been a while but I'm back with three big pieces of news!
I'm announcing Wing Haven -- the bird-themed sequel to Chillquarium!
Wing Haven is a game about populating wildlife sanctuaries with rare birds! It's a spiritual successor to Chillquarium, but I'm really excited about the variety that comes from having new biomes to build in and fill with native plant species. If you are interested, you can head over to the Steam page and add it to your wishlist, it does a lot for the Steam algorithm if you do!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2790850/Wing_Haven/
For the time being, Wing Haven is still in the early stages of development, and I'm super excited for where it will end up. For now that means that I don't have a target release date in mind -- it will be ready once it's ready. And don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm abandoning Chillquarium any time soon! I plan to continue development for both games in tandem moving forward. Which brings me to announcement number 2....
A new update for Chillquarium is ready!
The main content of this update is an extra pack of fish to play with, but I've also added a few quality of life improvements that have been heavily requested.
Quick patch notes!

Introducing Spring Pals, a new pack of freshwater fish to discover!
Added an extra freshwater and saltwater tank, so you now have more room for all your fish!
Added the ability to rename your tanks, finally!
And last but not least...
Chillquarium is now 33% off as a featured Steam Daily Deal!
From now until June 9th, you can get Chillquarium for 33% off! That's the biggest discount the game has ever had, so now is the perfect time for those of you who've been holding onto the game in your wishlist to save some money!
Happy Fishing!
-Ben
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24 Feb 2024Developer post
Announcing the Gnorp & Chill Bundle!
Hey everyone! I'm super excited to announce that myco, the creator of (the) Gnorp Apologue and I have teamed up to create a bundle on Steam! You can get both games together for 15% off, or if you already own Chillquarium (I assume you probably do if you're reading this), then you
17 Feb 2024Developer post
Save file integrity hotfix #2
Added an extra layer of protection against save file corruption.
14 Feb 2024Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.3
Reduced strain on filesystem to combat save file corruption. Newly earned Mythics now display properly in the popup. Reset Data UI is improved. Resetting save file now starts the tutorial again, so the quest money can be earned. Fixed a bug where an additional controller being pl
Reduced strain on filesystem to combat save file corruption.
Newly earned Mythics now display properly in the popup.
Reset Data UI is improved. Resetting save file now starts the tutorial again, so the quest money can be earned.
Fixed a bug where an additional controller being plugged in could cause the menu screen animation to loop, rendering the game unplayable.
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11 Jan 2024Developer post
Simplified Chinese Hotfix
Fixed a bug where certain simplified Chinese characters did not show up in certain circumstances.
28 Dec 2023Developer post
Hotfix V1.1.1
-Fixed a bug where money values did not display for certain players -Fixed a bug where the "Rainbow Rule" was not applying to Mythic fish
25 Dec 2023Developer post
Chillquarium version 1.1 update!
Hello everyone! Merry Fishmas to you all! I'm back, with a new update to Chillquarium! Things have been really busy at work but I'm finally ready to push a new build. Patch Notes Additional language support! Chillquarium now supports Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German,
Hello everyone! Merry Fishmas to you all!
I'm back, with a new update to Chillquarium! Things have been really busy at work but I'm finally ready to push a new build.
Patch Notes
Additional language support!
Chillquarium now supports Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian! Huge thanks to the folks at IndieArk for their excellent translations!
New content!

Added a mythic fish to each pack which is 10x rarer than the legendaries! (Not required for achievements)
Added some additional painted colorings for some of the fish! These have a chance to appear once the standard painted fish has been discovered. Some fish have multiple alternate painted varieties!
All baby sharks now have their own unique sprites, instead of sharing just one!

Quality of Life improvements!

Added a "Reduced Clicking" option, which greatly reduces the number of clicks required to buy and open packs
Added a "Buy Max" button, for buying as many packs as possible with a single click
Gold fish now have a 25% chance to increase rarity level if all golden fish at the existing rarity are discovered. This effects stacks, so there is a 1/16 chance of a double-promotion.
Various UI tweaks and minor bugfixes.

Implementing translations has taken a large amount of development time, but I'm very excited as it means Chillquarium can be experienced by a much greater variety of gamers. I hope you all have fun finding the new painted fish!
Best,
-Ben
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Updates & announcements

Tank Titans Begins + Wing Haven Showcase News!

🏆 Introducing: Tank Titans!

🌿 Wing Haven in Clemmy’s BIG Indie Games Summer Showcase

🐦 WING HAVEN TRAILER RELEASE 🐦

🌍 EARTH APPRECIATION FESTIVAL 🌍

Hi everyone!

WING HAVEN 🐦

CHILLQUARIUM MOBILE 🐟📱

GOOGLE PLAY and APPLE APP STORE

INTRODUCING SOPHIE 👋

P.S. I finally got a real tank!

Changes

Bugfixes

UX Improvements

Bugfixes

Note About Tank Space

Happy New Fish Day Everybody!

Patch Notes

New Stuff!

Minor Changes and QOL Improvements

Bugfixes

I'm announcing Wing Haven -- the bird-themed sequel to Chillquarium!

A new update for Chillquarium is ready!

Quick patch notes!

Chillquarium is now 33% off as a featured Steam Daily Deal!

Patch Notes

Additional language support!

New content!

Quality of Life improvements!