The Galactic Aquarium

The premise of the game is pretty simple, each day you buy some fish at the store, and then click ‘next day’ where you’ll get a summary of what fishes mated, died or were eaten by other fishes. The aim is to start off with some cheap, basic guppies and gradually move up the food chain to get electric eels and other exotic aquatics in your fish tank.

While the concept is executed well enough, it’s pretty dull to play. You don’t even get to see your fish swin around, they just appear as a list at the beginning of each day, and most of your time is spent cycling through menus deciding what fish you should condemn to be eaten buy next. Graphics are pretty simple, but not terrible, and there aren’t many sounds apart from the not-too-hot musical backing track.

Although not a particularly interesting game, the cheap price means it could be a little distraction for any kids you might have, but don’t blame me if they get bored quite quickly.

The Galactic Aquarium was developed by GoGo Robot and is 80 Points.