- Tank Titans Community Event Begins + Wing Haven Showcase News! - 2 June 2026
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 bracketView matchups and resultsCast your votesCheer 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 ShowcaseWe’re also excited to announce…
- Wing Haven Trailer Release and 50% off Chillquarium! - 17 April 2026
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 1000 of you have signed up for the Wing Haven playtest already! If you’ve not signed up yet, make sure to do so now by filling in the form here: PLAYTEST SIGN UPS - https://forms.gle/aup1tzjabBZBkRaDASo, onto today's exciting news: 🐦 WING HAVEN TRAILER RELEASE 🐦It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve just released the first short trailer for Wing Haven. We know it’s just a small glimpse, but we hope you enjoy seeing those cute birds flapping around for the first time. Check it out below! The store page has also had a pretty cool upgrade, with new screenshots and gifs also. And if you’ve not wishlisted Wing Haven…
- Chillquarium Coming to Mobile and Wing Haven News! - 9 April 2026
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 one that I’m not done with yet! WING HAVEN 🐦Once again, thank you so much for your patience and excitement for Wing Haven. Progress has been steady and in April you’ll get your first glimpse of the game. 👀So, if you still haven't wishlisted Wing Haven on Steam, make sure you do now to hear about all the news the second it drops! And also join our Discord server to get hyped with us all. We're also looking for some Chillquarium pros and enthusiasts to come and help out with making Wing Haven as good as it can be! So if you want to get involved and play an early version of Wing Haven, make sure to sign up for p…
- 1.3.7 Hotfix B - 30 May 2025
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
- Hotfix 5/29 - 29 May 2025
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 pa…
- Chillquarium 1.3.7 Patch Notes - 28 May 2025
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 als…
- V1.3.4 Patch Notes - 10 March 2025
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, fo…
- Achievement hotfix - 15 February 2025
Fixed another bug causing achievements not to update in some cases.
- Hotfix Feb 4th - 4 February 2025
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"
- Chillquarium Version 1.3 Update! - 3 February 2025
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
- Save File Integrity Hotfix V1.2.3 - 11 November 2024
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…
- V1.2.2 Achievement hotfix - 22 July 2024
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
- Save file integrity hotfix - 7 June 2024
Reworked backup save file system for Windows to prevent save file corruption
- Wing Haven announcement + Chillquarium Version 1.2 Update! - 2 June 2024
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 c…
- Announcing the Gnorp & Chill Bundle! - 24 February 2024
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 can still get Gnorpin' for 15% off! (the) Gnorp Apologue is another awesome solo-developed idle game. It is immensely satisfying and very well polished. Seriously, the amount of dopamine I get from making my little dudes slam into this rock is off the charts. If you like Chillquarium, do yourself a favor and check this game out as well. You can even play both games at once! If you want to support more small indie devs like me, this is a great way to do it. Happy Gnorpin', -Ben
- Save file integrity hotfix #2 - 17 February 2024
Added an extra layer of protection against save file corruption.
- Hotfix 1.1.3 - 14 February 2024
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.
- Simplified Chinese Hotfix - 11 January 2024
Fixed a bug where certain simplified Chinese characters did not show up in certain circumstances.
- Hotfix V1.1.1 - 28 December 2023
-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
- Chillquarium version 1.1 update! - 25 December 2023
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 reduce…
