Last updated on February 17th, 2026 at 06:10 am
Splash — Fish Aquarium – Education Game Review
Splash — Fish Aquarium is a Education/Casual/Simulation game from Runaway Play Ltd, first launched in 9th April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 6,115+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Splash — Fish Aquarium Stand Out
Become the caretaker of a vibrant ocean reef! Collect and care for hundreds of lovable sea creatures in this relaxing game.
Dive into a peaceful underwater world where every new discovery brings your reef to life. Meet an incredible variety of real-world marine species, beautifully designed to reflect how they look and behave in nature, and enjoy learning delightful facts about each new friend you welcome.
A friendly turtle will be your guide as you hatch new species and nurture them to adulthood. Once they are fully grown, you'll release them to help restore balance to the wider ocean. Along the way, decorate your reef with vibrant coral and charming décor to create your own cozy sanctuary!
GAME HIGHLIGHTS:
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Relaxing Gameplay: Immerse yourself in a serene, visually stunning underwater world, teeming with life.
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Hundreds of Ocean Species: Collect and nurture spectacular marine life, from vibrant angelfish and ethereal seadragons to majestic sharks, alongside other stunning species.
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Decorate: Adorn your reef with a diverse array of beautiful coral and decorations that produce coins to help you grow your sanctuary.
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Learn as You Play: Document your discoveries and learn fascinating real-world facts about every species in the Aquapedia.
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Special Events: Join limited-time events to discover new species and exclusive decorations. There's always something new to collect!
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Connect with Friends: Exchange gifts and help each other build thriving sanctuaries.
If you love fish, collection, and calming, nature-inspired games, prepare to be captivated by the wonders of Splash.
Splash is developed and published by Runaway.
This game is free to play but does contain in-app purchases. If you run into any issues while playing or you have any suggestions, please reach out to us at [email protected]
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Splash — Fish Aquarium is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd February 2026
Recent improvements include:
Valentine’s Day Brand New Content!
- Collect brand new creatures in this special event, available for a limited time only!
- 4 loveable pink Anthias Fish to unlock and populate your ocean reef!
- Limited Valentine-themed decorations to collect!
- Available to players over level 6.
Download & Availability
Splash — Fish Aquarium is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Splash — Fish Aquarium on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We play this game on and off all day. Its relaxing and fun. Only thing is that you have to spend a lot of time on it if you want to get anywhere.
This game is fun to play with millions of animals . The corals are as colorful as gem stones we can upgrade some once or twice and they give us money,food,and fish ( which we cant afford ) . Maisy is a darling she and her crabs make millions of delicious sushi we make whales,sharks, and dolphins happy. Finnaly we want to add the amount of work the creators who made this fun, educational , creative, and entertaining game about fish,coral, and how we can save the coral reefs of the world. Thank you @runnaway creators we are so happy you made this game.
Relaxing game that does not pressure you to spend real money. Ads are optional to watch to get prizes, but Ive never done it. Good amount of content-we have played other idle games where you run out of things to do or the currency gets super inflated. Our only complaint is the octopus events get repetitive.
We just started playing this game but Ive liked their other game pondlife for a while now and this is very similar, love it.
We absolutely love this game!! So much fun, and ive literally been obsessed!!!! We play pretty much everyday, and it never gets old.
The art is really lovely and we applaud the facts and education that is slipped into a pretty and amusing game.
We love this app, but only play it if you're prepared for a decent amount of audio bugs and save issues.
A slow game to play and this is a compliment, and a reason why we continue playing. This allows for paying attention to other life needs but, still including playtime. Also, it makes for great visual stimming, since one can just watch the fish swimming. Advertisements are rewarded with things for game play and unobtrusive. Which makes us much more willing to exchange our time to watch an ad to support the app.
We like the game but can you add an option to disable age player ttr**ls from the slow turtle because its so slow and it forces us to feed event fish and can you add an option to sell fish for splashcash or coins with a confirm button like event fish because we have a few sharks but we dont have food or their coral food for them so they take up space and we do not have enough splashcash and Im hungry because we want to eat the slow age player turtle.
Played this game for a couple months and noticed that almost every time we open the app, there's an "error with the game" that causes the whole thing to restart so it just made the game not worth it anymore :( Loved this game unfortunately.
This game is so calling and fun! We love that they tell you information about the fish and coral! Teaches you all about them as you play along! Great for what career Im chasing (marine ecology) learning more than we know! 100% recommend.
When we got this game we thought it was going to be kinda boring but now its kinda addicting.
We learned so much about different species of angelfish like the barred angel fish if theres not enough males or females they can change their genders. Overall we love all the games related to it.
We play this game multiple times a day, we went on for the second time today and suddenly our WiFi wasnt working, and then it showed us it was starting us at the very beginning again. Im so sad and upset! Ive worked over a year to get to level 38 and now it tries to start us at the first level. PLEASE HELP.
We had a nearly thriving population of Copperband Butterfly fish, and when we logged in the next day it said we hadnt hatched any. We thought maybe it was a weird glitch and had restarted the game several times throughout the day to no avail. Ive now spent two days trying to get back to where we were even though Im logged in and all our other progress had not reverted. Ive also watched several adds h the rough the video snail that take us back to the main ocean once Ive completely watched the ad instead of letting us spin the wheel. Ive wasted so much time on this game so farits a little upsetting especially since overall we do love it.
We have been waiting for a GOOD game on the App Store that isnt overrun with a thousand ads and we have found it here, love this little game.
Bro, we love this game so much. Its so fun and amazing and its really calming and they give you stickers and its so adorable.
It's a relaxing and fun. But it doesn't require in app purchases to be a fun game. We really like it.
It is such a calming game. It is fun to play and is free. We love to play it because it makes us chill. Like the chill guy we are.
We would love a deep sea splash game with deep sea creatures from all around the world.
We like the game it's calming and fun to play our favorite apart of it is that you get to feed the fish.
We have been playing splash for a week, and Im really enjoying this game! We love the cute creatures and all the cool features like the aquapidea, the quests, the crab, the events, the friends mechanic, and the game is just perfect! Though in the future Id really love to see you guys add a mechanic where you can visit friendss reefs. Id also love to see more maisy events/cheaper visitor-fish. Thank you!(edit: MY WISH CAME TRUE!!! Now there is events every month! This is our new favorite game! Also, we know its a little to much to ask all at once, but, could you guys consider um making the events slightly easier for new player, like we did the gleaming surgeonfish event and we barely got the 4th event fish, EVEN WITH THE EXTRA TIME.)(edit 2: Im sorry for all the criticism. We really love this game! But, we just love sea creatures so much we want all of them and we now take back our criticism on the events because the pintling seahorse event ended and we got the exact same score for the event.) we LOVE THIS GAME.
We enjoy very much the different species and how you dont really need in game purchases to advance. But the food costs should be lower, along with the coral coin producing system take less time, to allow for more gameplay at a time, rather than just having to wait for all your plants to give you money so you can feed your fish and continue.
It was actually super fun until you hit level 14. They essentially force you to pay for splash cash or whatever to advance past that. Honestly sad because this was really enjoyable up until then.
10/10 this game calms us anywhere we go.
We love this game and how many fish you can get and all the fun things you can do we just wish it didnt need Wi-Fi and that you can kind of do some stuff quicker like eggs, hatching stuff but anyways, we still really like This game.
We love this game and we think it is very relaxing and fun. We love the Maisy challenge because you can earn rewards and fish etc. We love all the fish we have earned through Maisy. Too bad we cant expand our aquarium anymore. Ive expanded as far we can. But we still love playing and discovering new fish. We recommend this game to anyone who loves fish and a challenge.
The game is super cute we love it.
So fun and relaxing. We would recommend it one hundred out of ten.
Its nice to not have a time limit rush or have to consistently check or else youll miss out. Visually pleasing, calming music and overall very wholesome.
We downloaded this game onto our sons iPad and weve enjoyed playing it together. This is such a beautiful, immersive, and addictive game. Our son loves it and so do we we think it says a lot about the quality of a game when players of all ages can enjoy it. The fish and coral/plant species are beautifully rendered and there are lots of educational tidbits to pick up about them along the way. We want to take a moment to praise the support team in particular. We encountered a purchase issue in the game and sent an email to them today. The issue was fixed and a friendly response email was sent from them in less than 10 minutes. That is some awesome customer care! Our one and only wish for this game would be voice narration. As we said, this game was downloaded for our son. He just turned 5 and hasnt learned to read yet. It would be so nice if there were an option to turn on voice narration so that when he is playing by himself, he can understand what the turtle and other characters are saying. We dont mind reading it to him, but often by the time he gets up and brings the iPad to us, the speech bubble has disappeared and we have no idea what was said. This isnt a deal breaker though, and we absolutely recommend downloading for anyone looking for a high-quality, relaxing, visually gorgeous game to play.
We have played this since we were a wee little Carson so Im giving it five stars.
We absolutely love this game!! So much fun, and ive literally been obsessed.
This game would be fun except it incentivizes you to not make fish. The rewards you get for growing a fish are less than what you need to make the next fish. Youre perpetually running at a deficit. So the only way to progress is to only make the fish you NEED and hope to god when you release them you get enough back to keep the ecosystem going. Its so strange. The economy should be such that Im making lots of fish for fun while focusing on main goals, not eschewing all fun in hopes of eventual progression maybe if Im lucky.
We absolutely love this game and Ive only had it a few days, but when we refresh the app all of our progress is lost. This has happened multiple times and we have connected our Apple ID and Game Center. We dont know how Im meant to fix this because we keep connecting our account and it keeps resetting.
This is genuinely the best cozy game we have ever played. So calming yet entertaining. Definitely gets us through the rough days at work. We CANNOT wait for Pond to come out, we already have it pre-ordered!!! To the developers: thank you for this gem. <3.
Im now at level 17, havent spent a dime! Ive been playing daily since we downloaded it, its soothing, its easy, yet gets harder with the bigger levels while still staying easy enough to stay relaxing. There are secondary mini games with a fun octopus friend who comes and goes and you can unlock special stuff throw her sushi game! Even rare fish who dont require money to feed! Just a decor slot for their food source! We have autism and have been going through a very rough time; this game has been very comforting, sometimes Ill just watch our reef friends swim around, get this game for your or your kid; totally free (you can buy things but dont need them at all!), totally cute and comforting, just 13/10 (13 is lucky to us lol).
We really need splash cash, so make this happen! Make Chloe the cuttlefish pay us players infinity splash cash and let her stay for the rest of her life! Also, hire voice actors to voice the characters in the game. We want to see more areas, like the open ocean, the abyssal zone and the shallow seas. And, please make all the visiting fish visit more times.
For the last two months, we have not been able to login at all. It says that our password is incorrect when we never changed it so now we can't even get it to the game has been two months.
We like how the fish and the other sea animals are patient about the food and we like how they look so cute and you can discover different species along the way plus they always get released back into the big ocean and we just discovered Chloe who is a cuddle fish and she gives us some Splash money so it is very nice to have this game splash for us to like the species of animals around the world.
We like this game and we use it as a stand in for happy aquarium since we cant find anything like it. We just wish it had some training minigames that made the fish worth more when selling like in happy aquarium. Fun overall.
So, if you read the title youll probably start to hate us. But when we say this game makes us want to kill a turtle, it makes us wanna kill the turtle in the game. Okay games great its just like flutter starlight just fish and a bit easier. But! Im here for one reason only. If we could we would kill the color changing fish names Chloe, we would! She keeps getting in our way, thanks for the money but stay out of our pictures! And stay out of our way. We had a good shot then she just appeared and and pushed our fish away! Frick her and frick that annoying turtle that keeps stopping us from clicking on the stupid fish. They get in our way! How to fix this? Maybe add a button that hides them, like your hiding any newcomers that can block you from clicking things but only appear back when they have stuff for you. And have a button to call the turtle when you need help.
We havent been able to open our game in several months. We have put years into this game. There is no clear solution on the website. Please address this issue.
We have been using this game for years on our tablets and forgot about it then got a phone and splash just popped in our brain will forever be a great game.
Been playing for a while and love getting new fishy and sharks, lets not forget all the different plants and treasures you can find as well. It can become addicting.
We love this game! We have an about 16 tropical fish in our tank right now so we love this aquarium game.
Entertaining, mindless, cute animations. Completely unnecessary to spend any real money whatsoever and get the most out of the game. Been playing for months we love it.
We really enjoy this game! We have spent maybe $5 for some extra splash cash this year but can easily play this game without paying anything and not feel like Im missing out. They also dont have any unwanted ads which is HUGE! Multiple times a day they have 2 types of shells show up. Both hold rewards. 1 is free w/o watching ads and the other requires 5 splash cash in game currency (which is pretty easy to get) OR you watch an ad. We never spend our splash cash on it and will either watch the ad or just skip that specific shell. They also have an optional ad prize wheel where you watch an ad and spin. You wont miss out on much if you dont choose to use it but we usually do it a few times a week. Never are there ad popups or ads in menus etc, its only if you choose to watch one – and the game doesnt make it where you really need to do it like others do. Our favorite event happens a few times a month and its when you can win new fish from Maisie the Octopus.
We have played this game before and we are so excited to build a new sanctuary! Im so sorry to delete this game. Thank you so much.
This game is low pressure and relaxing. The downside is that we reached level 48 a few years ago. We still enjoyed adding new fish groups ever 4 to 6 weeks. This year the developers have really slowed down adding new fish groups to the game. In summary its a great game if youre goal oriented and enjoy completing levels. However, once youve completed all the tasks there isnt much reason to keep playing the game unless youre addicted to playing it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.361
- Size: 576.21 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Runaway Play Ltd
Last updated: 3rd February 2026 | Genre: Education, Casual | Developer: Runaway Play Ltd