They serve as excellent tutorials, and there are some decent challenges in there that will ultimately benefit you when it comes time to build your own aquarium without limitations. You don’t actually need to wait, however, and you can jump straight into the sandbox the moment you fire up the game, though I definitely recommend doing at least a few missions first. The campaign includes 10 missions, but once you’re all trained up, you can take on the sandbox mode. I had all sorts of different tanks to look after, each with their own ecosystems and countless fancy machines to help my fish thrive, but by developing my staff to fill specific roles and then assigning them to zones, the day-to-day running of the aquarium became partially automated, freeing me up to create new exhibits and focus on specific projects. Features are unfurled at just the right pace, so I never felt like everything was about to come crashing down. It took me ages to notice that I was juggling some rather complex aquariums. Most of the time, these new features are tied to the mission objectives, so the game takes the time to teach you throughout the campaign. New tools and props also get doled out, helping you build a slicker, more efficient aquarium. With each new mission comes not just unlockable fish, but additional services for your guests, like shops. Rather than lurching from crisis to crisis, Megaquarium is content to let you tweak and tinker with minimal pressure as you try to make both guests and fish as happy as possible.
In a less easy-going game, these might be more serious problems. Filters and overlays wouldn’t go amiss, either, especially when you’re trying to stop a disaster from happening instead of just responding to one. There’s no quick way to search for staff, fish or anything else, which isn’t a problem early on, but once you’re running huge aquariums with hundreds of fish and dozens of employees, you’ll definitely notice its absence. While Megaquarium is pretty good at telling you things are going pear-shaped and provides plenty of information about all of your fish, the UI is missing a few things.
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That’s been my experience generally - occasionally things will go terribly, horribly wrong because I can barely even look after myself, let alone an aquarium full of vulnerable fish, but repairing the damage is rarely a headache, and mistakes can typically be corrected very quickly. Alerts made it clear what the issues were, and within a few minutes I had a brand new tank up and running, the eels were happy and the other fish were safe. Fixing the problem, thankfully, wasn’t much more complicated. There are a few places where Megaquarium can be a touch vague, but all I needed to do to find out that adding eels to the tank was a bad idea was check their profile. I wish I could pretend this was all some unavoidable disaster that I don’t have fish blood on my hands. What had once hosted all sorts of colourful sea life had become a pool of death and sickness, presumably scarring any kids passing by. Some fish are bullies, some are timid and some like to gobble up everything they share a tank with. Worse, the eels weren't exactly friendly. My water filters weren't able to handle the new fish, so the water quality dropped immediately, increasing the risk of every fish in the tank getting sick. On the off chance anything broke down, I’d placed a workbench close at hand. Every day, one of my employees would grab food from the boxes nearby and keep the fish healthy and full. A filter kept it clean, the temperature was just right and I'd spruced it up with some plant life.
The tank was perfect for the azure demoiselles and orchid dottybacks (fish have amazing names) already inside it. As new fish are introduced across the campaign and sandbox mode, each with increasingly demanding requirements and personality quirks, keeping them all happy and alive necessitates a lot of planning. Megaquarium sits firmly on the relaxing end of the management spectrum, but it can still be a tightrope walk, tasking aquarium bosses with creating delicate ecosystems designed to support a wide variety of needy exotic fish, each with their own specific requirements and characteristics. So excited was I to display my new eels, I dropped them into a tank that already had a few underwater residents. Sure, I had some guests, seduced by the promise of clean floors, well-stocked vending machines and at least three types of fish, but I lacked the kind of big-ticket item that put aquariums on the map. Megaquarium's off-screen fish scientists had just unlocked some eels, and they seemed like just what my aquarium needed to draw in the big crowds.
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