Rock Paper Shotgun Megaquarium Feed

Rock Paper Shotgun Megaquarium Feedhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/feed/tag/video-games/megaquariumThe latest Megaquarium articles from Rock Paper Shotgun.enSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:01:00 +0000The 20 best management games on PChttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-management-gamesGraham SmithTue, 24 Nov 2020 17:07:29 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-management-gamesColossal OrderBanishedSurviving MarsMultiplayer CompetitivePlayStation VitaUbisoft Blue ByteXbox OneIntroversion SoftwarePlanet CoasterUbisoft EntertainmentDungeon KeeperFactorioFrostpunkMegaquariumBird view / IsometricSegaTextBullfrog ProductionsTropico 6Wube SoftwareDouble ElevenKlei EntertainmentOxygen Not IncludedShooterElectronic ArtsHaemimont GamesBay 12 GamesAuroch DigitalIndieNintendo SwitchZeus: Master of OlympusFirst personAndroidAnno 1800Shining Rock SoftwareXbox 360PCTwo Point HospitalStrategyThird personStrategy: Turn-Based StrategySkyboundRPGSingle PlayerParadox InteractiveRimWorldStrategy: Real-Time StrategyUbisoftiOSMaxisMultiplayer CooperativeAction AdventureCities: SkylinesKalypso MediaSide viewStardew ValleyThe Sims 4Dwarf FortressPS5Two Point StudiosMythic EntertainmentChucklefish GamesSimulationXbox Series X/S11 Bit StudiosMetanet SoftwareMacPrison ArchitectLimbic EntertainmentSlime RancherPS4Frontier Developments

The last couple of years have been pretty good for management games, but only the select few have made the cut for our list of best management games you can play right now. If you're looking for something to sink into over the holidays, check out our picks below.

Read more

]]>
Have You Played... Megaquarium?https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-megaquariumNate CrowleyTue, 28 Jul 2020 06:30:47 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-megaquariumFeatureHave You PlayedSimulationTwice CircledMegaquariumStrategy

Look, we've not got time for life histories here. If you've read anything of mine on this site or elsewhere, you'll know full well I really like, y'know, fish and that. Sea Geezers. Damp Daniels. The Wet Squad. Call them what you will, I'm into them. I subscribe to Practical Fishkeeping magazine. My office at home has ten fish tanks in it. If you weren't aware this was my thing, you are now. So you can imagine how keen I'd be on the prospect of a proper aquarium management game. Now admittedly, Megaquarium is not my ideal aquarium game. But since that would be a game so hideously in-depth and dry that it would probably sell about eight copies, all to me, I feel it's a decent compromise with the appetites of reasonable humans.

Read more

]]>
Our 15 favourite PC games of 2020 so farhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/our-15-favourite-pc-games-of-2020-so-farRPSThu, 16 Jul 2020 16:00:07 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/our-15-favourite-pc-games-of-2020-so-farIn Other WatersOri and the Will of the WispsMegaquariumDesperados 3Tales From Off-Peak CityIndieSigns Of The SojournerBestest BestsYes, Your GraceFeatureMonster TrainBlockbusterValorantRimWorldDestiny 2Streets Of Rage 4OstrivGears TacticsHardspace: Shipbreaker

Halloo, gentle reader. Since we're half way through the entire year of 2020 (yet somehow it is also still March?), we decided to run down, lasso and tie up some of our favourite games from the last six months, and force them into a nice list for you.

2020 still has plenty of new PC games to come, of course, but these are the ones closest to our little hearts so far. We've got strategy, we've got card games, we've got systematic reclamation of scraped spaceships. And, since Nate Crowley is one of the contributors to this list, we've got fish. Statistically speaking, there's bound to be at least one game on here that you'll ruddy bloody love too!

Read more

]]>
Podcast: The year 2018 is sinking and only 3 games can be savedhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/podcast-the-year-2018-is-sinking-and-only-3-games-can-be-savedRPSThu, 13 Dec 2018 19:00:24 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/podcast-the-year-2018-is-sinking-and-only-3-games-can-be-savedStory RichPodcastCelesteDragon Ball FighterZReturn of the Obra DinnAssassin's Creed OdysseyThe HexThe RPS Electronic Wireless showMegaquariumAshen

Look out. The year 2018 is going down in a storm. There are hundreds of games aboard, running, jumping, trying their best to survive the maelstrom. But there’s only one tiny lifeboat, and only enough room for three games. It falls on the sorry shoulders of the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, to decide which trio of games clamber onto the life raft and which games drown and become lost to history.

Read more

]]>
Halloween 2018 Special: round up of very nice thingshttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/halloween-2018-special-round-up-of-very-nice-thingsAlice BellWed, 31 Oct 2018 09:00:02 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/halloween-2018-special-round-up-of-very-nice-thingsOri and the Blind Forest: Definitive EditionPriceless PlayFree gamesHalloween 2018MegaquariumWashBearAssassin's Creed OdysseyIndieLarian StudiosDragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive AgeFeatureBandai Namco EntertainmentPaw Patrol: On A Roll!RPGMoon StudiosTwice CircledDouble Fine ProductionsDivinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive EditionHot Pot PanicSquare EnixUbisoftParkasaurusSoulcalibur VIMicrosoft StudiosUbisoft QuebecPlatformerGlumberlandOoblets

I bet you thought that what with all the spooky stuff we’ve had on the site over the past while, we were leading up to a big horror extravaganza of Halloween-themed stuff today. “Someone is going to use the word ‘spoopy’,” you thought. Well you’re wrong!

All our special Halloween features are about nice things today. We are wall-to-wall niceness. Dare I say suffocatingly cute. Guaranteed no fun jump scares built into the code of the website as you scroll down. The only thing you have to fear is being so relaxed that you fall asleep and nap for too long and then you wake up with a fuzzy brain and aren’t able to do anything except nap again. Oh no! You were going to make dinner but now you’ll just have to eat a can of pringles and a bag of Bitsa Wispa! Let RPS be the light you turn on when your living room is a bit dark and you think the bag on the sofa is actually a monster about to kill you. And you turn on the light and you're like, phew, it's okay, it's just the replacement Bitsa Wispa I bought from Tesco. Everything is okay.

To start, here is a big post rounding up lots of sweet, cute, or otherwise lovely things we’ve written or made or talked about on the site for the last few months.

Read more

]]>
Mellowing out with management gameshttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/mellowing-out-with-management-gamesFraser BrownFri, 19 Oct 2018 16:00:22 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/mellowing-out-with-management-gamesFeatureBanishedParkasaurusSurviving MarsReignsSimulationStrategyPlanet CoasterMegaquariumFrostpunkReigns: Game of ThronesCities: SkylinesStardew ValleyReigns: Her Majesty

My body betrayed me last month, trapping me in my bed when it wasn’t sending me rushing to my poor, overworked loo. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t work and so I turned to management games to take my mind off the virus squatting inside me. Juggling budgets, disasters and production chains might not sound particularly relaxing, but there’s also a swathe of low-pressure sims that serve as a brilliant panacea for stress.

Read more

]]>
Wot I Think: Megaquariumhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/megaquarium-reviewFraser BrownWed, 10 Oct 2018 13:00:42 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/megaquarium-reviewReviewsSimulationTwice CircledMegaquariumWot I Think

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. 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. So excited was I to display my new eels, I dropped them into a tank that already had a few underwater residents. Disaster ensued.

Read more

]]>
The Tuesday Matinee: Highlights from the RPS Video Departmenthttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/videos-you-might-have-missedAsh LiguoriTue, 18 Sep 2018 12:00:10 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/videos-you-might-have-missedFeatureBlockbusterShadow of the Tomb RaiderToxic GamesVideoQ.U.B.E. 2SpyPartyPuzzleTwice CircledChris HeckerCrystal DynamicsSquare EnixEidos-MontrealMegaquariumAction AdventureStrategyDragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Have you been checking in on the Rock Paper Shotgun Video Department? It has its very own video corner on the site where everything is collected. But in case you missed it, I'm going to round up our moving picture delights from the last week. From life-consuming RPGs to fish prisons, we covered a lot of bases.

Read more

]]>
What are we all playing this weekend?https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-to-play-this-weekend-90Alice O'ConnorSat, 15 Sep 2018 09:00:22 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-to-play-this-weekend-90BlockbusterPlaying This WeekendIndieMegaquariumUnavowedDragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Dear RPS, Hullo everyone! Dashing off a quick postcard from my hols. Ate three sticks of rock for breakfast today. Have started wearing a hat. Sand's everywhere. Margo did it again. Sophia says she's going to kill Judith. Visited the world's largest dairy statue of Alan Shearer; have bought you a lewd souvenir. And you wouldn't believe what we found while diving in the bay - or the noise it made ha ha! All my love to Dottie, and please spoil the cats rotten for me.

Warmest regards, A

p.s. What are you playing this weekend? Here's what we're clicking on!

Read more

]]>
Fish tycoon Megaquarium splashes out in Septemberhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fish-tycoon-megaquarium-splashes-out-in-septemberBrendan CaldwellFri, 17 Aug 2018 11:49:49 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fish-tycoon-megaquarium-splashes-out-in-septemberTwice CircledSimulations-s-s-shark!Megaquarium

Why did the fish stop arguing with the barnacle?

Because she didn’t like to coral.

Why did the shark always consult his horoscope?

He was the terror of the Pisces.

Why was the shipwreck annoyed with its partner?

It had crabs.

Okay so Megaquarium is a fishkeeping tycoon game from the makers of Big Pharma and it’s coming out on September 13.

Read more

]]>
Megaquarium - a theme park management with FISH!https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/megaquarium-announcedPhilippa WarrMon, 03 Apr 2017 10:34:42 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/megaquarium-announcedTim WicksteedStrategyMegaquariumTwice Circled

FISH FISH FISH FISH! Oh goodness, I have zero chill when it comes to fish. That is going to make writing about Megaquarium [official site] - a theme park management game from Big Pharma creator Tim Wicksteed, where you run your own aquarium - difficult because mostly I just want to tell you everything I think about fish at any given moment. I will try to rein it in so I can get this news post up efficiently.

Read more

]]>
Texts from Rezzedhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/texts-from-rezzedAlice O'ConnorThu, 30 Mar 2017 12:39:35 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/texts-from-rezzedBlockbusterIndieEGX Rezzed 2017Oh My GodheadsMegaquariumScanner SombreKnights and BikesEverythingtexts from...

EGX Rezzed 2017 is now underway in That London, filling Tobacco Dock [nb: offers neither boat trips nor fags -ed.] with games, talks, and lights for three days. We're Rezzed's official "media partner" so we've dispatched Pip, Adam, and Graham (and, soon, Alec) to poke around, host some talks, interview some developers, look proud of our 'Cave of Wonders' showcase, cast a live pod, and go to the pub on official RPS business. To slack off, in other words. To ensure they continue generating content while on this holiday, I'm making them send me updates throughout their day.

Read more

]]>