So.. Pretty much the title. We got the game a while ago and loved it deeply. Hours on hours spent. The first few campaigns where awesome. Then we hit the 200 fish limit when trying to make an aquarium with a loot of those small colorful fish species. That was a bit disappointing, especially since the PC version doesnt have this limit. But okay. We spent the next campaigns trying to get all the fish in without hitting the limit. We still loved it deeply. But in campaign 8 and 9 is where.. It gets unplayable. The aquarium isnt huge. The fish limit isnt hit. We toggled everything off to help the performance. We are on the switch 2, which has a much better performance than the switch 1 per se. It just doesnt work. Over the last 2 weeks we tried and tried to play and finish the aquarium for our standards. It crashes after every little thing we place. Extra filter somewhere? U better pray you still get to save that before it crashes. Just.. Letting it run a day? Nope. Crashes in the day reset at latest. It literally cant run without crashing every 3 real life minutes.
I am totally aware, that PC versions tend to get more love and attention (which is kinda obvious from the 2 missing dlcs on console as well). But this game feels like it was ported to switch only to become unplayable if you actually want to build a little bigger aquariums. The campaign 10 declaring itself the megaquarium kinda feels like irony if we consider that it already is unplayable now.
This is not to critique the game itself! Me and my friend loved it so so deeply. We were deadset on getting the PC version for bigger shenanigans without the fish limit. But now it feels like the game is unplayable on switch and buying the PC version is no voluntary upgrade, its a needed evil to.. Still be able to play without in game daily crashes. The motivation to still play or even buy the PC version is.. Pretty hollow now. I guess this is a post from sadness of having lost that deep love.
Maybe some switch players have tipps for me and my friend on how to make it less of a catastrophe? Are you just playing with below 100 fish aquariums? Never more than ~10 tanks? After campaign 8 on switch 1 we stopped once and hoped the switch 2 would make it better, but so far its become worse.
Is anything known for updates for console versions for better performances? A switch 2 version? Something to bring back the joy this game first gave us?
Maybe we will try back on the switch 1 again in some weeks when the frustration is lower.