Most Relaxing New PC Game: Drawquarium Turns Your Doodles Into Living Fish
A new PC game that launched on Steam on 13 November 2026 is winning over players with one of the simplest ideas in years: draw a fish, drop it into a tank, and watch your own drawing swim away. Drawquarium is a relaxing aquarium sandbox where the creatures in the tank are the ones you sketch yourself, and it arrived on PC after building up more than 200,000 wishlists and millions of views on social media.
The game comes from solo developer byKaleb, the studio name of Kaleb Lechowski, a 3D artist who works in the film industry. The idea began in a very personal place: he wanted to bring his children's drawings to life. German publisher rokaplay, based in Darmstadt, picked the project up, and the response was far bigger than anyone expected. A single post showing the game attracted 100,000 likes and nearly 3 million views, and the wider response on X reached around 9 million people organically.
Image: byKaleb / Steam
At its heart, Drawquarium is a creative sandbox, not a management game with strict goals. You draw your own fish and plants with the built-in drawing tools, using simple shapes or templates for inspiration, and then place them in your aquarium, where they come to life. You do not need to be an artist to enjoy it: a selection of ready-made fish is included for players who would rather watch than draw, and you can also upload any PNG image and see it become part of your tank.
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Your Fish Have Lives of Their Own
Once your creatures are in the water, they start behaving like a small community. They interact with each other, forming friendships and rivalries, and they can even find a soulmate and have cute little babies that join the tank. You feed them and raise them, and as you play you collect golden fish scales, which unlock new decorations and tools. The aquarium itself is yours to shape as well: change the way the sand looks, adjust the lighting, and place decorative rocks and driftwood until the tank feels like a tiny living world of your own making.
Plants matter just as much as fish, and Drawquarium lets you draw your own vegetation and place it wherever you like. If you would rather draw sea mines or skyscrapers than seaweed, nothing stops you. That playful freedom is the point. There is no combat, no fail state, and no timed input anywhere, so the tank is a calm place to spend time rather than another challenge to beat.
Wallpaper Mode Turns Your Tank Into Your Desktop
One of the game's most unusual features is Desktop Wallpaper Mode. Instead of closing the game when you go back to work, you can turn your aquarium into an animated desktop wallpaper, so your creations stay right there with you. Whether you are crunching numbers, browsing a forum or listening to a podcast, you can observe, feed and play with your fish directly from the desktop. Your fish keep you company instead of waiting behind a closed window.
The game also includes a small set of tools for focus and unwinding, including a journal for your thoughts, a task manager for organising your day, and a timer to help you stay on track. Combined with the wallpaper mode, it is aimed at players who want a cozy little space on their PC, somewhere calm to take a mindful break between work, study, or a long gaming session.
No Combat, No Grinding, No Pressure
The Steam page is unusually honest about who the game is and is not for. It is for players who love cozy, relaxing games, enjoy being creative, and appreciate handmade indie games. It is not for players expecting action: as the developer puts it, think of Drawquarium as the opposite of GTA. There are no loot boxes, no complicated upgrade systems, and no endless grinding. There are things to unlock, but the progression stays light, and the game never constantly tells you what to do.
Price, Demo and PC Requirements
Drawquarium is available now on PC via Steam, priced at $11.99, with a limited-time 20 percent launch discount bringing it down to $9.59 until 27 November 2026. The same pricing applies in other regions at 11.99 euros and 9.99 pounds. A free demo is still available, and the developer recommends trying it first, especially on older hardware. Progress from the demo carries over into the full game, which adds more content and unlockable features.
On PC, the game needs a 64-bit installation of Windows 10, a quad-core Intel i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 processor (or equivalent), 8 GB of RAM, a GTX 1060 or RX 580 graphics card with 6 GB of VRAM, DirectX 12, and 700 MB of available storage. The game supports eight interface languages, including English, French, German, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. For a small passion project made by one person, Drawquarium has made a remarkably big splash, and its launch is a reminder that the most memorable game ideas are often the simplest ones.
Source: Steam — Save 20% on Drawquarium on Steam — https://store.steampowered.com/app/4045480/Drawquarium/
