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Aquaria
Developer Bit Blot, LLC
Aquaria is an action-adventure game designed by Alec Holowka and Derek Yu, who published the game in 2007 as an independent game company Bit Blot. The side-scrolling game follows Naija, an aquatic humanoid woman, as she explores the underwater world of Aquaria. Along her journey, she learns about the history of the world she inhabits as well as her own past. The gameplay focuses on a combination of swimming,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 60 · most liked first(indie game: the movie dropped in 2012, and even accounting for leadup every featured game fits entirely in this window, shit was waaaay different in 00's indie, that was more stuff like Gish and Aquaria)
unlabelledView post →Largely forgotten due to age, but Aquaria still holds up great for a nearly 20-year old game. Made even better by the community-updated Open Source Edition. Updated for modern machines and has an in-game mod browser and even a couple big community-made story expansions. github.com/AquariaOSE
unlabelledView post →If you see this, quote post a game with a 10/10 soundtrack Fuck there are too many. And most of them are just Squeenix RPGs... So I'm not gonna go with obvious ones. Let's dig deeeeeep into the indie game "tickle trunk" (Canadian reference). Aquaria infiniteammo.bandcamp.com/track/the-tr...
unlabelledView post →Let's remember Silksong is: -Polished -Incredibly animated -Intentionally challenging (esp. bosses) -An indie game I'd say: -Axiom Verge 2 -Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights -Aquaria -Shadow Complex -Dust: An Elysian Tail -Salt and Sanctuary -The Swapper -Owlboy -Iconoclasts -Tevi
unlabelledView post →If you listen to just one soundtrack from my latest list, it should be this one. And while you're at it, play Aquaria! It's a lovely game.
unlabelledView post →TONIGHT AT 6 PM CST: It's another dono-funded request stream, and an old indie game I've never played for more than 20 minutes: I'm diving into Aquaria and finally giving it a real shot! YOU can keep donating to/commissioning @mayuzane.bsky.social on kofi to request MORE stuff! twitch.tv/kerbumble
unlabelledView post →An older piece I'm still pleased with, for one of my favourite games -- Aquaria
unlabelledView post →2026 Climate Toolkit Symposium. Oct. 28 - 30. Duke Farms in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Museums, public gardens, #zoos, #aquaria, science centers and nature institutions have a critical role to play in the climate conversation. Details 👇 https://climatetoolkit.org/symposium/ #globalmuseum #museums #Climate #sciencecenters
unlabelledView post →📝 KEEPING SCORE FOR "AQUARIA"? ✏️ Just enter "Aquaria" as the game name when creating a match to use its dedicated score sheet. 🔗 appzerty.github.io/myscoretrack... #MyScoreTracker #BoardGames #MobileApp #PlayStore #AppStore
unlabelledView post →Naija Pin in polymer [Handmade] by MiaQc - Aquaria (Video Game) archiveofourown.org/works/80103826 via @ao3org
unlabelledView post →As of today, Aquaria (2007) is the 342th best game of all time according to me, directly below Never Stop Sneakin' and directly above Mr Shifty. It is part of Tier 15. There are 25 tiers and 574 games in the list #PixelRankings
unlabelledView post →27. Aquaria (store.steampowered.com/app/24420/Aq...) i know that this game has a bit of a stain due to alec, but it holds such a meaningful place in my heart. The first metroidvania that really clicked with me, I spent _hours_ playing this, finding every corner. i still listen to the soundtrack. 🥲
unlabelledView post →Oh, Aquaria, mermaid metroidvania store.steampowered.com/app/24420/Aq...
unlabelledView post →Aquaria is a lovely indie game from the early Steam days. I still think about songs The Traveler and Undiscovered Waters. Was happy to see they got OCRemixes in the past few years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvS...
unlabelledView post →As of today, Mr Shifty (2017) is the 318th best game of all time according to me, directly below Aquaria and directly above Offspring Fling. It is part of Tier 32. There are 48 tiers and 541 games in the list. #PixelRankings
unlabelledView post →I feel like I'm getting closer... Derek Yu did use the term metroidvania in 2007... but it was in his review of Valdis Story (not his game of course)... now I have to comb through Aquaria interviews to see if he self-attributed that way or only used "Metroidly"
unlabelledView post →Thank you! ^_^ Aquaria is one of my favourite games! And possibly the one that really made me aware of metroidvanias as a distinct genre! It's also a big influence on the game that I'm making at the moment! ^_^
unlabelledView post →Great list, surprised to see Aquaria, underrated game
unlabelledView post →【Rotaeno × maimai でらっくす Collab Confirmed!】 What Σ( ° △ °)？！ The super-famous game cabinet “maimai でらっくす” from that planet is coming to arcades all across Aquaria? Amazing! Now we’ll be able to play both “Rotaeno” and “maimai でらっくす” at the arcade! ★>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
unlabelledView post →"I'd like to know how character designs at miHoYo come about. What is the process of creating a character from scratch? Which game designers are responsible for doing this?" Aquaria: There's no single fixed formula for this. In most of our projects, we have something resembling a council—
unlabelledView post →Can Tomas Holek do it again? SETI is my new #1 game of all time so when I saw Aquaria for a great price, I had to go for it. Excited for my first play!
unlabelledView post →The guys try to make the perfect home for their lionfish in Aquaria from @capstone-games.com 🐠 Join them as they strive for "Full Filtration!" in this combo-tastic tableau builder. #boardgame #fish youtu.be/fzvnqeDNkb4
unlabelledView post →QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack... Gotta be Aquaria, a hidden gem of a metroidvania with a gorgeous soundtrack.
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X is a brawler that has a bunch of combos programmed in so you can play it like a Pv(many)E fighter Maybe subversive to put Wandersong and Aquaria here because they have standard action game button loadouts but the directional combos are for singing, not specials
unlabelledView post →Mass Effect is definitely a you-game! Though I wonder which of your series you'd want to see made into a big budget computer RPG. Homeworld, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Planescape Torment, Alien Legacy, Aquaria, Waking Mars, Infinifactory, Mass Effect, WoW
unlabelledView post →Hey! Thank you for acknowledging us! No one ever does! :-) Naiad looks cool, giving me vibes of an old game, I think it was called Aquaria?
unlabelledView post →Varlet doesn't even have the one man (Fuyuki Hayashi) I trust involved (he's off making Needy Streamer Overload Rythm game), it's riffing on Monark's opening without the sauce and the development company (Aquaria) hasn't made a balanced game ever. Lowest stake Ive ever had in a furyu release.
unlabelledView post →The community did step up to do expansion/sequel content for Aquaria! If you get this unofficial update it has an in-game mod browser with that stuff availalbe.
unlabelledView post →Aquaria got decent support, too - there's a community patch that adds ultrawide support, high refresh rate graphics, and an in-game mod browser, including some expansion/story-heavy stuff.
unlabelledView post →Oh lord, Aquaria Towers came on in my playlist. Ever played Spyro 2? Godlike game and the music super good too.
unlabelledView post →Yaaaay, Sarah! I just played it—this makes me want an exploration-focused dolphin game where you have intricate 3D environments to explore with an almost metroidvania level of interconnectedness. Aquaria meets Dark Souls 1. Loved the full emissive amphora lights.
unlabelledView post →Any game? Yeah please remake Aquarium, the demake of Aquaria.
unlabelledView post →The roughest one, or the one least likely to get a result I guess, is Aquaria. A very old open source game. It had two developers, one famously died in 2019. I found their web 2.0 website www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/faq.... which luckily had a "Contact"-section. It had a company email! BUT...
unlabelledView post →Here's some Naijas I drew in my sketchbook a little while back! I was replaying the game and wanted to draw her outfits and forms I'd unlocked. Aquaria is one of my favorite games, I've been playing it since I was a kid! #aquaria #aquariagame #art #watercolor #merfolk #mermaid
unlabelledView post →Let's not discuss the other of Aquaria's devs, but I can't help but admit that I loved the game. I have a soft spot for underwater games, even if they're pretty rare and when they do exist, people think they're scary...
unlabelledView post →It won the IGF Excellence in Design (2012) and the Indiecade Trailblazer award (2020). The source code is now open source. He also created AQUARIA (with Alec Holowka), an action-adventure game involving singing, swimming in combat, in which the protagonist explores an underwater environment.
unlabelledView post →...Actually Do?", Aquaria explored many topics that aspiring game designers are curious about. If you'd like to learn more about game design, be sure to check out this video! Read the full transcription and translation on miHoYo Translation Wiki: mihoyo.fandom.com/wiki/2026_Au...
unlabelledView post →Do You Have to Be a Gaming Expert to Work as a Game Planner at miHoYo? During miHoYo's 2026 Autumn Campus Recruitment presentation tour, combat designer Ji-ge [Aquaria] visited Tsinghua University to give a special talk on game design. Starting with the question, "What Does a Game Designer...
unlabelledView post →🎲 RANDOM GAME, Aquaria (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/24420 Underwater world, ancient secrets, and self-discovery 🐚 Join Naija, a lone explorer, traveling from dark caves to sunlit oases. Uncover the truth about her... #SteamAndEpic #Aquaria #Steam #Achievements #Underwater #Compelling
unlabelledView post →Naija in Pixel Art [Commissioned Art] - MiaQc - Aquaria [Video Game] [SquidgeWorld Archive] squidgeworld.org/works/94254
unlabelledView post →It is, btw, a legit GOOD game, judging by the first couple hours supercasual. Had a few tiny nitpicks that weren't resolved by a thorough search of the menus, but this may have just jumped queue as my next proper stream game when Aquaria is done.
unlabelledView post →#Naija from #Aquaria when she lost all her life in-game.
unlabelledView post →I just fired up Strike Suit Zero to check why was it even installed in the first place (I don't remember installing it, but anyway), and I'm quite confident that the intro voice is the same as the one in Aquaria? Can anyone confirm? #videogames #voiceActing #StrikeSuitZero #Aquaria
unlabelledView post →10 AVERAGE/UNDERRATED 2000s PC GAMES WITH GREAT MUSIC 8. Aquaria by Alec Holowka Derek Yu and Alec Holowka worked together to build this beautiful underwater exploration indie game, and the gorgeous and wondrous music plays a big part in setting the tone. It's absolutely wonderful!
unlabelledView post →Unusually for a music question, this one is actually pretty easy for me! ^_^ There are many game-related pieces that I love--e.g. the music of Aquaria, or Hollow Knight. But only one (well, with variations across the series) is the theme to Quest for Glory! ^_^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9e...
unlabelledView post →Did I sequence break Aquaria? https://spectra.video/w/7Pr1eHabPBDYTxeo3veP73 https://stream.place/nolamiamada.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/nolamiamada #vtuber #vsona #goinglive #aquaria #firstplaythrough
unlabelledView post →I knew it!! Haha…actually waterscapes are crimibally underrated on RPGs despite many really beautiful ones existing in the game worlds like Aquaria, Abzu or Dave the Diver! youtube.com/watch?v=10kH...
unlabelledView post →#Aquaria has released the second trailer for #Varlet, exactly 30 days before release date. NGL, Aquaria games always has some great ideas but they are constrained by their much smaller budgets. I will still buy them though, as at least this time the production value looks really good. #Gaming #JRPG
unlabelledView post →It's that time of the week! Starting up Aquaria, a 2007 underwater Metroidvania-ish game that I've had in my library for ages but never got around to playing. Come dive with me! www.twitch.tv/captain_koebel
unlabelledView post →I am also surprised Aquaria won Snatch Game. Thought for sure Eureka would do it again.
unlabelledView post →Knowing these work on the Version 1.70 of Gish was a mistake, why did I went out of my way to get them all. Anyway, Gish is done for good now, and now I can move on to the next game I started and abandoned for this one, Aquaria
unlabelledView post →continuing Aquaria https://spectra.video/w/7Pr1eHabPBDYTxeo3veP73 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3bh3pWhq8I #vtuber #envtuber #aquaria #firstplay
unlabelledView post →finally starting Aquaria https://spectra.video/w/7Pr1eHabPBDYTxeo3veP73 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-KHMvYsQ0Q #vtuber #envtuber #aquaria #firstplay
unlabelledView post →Well, it seems Aquaria was never on Xbox 360, just had Xbox 360 controller support on Steam or something. That makes me feel better about potentially missing a game when the store closed.
unlabelledView post →Aquaria a > 15 year old action adventure game whose summary makes it sound like Ecco the Dolphin without being an actual dolphin. Bundle fodder IIRC. I probably shouldn't include it since Steam says I played 9 hours but I have zero recollection of this game.
unlabelledView post →Been playing through Aquaria and it’s a fun game but gosh I am so good at getting lost
unlabelledView post →31) Aquaria This was a game that I was first introduced to at SGDQ 2012. CyberBotX did a speedrun of it for the event, and it looked like a really fun game, so I grabbed it once I got back home. Overall a very fun game. Shame that the ending teased a sequel but we never got one.
unlabelledView post →I played a little bit of #pronty. The main character’s animation somehow lacks the charm of #aquaria ‘s paper doll feel, but I love the trash future aesthetic. Some of the waters you swim through are downright disgusting.
unlabelledView post →I am trying to contact anyone who was involved in the #Aquaria game development (Alec Holowka was the composer for it) to ask whether it’s possible to publish OST for it on the streaming services (or at least get any idea who currently owns copyright rights for it); however it’s pretty much impossible to contact anyone related due to both age of that game and events before and after passing of Alec Holowka. So if you know anyone who can answer that please let me know! #gamedev
unlabelledView post →@madargon Reminds me of the game #Aquaria.
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