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Platforms and updates

Where Fishies runs today, what's coming, and how each version keeps itself up to date.

Where Fishies runs

Fishies is a live aquarium, not a boxed release: the web version is the one build everyone is always on, and every native app opens the same server-authoritative aquarium as the browser. What ships and where changes as the alpha grows; this page always describes the current, real state, not the plan.

Desktop

The desktop app installs on Windows, macOS and Linux from the download links on the game's site. It runs the same build inside its own window and adds a proper launcher, without changing what the browser already gets right. In the desktop app, pressing Escape on the aquarium with nothing open asks whether you want to quit the game.

  • Windows: x64, 32-bit (x86) and ARM64 builds, for Windows 10 and 11.
  • macOS: one universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, also on the Mac App Store.
  • Linux: AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages, still experimental; a virtual machine or an NVIDIA GPU without its proprietary driver can leave graphics running on slow software rendering.

Mobile

The Android, iPhone and iPad apps share the same aquarium as everywhere else.

  • Android: Google Play, a direct APK download, and an itch.io build, for Android 7.0 (API level 24) and up.
  • iPhone and iPad: the App Store, for iOS 15 and up.

Other storefronts

Beyond the game's own download page, Fishies is starting to reach other storefronts.

  • itch.io: the desktop and Android builds are published there today.
  • Steam: planned, not yet available; there is no store page yet.

Keeping up to date

Nobody has to go looking for a new version.

  • The desktop app checks for updates itself and installs them without a separate download; the file you first downloaded keeps working as the updater. While it is open it also looks for a newer version every half hour and when you come back to its window, and offers a Restart button once it is ready.
  • Google Play, itch.io and the browser all serve the current build automatically. The web version needs nothing at all: reloading the page is enough.

In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/platforms · Fishies 0.8.7

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