2025Totsuca Chuo
- Videos
- 54
- Creators
- 41
1 - 4 players100 - 200 minVery heavy weight

2021Totsuca Chuo
Mainly reviews. Aqua Garden is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 15 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In Aqua Garden, you're the owner of an aquarium and want to stock its six tanks with a variety of sea life, but you have a limited amount of funds and only one employee on hand to place the fish in the tanks. Do your best to outshine the other aquariums in town! During a round, the player farthest back on the perimeter of the shared board takes the next turn, moving as many spaces as they want to an empty space and taking the action of that space. If you stop on an advertising space, you receive funds based on what's currently in your tanks. If you stop on a sea creature space, you take them all, move your single employee 1-3 spaces clockwise on your aquarium board, then place the creatures in one or both tanks adjacent to the employee. Each tank has only 4 units of oxygen available, so you can't add creatures to a tank that would consume more oxygen than this. You can add one seaweed to each tank to add oxygen. You must also observe other placement restrictions, such as keeping sharks separate and you can pay to purchase creatures, seaweed, and coral from the sea board. If you've circled the board, you wait for other players to finish, then start a new round, with players moving out in the order that they arrived. After the game ends, players score points for the milestones achieved, funds remaining, order in which they finished, and the sets of creatures they've collected in each tank.
Aqua Garden has 27 videos from 22 creators: 15 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2022 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Aqua Garden" by Steph Hodge, which runs 54 min. For a quicker teach, "Reboxing: Aqua Garden" by I Play Orange runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Aqua Garden (Trilogy Edition) Review: Am I A Clownfish To You?" by The Dice Tower. 13 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Aqua Garden - playthrough (2p)" by Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo).
If you like it, try Sweet Lands, Ostia, Rosalie and Ostia: Pirates, also by Totsuca Chuo.
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2025Totsuca Chuo
1 - 4 players100 - 200 minVery heavy weight
2027Totsuca Chuo, Higabito (ヒガビト)
1 - 4 players120 - 180 minVery heavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Aqua Garden, you're the owner of an aquarium and want to stock its six tanks with a variety of sea life, but you have a limited amount of funds and only one employee on hand to place the fish in the tanks. Do your best to outshine the other aquariums in town! During a round, the player farthest back on the perimeter of the shared board takes the next turn, moving as many spaces as they want to an empty space and taking the action of that space. If you stop on an advertising space, you receive funds based on what's currently in your tanks. If you stop on a sea creature space, you take them all, move your single employee 1-3 spaces clockwise on your aquarium board, then place the creatures in one or both tanks adjacent to the employee. Each tank has only 4 units of oxygen available, so you can't add creatures to a tank that would consume more oxygen than this. You can add one seaweed to each tank to add oxygen. You must also observe other placement restrictions, such as keeping sharks separate and you can pay to purchase creatures, seaweed, and coral from the sea board. If you've circled the board, you wait for other players to finish, then start a new round, with players moving out in the order that they arrived. After the game ends, players score points for the milestones achieved, funds remaining, order in which they finished, and the sets of creatures they've collected in each tank.
Designer
Totsuca Chuo
Artists
Tatsuki Asano, Rocinante Urabe, 別府さい (Sai Beppu)
Publisher
uchibacoya
Categories
Mechanics