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Great game but needs work
I’ve been playing this game for about 1 or 2 months and have progressed in game very fast, But have gotten stuck at the location “lost seas” for 2 weeks. I have reset fishing XP and have done whatever I can to get past it, but that area is basically where the game stops you.
Epic items are only available pretty much by paying with real non in game money, (except for like the first 2)
Bosses seemed to be hard at first but now they are easy to catch once you have reset your XP. Game also needs to throw in more events where you can obtain more rare fish such as the Hydrus and the Hammoth from the halloween and Christmas events. Also, everybody is wondering where the guy that roasted you about your boat in the first few areas has gone. Where is he? If he does not come about later in the game, it would be great to add him back in for storyline purposes.
Thank you, and please consider some of the following!Show lessBenjamin Pett
Was good, but...
I have hit 2 massive walls in the game that prevent any progression whatsoever. After the 12th zone, everything gets idiotically expensive and after 2 weeks, I’m 1% of the way there, primarily because offline income is only based on upgrades and not crew and items as well. Also the 31st quest is to get 10 crew, however even getting 5 without paying the devs is a challenge. Since the gems you pay for the crew doubles every time you buy one, and it’s a premium currency only available from quests (and the lucky wheel) that quest is basically impossible
Edit- pay wall moved back an area, now watching ads for bonuses doesn’t give you the reward. Add a way to get gems from normal gameplay (ad free) and also fix the arena (I’ve played this game for almost a year and people get a ridiculous amount more money in the 6-minute tournaments than I get in normal gameplay - their money is trillions upon trillions more - I get 10 billion in a tournament, 100 nonillion in normal gameplay, and they get 13 septendecillion - which has somewhere around 23 more zeroes after it than 100 nonillion) and this gets 5 stars.
Edit - game freezes a lot nowShow lesshigviygfiuhg
Love this game but don’t force me to use my gems
I really love this game I’ve been playing everyday for almost a year now and the main reason I love it is because I can choose when to watch ads which I’m willing to do to enhance my game. But don’t force me to spend 8 gems to max multiple my away earnings... That’s so annoying because collecting gems in the game isn’t an easy process (unless you buy them with real money) this is especially true when you want to get more crew members they require so many gems to get a new member when you have a good amount of members established. My current cost for a new member is in the 2000s ranges for gems and watching an ad for the spinner yields 2 or 3 gems and the random chest yields 1-12 but you need to watch an ad for it and they don’t show up in the water consistently... You can see how difficult that is to collect gems and you need gems to upgrade anything! Items and crew members ... seriously please revert this change...Show lessGosh boss
Needs gem confirmation and curve adjustment
There REALLY needs to be a confirmation on anything that costs gems, because I keep accidentally hitting buttons I didne’t mean to and spending my gems!
For example, I was saving up for a new crew member, but when I went to use a crew perk, I accidentally hit the “upgrade” button right next to it and spent 600 gems on that upgrade. That wasn’t even the first time I accidentally did that on that exact crew member.
The money curve on the last 3 fishing spots and late-game boat upgrades seems INSANE compared to previous locations. The cost jumps, like, 4 or 5 figures, which is way more than the previous curve.
Likewise, mission 48 randomlly requires an astronomical 3 million exp to complete, while the mission just before had WAY, WAY lower completion requirements. (for reference, I had less than 200,000 exp when I was given that mission)
Also, I’ve been getting a glitch where I can’t X out of an ad after it finishes (It seems to happen most often on the ads which say “thank you for watching” at the end) and so I have to restart the app which deletes all the money I was trying to multiply.Show lessSamiamrg7
Fun addictive game, but...
I honestly have enjoyed this game for the past six weeks. It is one of those addictive screen scratcher games that makes you keep coming back. Unfortunately it has had its lifespan with me six weeks in now. I have almost 8.7 Quintillion dollars and it keeps getting more ridiculous. A fish that was once worth $50 is now worth 639 billion to 2 trillion dollars in value. Just a little unrealistic... and due to the extreme goals of going from four quadrillion dollars to 20 quintillion dollars, just to move to the next ocean to fish from, i’m suddenly bored and done with this game.
A note to the creators/developers: chill out on the unrealistic values. Don’t make me lose all of my boat statuses just to claim fishing experience. Way too many ads that are the same over and over again.
A note to future players to consider: keep your fingers clean and dust free. Make sure you have a screen protector because you rub and will scratch and edge lines in your screen or screensaver by playing this game.Show lessPhil Folger
Just some adjustments
I love this idle game, it is really fun, but when it comes down to it I think that buying crew members is too expensive, the only way to get a decent amount of gems is buying them in the store and not everyone can do that. Another thing is that 4 items isn’t enough to equip I was thinking maybe 5 or 6, and another is that the goals that take like forever to do should give more gems like 25 or something because why even do them if you are only getting 10 for every goal done, and that isn’t enough to pay for crew members. So other than these little tweaks that I am sure are possible to add, the game is really fun and competitive. Oh and one last thing the tournaments should first place you with other people who are at an equal level as you so you at least have a better chance at getting first place, because it’s not fair when the same person gets almost 1 quadrillion in 6 minutes.Show lessOnlivious Fusion
Fantastic concept, but a little ham fisted
This is an absolutely awesome idea for an idle game and one that i think could be done even better! My main gripes are two fold
1. You can’t get more fishermen without using the premium currency. This isn’t awful, but the other fishermen are such an essential mechanic that it kinda hurts that there’s no other way to get them
2. The ads and facebook connectivity are shoved down your throat. Yes, almost all the ads are optional, however, almost every random bonus and mission has an option for an ad boost. Again, not a deal breaker, but i’m just not a fan of having ads be such an integral part, and i assume late game it’s the only way to make the random bonuses worth it, but i’ll have to get back to you on that. Considering using my throwaway facebook account just to get a little bonus here and there
Otherwise, i adore the concept of a fishing idle game. Makes for a great aesthetic and makes for a calming little side project. I play a ton of idle games so i’m glad i came across this one, but i just wish i could like it more. Still, if you wanna pull a toy-blast-to-toon-blast and make something very similar but even more optimized for player enjoyment, i’d download that in a heartbeat! You have something great here and i wanna see more for sure <3Show lesspandash99
It’s okay
I read a review that said that swiping gets boring after a while and I found out that that’s very true. I’ve had this game for a few days and I’ve gotten really pretty far in the game but swiping and swiping and swiping gets boring after a while. Not to mention to gain fishing experience you have to go back to the very beginning of the map and restart all over again. It would probably be more fun if you were getting new fish and new upgrades and new items each time you went to a new location, and you didn’t have to go back to old locations. I’ve had to go back to the same old locations four times now and it’s so boring swiping and catching the same fish every single time until I get back to where I was in the map and I can afford to move to a new area on the map and ONLY THEN will I find new fish to catch and for that short while swiping is fun but then eventually I will have to go back to the beginning of the map once more and catch the same old boring fish.Show lesschsufivkak
Pay wall
So this game starts out very fun and exciting and progress is at a good pace. Not to fast to have finished the game in a day or so but not to slow to feel like you are grinding every time you open the app......until you reach the mission to hire ten crew members. The only way to get that many gems is to buy them. Making finishing the game next to impossible unless you pay a large sum of real money to get crew members. While I understand that money helps developers pay bills and live and keep making games but at one point crew member number six takes 445 gems meaning crew member 7 will take near 600 something gems so on and so on. To the point that you will need to pay over 100 real dollars or what ever currency you use. Which in my mind for a phone app game is just plain robbery. So if you want a fun little game that you never intend to finish unless you wanna swipe your credit card a few times by all means download this game, but if you are like me and have doubts about a phone app game costing more than say 3 bucks stay away from this one because it will leave you disappointed and frustrated.Show lesssquidink0609
Needs work, could be a really good game.
So I do like the game but there are some big things I feel need fixing. Number one being the fact if you want fishing experience (at least any to really matter.) it resets all of your boat upgrades, upgraded fishing stuff, and how far along you are on the map, which is really dumb. I clicked the button by mistake and honestly I’m thinking over uninstalling the game over it (or at least timing a very long break from it.), it took a lot of time to get as fair as I was and I’m really not sure I want to waste more time on it, very frustrating. A game should be fun, not annoy you with something like this. 2) I really feel if I’m looking at my crew, items, map, etc. the game should pause not keep going so you’re missing a bunch of items and fish. I had a few other reasons but I honestly can’t recall them all. It could be a really good game if it was worked on more and these things were fixed. If it gets updated and it seems better I’ll change my rating but for now I will not be playing for some time. I do hope this game does well those!Show lessSaphireJames
