FathomVerse User Reviews

FathomVerse

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This game hasRelaxing and peaceful experience

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This game hasOpportunity to contribute to ocean research

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This game hasStunning visuals and immersive environment

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This game hasEducational content on marine life

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This game hasResponsive and helpful development team

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This game hasSimple and intuitive gameplay

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This game hasCustomizable audio and visuals

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This game hasInteresting citizen science adventure

Negative highlights

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This game hasBuggy and inconsistent user interface

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This game hasUnclear instructions and onboarding process

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This game hasSlow and tedious core gameplay loop

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This game hasLack of ability to re-examine animal images

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This game hasInconsistent controls between different sections

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This game hasIncomplete or lacking identification guides

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This game hasInability to progress or save progress

Top reviews

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Aspirational project and fun app

I’m biased but I think this app is amazing. The team that’s put it together, the mission, the potential transformational outcomes, the high-quality execution… I could go on. Try it and join the FathomVerse community!

Kakalacky

7 months ago

Missed opportunity

Interesting idea but incredibly boring and buggy

Zach Ferris

7 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Zach, thank you so much for playing! I'm really sorry to hear that your experience wasn't as fun as you expected. I'd love to hear more about your experience so we can continue to improve FathomVerse and iron out any bugs, please email fathomverse@mbari.org if you're open to it!

5/5 !!!’n

v fun, but there are a few bugs. just minor stuff, music will sometimes trigger and layer over the usual background track, and its very loud. also, some text ran off screen in the intro.

Exotic_Butters_are_life

7 months ago

Response from developer

We're thrilled that you're enjoying FathomVerse and we really appreciate your input. We're always looking for ways to make the game better, so if you have more suggestions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Our Discord community is a great place to connect with other players and share your thoughts with us.

Not ready for prime time

I was super excited to play but found the experience unintuitive and frustrating. After playing a couple rounds I got stuck in a feedback loop and was unable to pick a new species to train on. It didn’t save my previous game either. I’m only leaving this feedback because I know it’ll help you improve what’s sure to be an awesome game and valuable science tool eventually!

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Undercurrent007

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for playing! I'm sorry to hear that you had a frustrating experience. It sounds like you may have encountered a bug with saving your progress and I'd love to get more details so we can make sure everything is working properly. Please share your experience with us at https://www.fathomverse.game/support and we'll be in touch!

cute ocean critters

super relaxing and I love discovering little ocean animals

Amy Malia

7 months ago

Love this game! 🐠🪼 🦐 (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) 🪸🦑🦈

It’s very nice and relaxing and also a fun way to learn all your sea-crit basics! If you’re like me and you forget things quickly it’s easy to check back at the basic information for the animal groups. It also feels nice to be able to contribute to science some even as someone fairly uneducated and inept in marine biology. I may not be able to totally ID something or catch close mistakes but you can still help it along quite a bit, and eliminate pictures from an ID too if you feel solidly confident about it. Definitely a game I’ll keep coming back to!

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charleaf

7 months ago

Great game!

Engaging, mesmerizing, and soothing. Great way to relax while helping the scientific community.

FCWA83

7 months ago

Calm but interesting

It’s such a peaceful and pretty game, but you also get to learn more about undersea life and help with investigating the ocean! The creators are also very responsive and helpful.

Awlwren

7 months ago

Relaxing and Interesting!

FathomVerse is really relaxing and fun! I love drifting along the ocean currents, listening to the (customizable) deep ocean sounds, and collecting cool pictures of deep sea creatures. Plus, I love knowing that just by playing, I am contributing to ocean research by training the AI to recognize these animals! FathomVerse absolutely deserves its five stars!

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PotatoM!

7 months ago

Amazing Game That Also Helps Science

I love playing this game. Seeing photos of real deep sea animals, getting pointers on recognizing animal groups, and knowing that in expedition mode I am actually being a citizen scientist while having fun! Great combo! Highly recommend for anyone who loves the ocean!

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