Rolling in the Reef

No control over the difficulty - the game decides for you. Automatic thumbs-down.

Very good tutorial but plenty to be discovered. Excellent dice with FISH grid defense strategy game with rounds as the limiting factor, but you can take plenty of turns, only when being attacked is there urgency/ Different fish types have different # of pips range. Earn your way through levels that will add more stuff and weekly challenge is also different then the normally available game variants. Medium learning curve I suppose, but I highly recommend it! As you play it will adjust difficulty after each game so if you keep losing it will get easier, and you still get experience points when you lose. You lose if you don't make the minimum points required by the end of all the allotted rounds OR your main center fish gets destroyed.

An enjoyable game from the Brain Good Games folks, this is a fun puzzle type game that works really well in short bursts. You can play a quick game or two (or more, of course) when you have a bit of time and don't want to commit a couple hours. The game does a good job of scaling the difficulty up as you get familiar with the rules, maintaining a good level of challenge. There are a bunch of things to unlock as you play, introducing new elements over time and keeping things fresh.

Simple and fun

I recommend this game to fans of euro board games looking for a very nice digital single player take on them. Similar vibes to Solar Settlers but the soundtrack feels less on point/theme than Solar Settlers and the gameplay while similar is also pretty different. I enjoy both but the soundtrack and visuals of Solar Settlers is superior. I'd love to see this game revisited by the dev someday with a soundtrack that has a more cohesive feel to it and more of an underwater vibe and possibly tweak the visuals just a little.

This game doesn't stand out too much in BrainGoodGames' library, being much like their other games, and I almost gave it a thumbs down for that reason. But I kept playing and it's growing on me. I still recommend checking out their other offerings first, especially Solar Settlers and Axes & Acres, but this is still a pretty good game for the money, especially on sale. [hr][/hr] EDIT: Oh [i]boy[/i] did this game grow on me. I wrote the above 2.3 hours in and now I've got ten times that. Definitely NOT a thumbs down. My only complaint is that it's far too easy, even with all the different schools of fish; I didn't lose a single game until I hit 85 wins or so. So I definitely recommend using placement matches to skip the easy levels unless you're very new to this kind of game. I still recommend Solar Settlers first, but this would be a fine second game. This game also seems a bit more casual-friendly than Solar Settlers (my mom, who's not a gamer, would probably like this game much more).