Anglerfish
Professional Villains · 2022 · Horror, Action-Adventure, Dark Humor, Escape Room, Exploration
PC
Very Positive82% · 269
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About Anglerfish
“It is when our expectations are broken that we feel life the most.”
- a secret character in the game.
The fun of dying
Welcome to Anglerfish. Your secluded bar in Mols mountains. Here you will experience the true survival horror of dating, which means you will die multiple times. Every time you die, you must start the game over, but something always changes when you try again to survive your night out. Every change in your new run is handcrafted based on where and how you died. This means dying is a stimulating thing.
What will you do on your adventure?
You will try to survive your wildest night ever. To do this you must undercover the secrets hidden deep down in Anglerfish’s core by exploring every nook and cranny and solve the buried mysteries. But disturbing forcers will try to keep you from the truth, so you must be ready to fight back by blasting their heads off.
Based on a true psychological horror story
One of your friends from work is getting married. You're at his bachelor party with all of your colleagues at the bar, Anglerfish. It’s Look-a-like Thursday, so you fit in naturally with your schoolgirl uniform. You all have a friendly competition to see who will be the best man at the wedding. But your good time comes to an abrupt end, when the secrets of Anglerfish call for the last drink of the night.
Five things you should know about the game:
- You can pet the dog.
- The game only saves when you die.
- Every time you die, something changes.
- Dying can be a good thing.
- A shotgun is a great ice breaker on a date.
- Each playthrough will be a new take on the game.
- You can’t trust us.
So come with us if you want to die.
- John & Maria
Professional Villains
- a secret character in the game.
The fun of dying
Welcome to Anglerfish. Your secluded bar in Mols mountains. Here you will experience the true survival horror of dating, which means you will die multiple times. Every time you die, you must start the game over, but something always changes when you try again to survive your night out. Every change in your new run is handcrafted based on where and how you died. This means dying is a stimulating thing.
What will you do on your adventure?
You will try to survive your wildest night ever. To do this you must undercover the secrets hidden deep down in Anglerfish’s core by exploring every nook and cranny and solve the buried mysteries. But disturbing forcers will try to keep you from the truth, so you must be ready to fight back by blasting their heads off.
Based on a true psychological horror story
One of your friends from work is getting married. You're at his bachelor party with all of your colleagues at the bar, Anglerfish. It’s Look-a-like Thursday, so you fit in naturally with your schoolgirl uniform. You all have a friendly competition to see who will be the best man at the wedding. But your good time comes to an abrupt end, when the secrets of Anglerfish call for the last drink of the night.
Five things you should know about the game:
- You can pet the dog.
- The game only saves when you die.
- Every time you die, something changes.
- Dying can be a good thing.
- A shotgun is a great ice breaker on a date.
- Each playthrough will be a new take on the game.
- You can’t trust us.
So come with us if you want to die.
- John & Maria
Professional Villains
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this game's unique, playful approach to game design that rewards repeated playthroughs and emotional investment, with charming developer personality and humor throughout. However, many find the early game frustrating with its deliberately unpolished combat and puzzle design, frequent gotcha deaths, and loop-heavy structure that doesn't appeal to everyone—though those who embrace the quirky journey and its meta commentary on gaming tend to find it genuinely delightful.
By the end, this game basically felt like a relationship and good love is about creating small surprises in the ordinary, day after day（i sound like a 80 yearold On the third run, it set up this fake competition, as if the player stayed because they wanted to beat them. But I only kept coming back to this endless loop cuz it was just so cute and fun to be around the early part of my first run was really frustrating. At that time I only saw this as a game, but the more I playe the more I could see the two developers hiding behind and messing around also this game is such a tsundere It keeps giving you a hard time while quietly trying to take care of you, making sure you still love them and don't actually leave Judging by the reviews, this strategy didn't work on a lot of people... but I’m exactly the target audience lol I love you, Anglerfish. You can shoot me as many times as you want4 found this helpful
Been meaning to review this game for a long while now. I do enjoy it. It's got a unique play style, multiple endings, different media and celebrity refs, and more. I haven't been able to finish this game though due to being stuck on one of the loops, then got extremely busy and sidetracked. One of these days I'll have to go back and attempt to finish it since I've had a playthrough of this going on my Youtube channel a few years ago.
Bizarre and wonderful
I would recommend this game.
Not to be mean, but I picked this one up on sale and I'm glad. I kept playing until 1:00, clearly I was having fun. You're here for the jokes, folks. And Anglerfish absolutely made me laugh for an hour or two. But this isn't just "rough around the edges" I might go as far as to call it "unfinished." There's just enough combat to kill you, but not enough to feel like an action game. There's just enough puzzling to pace it, but nothing that feels more rewarding than a Wordle. It's not mean or impenetrable like V*** S*******, but it will take the piss out of ya. Lots of surprise kills and "gotchas!" that might test your sense of humor. It has something I'm going to call a "Mercy Engine" where certain repeated puzzles and frequent deaths are rewarded with shortcuts. Like, you don't have to navigate a maze more than once, and if a monster kills you more than thrice it's simply removed. This is nice, but feels more like the dev-team papering-over where the game controls and challenges don't work properly. I finally gave up moments before the actual finish (looked it up on YT) because Anglerfish ran out of "fun" jokes before getting though all its "pranks". I'd call this one streamer…
Absolutely love this game. It plays with expectations in a very fun unique way and it definitely caught me off-guard a few times. Might not be everyones cup of tea, but I haven't enjoyed a game as much in a while! The point though is not to finish the game as quickly as possible. The whole process of getting to the end is what really matters and the friends we made along the way
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