FISHERMAN

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Has the potential to be more than it is. Perhaps with a little bit more love it could be something, currently it isn't.

FISHERMAN is about as simple as a fishing game can get, and I actually found that simplicity strangely relaxing. The main idea is basically to click and fish, wait for another opportunity and then use what I catch for other activities. There is almost no learning curve, which makes it something I can jump into without thinking too hard. The fishing itself is extremely straightforward. I wait for the fishing action to become available, collect fish and then decide what to do with them. Caught fish can be exchanged and used with treasure chests, which gives the basic click and wait loop a little more purpose. I liked that the game does not try to turn a very simple concept into a complicated simulation. The first person presentation gives it a little more personality than a completely menu based idle game would have. It is still very basic, but there is something oddly satisfying about checking back in and seeing what I have caught. The casual nature works well when I just want something small running without requiring constant attention. My biggest problem is obviously the lack of depth. There is not much active gameplay beyond clicking to fish and waiting for the next opportunit…

You click every 90 seconds, and the mechanics are repetitive.

the game has no animations, the fish spins like a top

FISHERMAN is another disgusting clicker scam game like "banana". Notably the developer did go to the effort of stealing some Unity assets to make it look like a fishing game, but really you're just clicking to see which "NFTs" you can get. So this is also a Unity asset flip. Wonderful. Effectively a blockchain/NFT game, but abusing the Steam Marketplace instead of some other blockchain/wallet system... the end result is the same, this isn't a real game, it's just dumped on Steam to scam PC gamers through the Steam Marketplace. It has no value as a serious game, you just click stuff in the hopes an "NFT" marketplace item drops so the developer can get paid for the sale... and of course so the developer can sell ones that he's farmed up himself. So while this looks "free", it's only superficial. The real purpose for this game is for the developer to farm and exploit Steam Inventory items that drop through the game. They can then sell these items in bulk on the Steam Community Marketplace. This kind of Steam abuse, combined with a minimum-viable-product non-game, does no service to gamers whatsoever. This is pollution... it's harmful to everyone. It hurts genuine indie dev…