Skulker

It is an interesting game which has some fun aspects to it. Rolling dice to get to a new fishing spot and being able to permanently upgrade spots are interesting mechanics. It has a bit of a board game vibe to it. Unfortunately, the act of catching fish just isn't fun. You play a random mini game every time you cast your line out, and the games are tedious and extremely basic. I honestly think it would be an improvement to just have a dice roll over the current mini game situation. An in-depth fishing/reeling mechanic would be best, but would probably be much harder to develop. I tried to play as long as I could to see if the game got better or more fun, but the mini games wore down my resolve after about an hour. They are just too tedious, and you have to play dozens, or hundreds of these moments out over time as you catch fish, which is the main way you pass the time in this game. When a game is about fishing, you want the fishing part to be better than that. There seemed to be some deeper features like equipment unlocking and other things to collect, but the main game play wasn't fun enough to justify keeping the game. I opted for the refund. I'll keep an eye on this one and c…

The game features a story, but it mainly serves to provide context for your actions. You play as a space fisherman who, after a head injury, forgets his original plan to combine relaxation with work. Fortunately, your robotic assistant is there to remind you: your mission is to fish and catalog every chemical compound in the known universe, conveniently found within the fish themselves. Currently, the game features a single planet, with a second one planned for the full release. This planet is divided into nine distinct regions. However, you can’t explore them all right away; only the starting region is accessible at first. To unlock the others, you’ll need to catch specific rare items. Each region offers different types of fish and collectibles, though the core gameplay, reminiscent of board games, remains consistent across them. Each region is structured like a board, with multiple fishing spots grouped into several rarity levels, plus occasional special event spots. Movement across the board is determined by rolling three dice. Each die produces a number that represents the number of steps you can take, and you can combine the dice in various ways to land on your desired spot.…

It has a few things that are fun and it could be a great game with some work, but there are so many problems with the current state that just make it not enjoyable, especially not for the price. Firstly, it is a Chinese game with an English translation. They made an effort with the dialogue, tutorials, and quests to keep everything clean, and i would never have noticed based on these things that it was a translation. However, item names and descriptions are very bad. Some of them are just transliterated, so for example i caught an item with the description "Cing Ming Si Zit Jyu Fan Fan, Lou Seung Hang Yan Juk Dyun Wan". The items that are translated are pretty hit or miss. Some are perfectly fine, but some are gibberish. Here is an example description, the typos are present in the game text not added by me. "odd numbers reversers, even numvers remains, plus or minus depends on the quadrant." The fish names are sometimes wrong as well, with a jellyfish being named "cuttlefish". On to the gameplay itself, the baseline systems are actually really cool with dice rolls to determine fishing spots, a large number of fish to collect, and an "elemental purity" system to allow later goals …