Mango's Fisharium

A very nice and short game from a solo developer, with heart. Just finished it and was touched by the messages at the end credits. Hope you continue to make more!

I was kind of hate playing this game then "There's No Easy Way Out" by Robert Tepper from the "Rocky IV" soundtrack came on and I thought "no there's a super easy way out of this." Probably I'm the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for picking up a semi-idle incremental fishing game and expecting anything else other than being bored out of my mind and wondering if this is what purgatory is like, but the final straw (other than the above incident) was being in the dream pearl upgrades screen and seeing "speed up fishing line return." The first thing that annoyed me about this game was not being able to speed up/skip to results and it's a freaking upgrade... absolutely terrible game design IMO. Conversely I only checked this game out since I'd just played through the dev's latest game "Master healer and useless party members" and kind of liked it (gave it a 6/10, worth playing more than not worth playing, barely). This title feels like it's padded too much for no reason. Mango is cute though so if you're the type of person to ignore the main game and play the fishing mini-game in RPGs then maybe this is you.

The game was meh. I appreciated that being afk could actually help you finish the game faster, although actively playing will always be more efficient by far. Sure ChatGPT was credited in the comments but... whatever. Solo dev made his dream come true. Why not? My biggest gripe was that the gameplay loop was exactly the same throughout. You're literally just looking for green orbs and then resetting, until you don't need to reset anymore. Then you're just shiny hunting (if you want to 100%, otherwise it's over pretty fast). Overall it's pretty uninteresting. Master Healer Kale was a much more interactive and interesting game from the same Dev.

Fun little game but it's a shame that they used ChatGPT for some of the work and also haven't shown this in the AI disclosure on the site.

It's a fun little game, took 12 hours to 100% but it's worth it for the price.

toll