Open Fishing XL

:3 fish game good

Not the traditional fishing game experience, but well worth the asking price. Wish the developer all the best in future endeavors.

Do you remember those great old pixelated, open-world, exploration hunting games? This captures that feel. For me it's wonderfully nostalgic, but it's still a great looking game and you can change the graphics between pixelated and smooth. The map is nicely sized, there's plenty of freedom to do what you like, and catching fish isn't the only thing you can do. I've been trying to find all of the insects for example. As strange as it is to say, Open Fishing XL has the single most realistic campfire cooking system I've seen in a game. It legit can teach you how to cook fish without burning it. I love it and I highly recommend it. Furthermore the dev is now also working on an Open Hunting XL game and I'm greatly looking forward to it, so consider joining the official discord.

Turns out good new fishing games aren't made anymore. Had to dig up this ol' ps1 banger to get my fix. Natsume could never.

This game is awesome. It has an easy to learn and fun fishing mechanic and the overall vibe of the game is calming and relaxing. I hope this game gets more recognition!

License to Gill

very fun to play. some kinks to work out for sure but it's definitely a good pass-time. big fan of the pixel textured graphics and jerma NPCs. only major gripe is that its really easy to accidentally pick up traps instead of collecting them, therefore losing everything in the trap. I guess its a "live & learn" thing but it'd be nice if there was more of an action difference than click vs. hold. that one bird started to get annoying so I muted the game sounds in my gamebar and put on lake mountain ambience from youtube + some music. great experience so far.