Desert Island Fishing for Pc

This is one of the few games that I downloaded that can run offline and still be as enjoyable as if it were online. The game has a simple concept of fishing with interesting additions such as leveling, better items, different characters and odd items. This being said, I’ve had my fun with the game, along with the couple struggles I’ve faced. The game is great, but for the long run there are some problems that keep me from wanting to return. After playing the game for a little over 2 hours, I found that getting the rarer fish wasn’t financially helpful as the more expensive food out-priced the total sale of all 25 rare fish. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun game to get into if your bored and want to some time having fun fishing for unique fish/items in different locations. After a while, I thought I unlocked a character that looked like an Eskimo, but he never became unlocked. I didn’t know where to look for help on the issue, and became frustrated. Some of the GUI is messed up as well with the fish food you select not always appearing at the bottom of the screen, or the little radar button in the bottom left appearing. A simple app refresh usually fixes the issue, but it does come back up. In the future, I hope there is some updating done that I can come back to replay the game. The game has a lot of promise for being a good game in the future, and I will gladly come back if some more updating is done. -Ryan

I mean, it seems pretty fun at first, but as you play more, you have to spend more and more on bait/hooks if you want to catch the stuff, which is still annoying because each fish has a different hook speed. (Imagine playing a FPS where each life your sensitivity randomized itself, so you could never get used to controls before dying and having it randomized again, catching fish feels like that). Then leveling up/upgrading characters is a huge pain, because you have to catch certain sets of fish, some requiring you to clear out your tiny inventory in order to hold them all, and many times, you have to catch maybe hundreds of fish in order to be able to keep buying and upgrading rods in order to be able to reach the needed depth. Especially because you need to buy tons of bait all the time, so it's really hard to save up. And once you finally catch the whole set of fish, you can trade them in for 2 skill points to split between your characters, and they barely do anything. To be honest, I'm not even sure if I can complete any of the sets I currently have to choose from because my character isn't a high enough level to use the rod he needs to fish deep enough for most of them... There are aquariums you can put fish in to earn tiny amounts of money every few hours, but with the money I need to spend on bait, I can't make any headway on buying more tanks...

It's not really a bad game, but it's designed around the expectation that the player will be watching tons and tons (and tons) of ads. I made the mistake of spending money on this, before discovering that it doesn't matter because the money generating drone actually does hardly anything and I was still going to need to watch hundreds of ads to have a chance in hell of getting any progress in the game. This is a disrespectful and exploitative practice and is highly disappointing to see in yet another otherwise promising game. The only upside to this horrible scheme is that the ads are technically not forced on you. You just won't be doing much of anything without regularly watching them. Update: I added one star because I have been playing this game regularly and figured out a way to get progress without watching too many adds (just one a day for 5 pearls). It takes some time and trial and error but figuring out which expert bait to use for each category and filling up aquarium slots with rare catches makes the grind bearable. But the fact that inventory can only be acquired through a huge expenditure of pearls is a big problem still. It is also impossible to access the treasure island without watching tons of ads. Ads are terrible, nobody likes them. If I cannot buy out of the ads for a reasonable cost this review will never improve.

In premise the game is fun, the graphics are cute, but after a couple of hours it really bogs down. You can sell a fish for around $20, which will help you buy 25 pieces of rare bait for $600. And you might go through several of those to try to catch one rare fish you need to complete a set. If you get the option to catch that rare fish, then you have to play 2 mini games to determine if you catch it (gets easier as you upgrade your fisherman, which you can by selling sets of fish, which means you need those hard to catch fish, which is generally annoying). Of course about 10-20% of the fish you catch are ads (either 5 second ads that you need 50 of to try to catch some extra goods, or a 30 second ad for $500). So you have the option to not watch ads but you won’t really get very far. Keep in mind some of the necessary gear in the game can cost up to $100,000 and still have to be upgraded with more gold. To really play the game you will need to spend some cash and watch the same 30 second ads over and over (around 1 every 5-10 minutes of gameplay). It is easier to just buy a $5 game that you can play and enjoy, but free games are free for a reason, so enjoy those ads!!!