Hooked Inc: Fishing Games 12+

This game is great for people who like calming, simple games, that are straight to the point. The whole objective of the game is to catch fish, upgrade your boat, and get to new locations. The new locations don’t give you new challenges or anything, they just give you new fish to catch. I find this extremely convenient and fun because also when you get a school of fish it’s just so satisfying to see hundreds of fish go into your boat all at once. And when you get some of those tool upgrades, it’s so nice to see how much more efficient your boat gets. If this game were to be described in one word, it would be Satisfying. Not just in how you catch and upgrade everything, but the convenience and simplicity of the menus and everything. And almost never get any ads either. That is what always makes me delete games: the incredible amount of ads. But when you do watch ads, it’s worth it because of the amount of gems you can get, and the boosters from the wheel. Thanks to the devs for making this game just so perfect. This is a definite 10/10 for me.

Many apps have a ad cool down, where once I’ve watched an ad willingly to get a reward, the normal actions that trigger ads won’t trigger. Idle world, for example, has this feature. This game… does not. If I watch an ad to double my reward on a crate, when the ad ends and I can hit claim, another ad plays. These ads are the type where “30 seconds maximum” is very loose, where after the 30 seconds, another 15 second clip plays, then you have to find the tiny x button while the information for the ad keeps popping up. And then there’s another one. These triggered ads don’t have a small timer before you can x out alike most unwanted ads; you have to watch the entire 45+ seconds to claim your reward. The crates come pretty frequently, too, so this happens many, many times. Oh, and if you exit out of the app and come back in to trick the system into thinking you’ve already watched the ad, at any point? You get no reward and all the crates you’ve stacked up have $0 in them now. And airplane mode doesn’t work. It’s so simple to just disable the ad that pops up when I hut claim immediately after I’ve already watched an entire ad.

The game layout is great. The simple art is lovely. The mechanics are simple and easy to understand. Even the pacing of the game makes sense. Truly, a 5 star game. But the ads annoy me so, so much that I’m on the verge of deleting the game altogether.

I got this game before all the “ads” happened. I remember playing this game for hours because of the music and art style. This game was great at entertaining its audience. There weren’t any forced ads either. The only times I had to watch an ad was went I wanted a reward from it. The wheel for example made you watch an ad to receive a boost plus you could get bonus gems. This made players like myself want to watch the ads to get more from the game. This was a time of happiness. I never stopped playing the game but I did leave it alone for a week or two. When I got back however, things had changed. The minute I opened the app I was hit with an ad. This sort of surprised me since I never had an ad I didn’t click on open. Then it became way too frequent. Every time I opened a package, the side bar where you can buy things, and even the quests and news icons, I was hit with an ad. The worst part about this was I could never catch a break. Even when I watched an ad to get a reward, another ad would play right after. This really took the fun out of the game. The music and art style is still fantastic. I will always love how to play the game. But the ads have become too much and I’ve thought about deleting the game several times because of this. I hope those who read this find the game very fun to play. The ads are what is wrong with the game.