Go Fish‪!‬ 12+

To make a long story short, I was introduced to this game after seeing my best friend and her cousin completely addicted to it. I was a little skeptical, but I tried it out on their phone after a brief demo of how it was played. Game play is simple- simply tap the screen and the hook will descend, leaving you nothing to do but swipe your finger across the screen to catch the fish. I have been playing this for a while now, and still find myself playing it a couple times a day. Yes, like other reviews you do see a lot of ads, mostly if you want to double your money to be able to dive deeper and earn more money while offline. While they don’t bother me too much, it’s a small price to pay rather than shelling out real money to upgrade. However, I do have a few suggestions I’d like to make to make the game a bit interesting. I’d like to go deeper, perhaps even encounter a Kraken or other big sea creatures. Maybe being able to unlock other fishing poles could help attract fish that are worth more or extremely rare. Also, maybe random things like treasure chests or a mermaid spotting would entice other player

This game is very weird in that it is horribly monetized. First, let’s start with the gameplay loop. You tap the screen to throw your hook into the water and you drag your finger left and right to collect fish as you reel back up. Once back at the surface the game counts your fish and gives you a gold reward based on what kind of fish and how many you caught, that is the entire game by the way. When you want to collect your money the game forces you to watch an ad. The gameplay loop is way to fast to support this kind of monetization. You’ll be watching ads way more often than playing the game itself which is a good way to disincentivize people playing the game at all. If you do want to support the dev’s for the frankly lackluster game you’ll be paying $7.99 for a no ads experience. However it’s just not worth it because in the game itself is a way to gain so much money that you don’t even need to play it to get all the things in the game.

The reason for the one star is because there is a horrendous subscription in the game that charges $6.49 PER WEEK! Nothing in the game that I’ve seen even remotely justifies such a predatory subscription from a bottom of the barrel fishing game. Which calls into question why such a thing is even in the game. I imagine it has something to do with young children and unsupervised credit cards.

This app is amazing. I love the whole concept of getting better and better fish as you get deeper. But there are a couple of problems. For some reason, it won’t let me watch an ad to get more money. Like I’ll get 40,000 in a catch and it’ll give me the option to triple it if I watch the ad, so I click it and...! Nothing happens. I’ve restarted my phone, exited out of the app, and as far as I know you don’t need to buy anything to be able to click on that. At the beginning it was working, but now it isn’t. It’s not so bad that it’ll make me delete the app, just pretty annoying. Now, the ads that you don’t earn anything from are a WHOLE other story. 90% of the time I’ll have to watch an ad after catching something and it’s really annoying. This game is super funny and I totally recommend it, but please, can you fix these two problems? It makes the whole experience less... fun. Anyways, I recommend it, but keep in mind that the ads that give you prizes don’t work and the regular ads pop up a bunch.