Feesh

What a fantastic little game. You've probably played something very similar before. I love the chosen aesthetic and the variations in enemy and consumable fishees are unique. Great job for a little 48 hour game! I'm into it.

- We have a decent game about eating things. It has good gameplay and music. But something is missing... Do you think we must add annoying sharks that will be faster than you and will eat you every time? And do you think we must add a whole game mode with them?

- Yeah, that's definitely a good idea.

I am 32 years old.

My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.

When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.

Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.

With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.

After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.

Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.

Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.

Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.

Thank you.

Considerando el precio, no está tan mal y tendrás unos minutos de diversión por lo bajo.

Dicho esto, no hay demasiada variedad de mecánicas en el gameplay. Los tiburones son muy frustrantes, difícilmente los verás aproximarse, aparecen aleatoriamente y te persiguen como si fueran misiles tele-dirigidos con rango global.

No lo recomiendo la verdad. Incluso con un precio tan accesible, no es difícil encontrar mejores juegos gratis en Internet.

3.5/10

Actually the game is fun. The only problem is when you are small and just starting out, some other creatures zoom around so fast that you will get eaten before you ever even notice them. Making it almost impossible to progress. Good luck getting past the 3rd or 4th round consistently. I think the developer needs to make movement slower so you have time to react, or allow the player to zoom out so we can see what is coming at us!

This game is pretty fun. It's easy to just pick it up and play every once in a while to try to beat your high score. It is also a challenge, as it is a eat or be eaten kind of game. Overall, it's a fun game.

Pretty good incremental growth game, but the ability progression for each level feels a little out of order imo. I couldn't get past the "crustacean" level 4, so i'm not sure what comes after that. Also, after a certain size, enemies stop posing any sort of challenge and the game becomes akin to a late-game Katamari level. i'd say its worth the 99 cents if you're looking for something pretty chill.

It's not a bad game, the main issue seems to be that after a game over the mouse stops working, and it's a bit of a pain to exit the game and enter back into it.

Aside from this, the point of the game is to judge things you can eat, as you eat them you get bigger, if they are bigger than you, then you lose a life.

Feesh is an enjoyable offline multiplayer game that’s very minimalistic and yet colorful in its design. Each “evolution” lasts about 3 min and you keep evolving your creature until you run out of lives and the game ends.

For only $0.99, it’s a pretty good game you can play with other household members, or just play a short game or two by yourself.

Feesh is a unique arcade-style game with minimalist visuals and a chill, ambient soundtrack. The game was made by Tj Hughes, an up-and-coming indie dev & musician from St Louis, as his first commercially released project. Tj began work on Feesh at age 16, which explains the tounge-and-cheek-natured writing on the game's store page and in the in-game instructions.
The objective of the main game (Arcade mode) is to eat other fish smaller than you so you can evolve to a new form and move on the the next stage. Stages get progressivley more difficult and each one introduces a new gimmick that you can use to your advantage.
You have to eat fish smaller than you, otherwise you'll get eaten yourself and lose a life. There are many different kinds of fish, some have unique ways to hamper your progress, others give you perks like shrinking larger fish that are nearby.
It's a very difficult game, seeing as you have no idea if a larger fish or shark is nearby, meaning you have to react quickly. It adds an element of survival, and with the floaty controls it feels somewhat like Sinistar (Google it), which I happen to like.
The game also has a Chill Out mode where you can sit back and watch the AI-controlled fish glide around and eat each other. There's also Shark Attack mode, a brutally difficult gamemode where you're being hunted down by a huge swarm of sharks.
Overall, Feesh is a nice little game, and a promising start for a young, self-taught developer.
I should note that Tj Hughes is currently working on an experimental art-game called Nour, which just so happened to surpass its $25k Kickstarter goal the other day. Having backed Nour I'm really excited to see how much Tj's skills have improved since he made Feesh, once the game comes out early next year.

You will not get passed the second stage unless you are very lucky and if you do, you will be disappointed. The second stage is the only one where you have a special ability, every other evo is the same as the first with a different picture (there is one other where you can hold the button down and it kinda sucks things toward you a bit, it doesn't count), you don't even get to play as any of the more interesting creatures that you see.
The sharks Bee-Line right for you as soon as they spawn anywhere on the "Map", even on your face, insta-gibbing you and they don't stop spawning, ever.
Eventually you evo into a shark and the sharks still go after you.
Then...... when you have eaten everything as a shark (since you have cheated with god mode) and you evo again, what glorious thing will the ultimate creature evolve into?..... the starting creature.... and you loop from the start over again.... F you game.

"But its good for only $0.99"
No, I played a very similer game that was actualy fun and fair, in 2003, for free as a flash game. here - http://www.xgenstudios.com/game.php?keyword=fishyclassic (High volume warning)

Neat game for 99 cents. It's probably not something you will put many hours into but it's a nice relaxing game when you just want to play something simple with a good atmosphere.

The basic premise of the game is simple. The tiny feesh has to eat smaller feesh to grow in size, whilst avoiding being eaten by bigger feesh. Some have special skills, such as producing child feesh. Some are more aggressive than the rest, such as the sharks that will track down the player feesh.

Arcade mode is the main one I played. After reaching a certain size, the feesh evolves into a different type. My main criticism here is that this doesn't unlock the new type permanently. I'm never going to be good enough to play through all the different creatures in one game, so it'd be nice if I could start with a later creature. That way, I'd have a chance to eventually play all the available types.

I liked the way the other feesh are doing the same thing as the player feesh. Sometimes one of those feesh will end up growing very large, as they successfully manage to eat loads of tiny feesh. It creates the feel of a working ecosystem, where the player is no more important than any of the other feesh. Eaten feesh respawn elsewhere, so there will always be other feesh around to continue the game.

The art style is fairly minimalistic with a whimsical flair. I'd note there are some flashes of light at times, though it's more of a gradual increase in light rather than a strobe effect.

This is the sort of game for playing a round in odd moments. It doesn't have a whole lot of depth, but what it does have is nicely done. It's cute and I enjoyed the feel of the art and the funny descriptions of the feesh.

Cant get past the second evolution. I've tried countless times now, the sharks are far too punishing to make the game fun. I understand having a predator that can eat you and follows you around but dont have 50 of them on 1 level unless its the shark attack mode. Theres no place for that shit in arcade or multiplayer. You get to the dashing feesh and the screen is so small that you dash right into a shark and theres NOTHING you can do. Its no longer a game about avoiding larger feesh and trying to eat, its a game about if you are lucky enough not to run into one of the 10+ sharks that are forever hunting you. DONT GET THIS GAME IN ITS CURRENT STATE!

To the Developer: If you dont plan to reduce the shark number to 2 max at any given point in arcade or multiplayer, then at the very least add an indicator that shows where the sharks are on the edge of the screen. Like a small icon pointing toward them so you dont blindly dash to your death. Both would be great and I would gladly give it another try after that.

People seem to rave about the value of this game considering its $0.99. I've played free games that are very minimalist but still fun. At best this is a work in progress.

PRO
- well done on making a game in such a short period of time.

CONS
- little replay value
- small playable area
- chill out mode is pointless
- arcade mode progression is not rewarding (you 'evlolve' and have to start again. if you die you start all the way back fromt the start again).

Overall no price is right for this game.

Price / hour: 0,43€

First of all, I reviewed this as a no, but that's just for the reasons I list below. There ARE some people that will like this, but not me, because:

Pros:
- It has good unique species what other this kind of games don't have
- It's relaxing, controller supported

Cons:
- Music is kinda bad
- No goal, see the reason #3
- IT'S WAY TOO EASY! Alright I know, it's chillout game but, I got bored after first time I played it, since I got all achivements (2 of them are bugged, didn't get them), Arcade never gets harder a.k.a. after third time trying it was just infinite repeating. None of the achievements were hard, thought so when reading the descriptions "No-one is ever gonna get this O.O" and I actually got it at first try. Also, only 9 achievements. This feels way too Early Access
- I got excited when it read "Multiplayer" after playing too-easy singelplayer. Turned out it was LAN only.

For children this would be good game. I'm not a child anymore, it's a no.

In all honesty, this is a game that I enjoy and would strongly reccomend to anyone. It is a pretty good game for $0.99, and although it is very simple, it is a great time killer.

10/10

I'll save you some time, go play agar.io instead.

The moment you open the game you will run for the mute button. The title screen music is horrible. The in-game music however is fairly relaxing.

I've given the game a couple tries with friends, and it bugs out every chance it gets. These are not small problems either, they are game stopping. Every game we played we had to restart because the controls would not respond properly, or at all. Player 4 gets booted from the game as soon as it starts. The start menu has no way of exiting, as the exit button doesn't work. Really, it is just not a well made game, save your money.

EDIT: I thought I should add that most of these problems occured during multiplayer. Arcade mode seems to have less problems.This game is however severly lacking without multiplayer.

Side effects:

- Cramps and pain in your playhand
- uncontrollable flailing of the extremities
- excessive swearing
- dyspnea
- sudden cravings for sushi

A very fun game, well worth the $.99!
The stylized fish/feesh give it a unique look, and combined with the music, the game can be pretty relaxing!
While each level starts out tough as you struggle to catch the smaller feesh, once you fall into the rhythm, it becomes a lot easier; the final moments before you evolve each time has those tinier feesh practically swimming towards your mouth.
Which can probably work as a metaphor, or something.

This game is AMAZING! But every game needs too improve. so here are some ideas.

1.) Make a back round that doest move with you. When you first start out in a evolution its really hard to tell if your moving or not.

2.) SAND BOX MODE!!!! When I first used the chill out mode, it relived me of alot of stress! But then i thought... What if there was a mode where it started out blank. and you had the option to add feesh and invormental stuff in it. also change the colors of stuff.

3.) add invormental stuff.

4.) Add a bunch of cool music to it! well i shoud say add a diferent song with a diferent mood with each evolution.

5.) Make it so you can see your mass (not points, mass) and otheres mass so you know if you are big enough to devour their soul or not.

5.) online mode, of course!

6.) A way to earn money and spend it on health. But you can't use that health in shark mode!

7.) If you don't like #6, then i have a solution, bubbles with hearts in the middle. but thats a little bland dont you think? I think there should be somthing else in there, the bubble.

If you want to be lost in a world where you're struggling through a chaos and want to make your way out of it, then this game will take you to a place where you will feel both sense of accomplishment and deep void. You have to make your choice.

Definitely an interesting piece.

P.s I got bored pretty quickly though.

Important note: The multiplayer is OFFLINE only, up to 4 players locally. When I bought the game it said "Multiplayer", but has now been fixed to say "local co-op".

Here's a first impressions video; review continues below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rp74hR1ANg

This game plays like a mild-mannered cousin of Agar.io and Sparkle Evolution. You play as a small organism who you move around the screen, eating everything smaller than you and avoiding things bigger than you. You do this until you evolve, and then you do it again as an 'evolved' version of the previous creature. When you evolve, gameplay changes a bit in things like speed, acceleration, and additional abilities like a dash move.

The sound is nice and the music fits really well. The graphics are lovely- simple, but not plain. And that's what you'd want from this sort of title.

I'm torn on whether to recommend it or not, as it's only 99 cents and is obviously well made, but I'm really not sure I'll ever play it again. I'm going to say YES.