Simulation
A laid-back fishing sim where you build up a little riverside studio and photograph your catches.
★★★★☆ 4.4
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Simulation · 4.4★
144games tested
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2years running
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What readers say
«A laid-back fishing sim where you build up a little riverside studio and photograph your catches.»
Tomas · Big Bass Studio
«A story-heavy mobile RPG with turn-based fights and a surprisingly good cast of companions.»
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«A coastal base-building strategy game about defending harbors from raiders.»
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Questions & answers
How do you choose which games to review?
We pick a mix of genres so the catalog isn't all one flavor, and we lean toward games we can actually test on the phones we own. Sometimes a reader suggestion nudges us, sometimes it's just curiosity. Either way, a game gets several days of real play before we write about it.
Do you get paid to write positive reviews?
No. Nobody pays us to bump a score or soften our opinion. Big Bass Studio, for example, got a warm review simply because we enjoyed the calm fishing loop, not because anyone asked us to.
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