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Reely Scary Fishing Game by thomz12

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made by thomz12 for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Something sinister lurks in the deep... and it's your task to catch it! :shark: Complete your altar (that's not a weird thing to do at all) and collect all the strange and dangerous monsters hiding in the water. Using nothing but your trusty fishing rod :fishingpoleand_fish:, can you collect them all? Oh, and did we mention you're a ghost? :ghost: How SPOOKY!

Put on your favorite scary audio book and start reeling in those fishes!!

Play the game in your browser here

How to play

Use your mouse to move your rod, and jank the 'fish' out of the water!

Gallery

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Contributors

Made with :heart: by Thom Zeilstra and Mathijs Koning.

Itch.io https://royallyscrewed.itch.io/reely-scary-fishing-game
Github https://github.com/thomz12/LD58
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/reely-scary-fishing-game

Ratings

Overall 346th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 501th 3.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 509th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 108th 4.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 175th 4.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 332th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 203th 3.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 283th 3.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

Oxropy
Oct 07th · 00:11 UTC
Nice Night for Fishing, ain't it

I collected them all 🎣

![Screenshot_20251007_020818.png](///raw/614/73/z/6e603.png)
LDJam user 260720
Oct 07th · 19:38 UTC
Nice game! Simple but very well polished!
Bahonika
Oct 07th · 19:44 UTC
Its kinda funny, i like it
Firebender
Oct 07th · 19:48 UTC
That tool a while. Good take on the theme! It feels like Halloween already :tongue:
![Screenshot 2025-10-07 214512.png](///raw/b0d/1/z/6ebc1.png)
Keith Wang
Oct 07th · 20:16 UTC
Simple but beatifully made game, love the pixelated filter and the fishing line.
dualithe
Oct 07th · 23:16 UTC
![Screenshot 2025-10-08 011529.png](///raw/ed0/d4/z/6ece2.png)

Great game, could be turned into mobile game if you tweaked controls a bit, congrats!
Pimeko
Oct 09th · 00:24 UTC
Really cute game, liked the wobbly effect of the fishing rod! Couldn't understand how to equip the hat and such but enjoyed the experience :)
LDJam user 243193
Oct 13th · 08:25 UTC
Nice fishing game! Too bad it's really RNG dependent, otherwise it could be good game.
Still, I like the simplicity of fishing making it easy to fish. I'm surprised that it has powerups too.
surf croc
Oct 19th · 21:06 UTC
I like the visuals! It would be cool if the upgrades were displayed somewhere (like the ghost wearing the witch hat for example).
boshlonavish
Oct 23rd · 14:07 UTC
Very fun and surprisingly addictive. I love the visuals and the halloween theme. Well done!
cassowary
Oct 24th · 01:11 UTC
I really like the game-feel and the physics, it's very satisfying to FLING the fish out of the water and the mouse controls are super fun. I do wish there was a bit more going on rather than just getting lucky to get rarer fish as it got a bit repetitive after a while (maybe making catching the fish a little more difficult / involved somehow would be good). I'm also not sure that the low-resolution style with dynamic rotation always worked great, but the graphics themselves were very nice, especially the cute ghost and the various fish designs.
Skoufakis
Oct 24th · 11:16 UTC
Took me 7:02 to catch them all. And I enjoyed every minute of it :D
The controls are super interesting for a fishing game. See it for the first time and it works really well.
Also the idle progress system is really nice.

And Monster Fishes, sick idea!
Ausstein
Oct 24th · 17:35 UTC
![Screenshot 2025-10-24 193401.png](///raw/7a3/22/z/6f98b.png)

I had all but the last so quick then it took forever...

anyway such a gem to find in the danger zone, hope you make your 20 ratings