Fishing: North Atlantic - Enhanced Edition

I ran into a game breaking bug where the boat's rudder stops responding. I actually loved the game up till this point but I did a little research through forums and found this was an issue back in 2021. Very disappointed.

I cant recommend this game... it's NOT being updated and developed anymore, but its still buggy and glitchy. Graphics are like from 2010s, there's absolutely no quality of life updates. Granted, there is some zen when you first set sail into the open sea.... but it doesn't last long. Within a day or two, game becomes extremely repetitive. This game is a replacement to "Fishing: Barents Sea", and instead of improving it, they're now making a completely new one: Ships at Sea, which will be pretty much the same crap but with a bit better graphics and most likely more bugs... Nothing will change! No dev here goes or has ever gone "above and beyond".... nor they will! This game shouldn't be priced for more than, say, €10

I wanted to like this game, but it doesn't respect the player. I've watched videos, I've read guides, I've applied them in the game. I buy tips, find a huge habitat of fish with seagulls flying overhead. The sonar is disgustingly littered with fish, I put around and map out how large the habitat is, find the borders, and I know from the tip which direction the habitat is moving. I have long lines, baited with the best bait for the fish on the sonar. I drop them, my crew is skilled, and they're spread apart. I wait the appropriate amount of time until the lines are ready to be picked up. And I get a handful of fish. Then I could drop a line on a different habitat with a lot less fish on the sonar because that's all I can find right now. And a single line will fill my inventory and the rest of the lines I placed are wasted. There's no consistency, there's no rhyme or reason for any of this. I play for 5 hours or so every few updates. This update says "fish habitats adjusted" that update says something else that sounds hopeful. Nothing ever changes. What a waste. Don't buy this.

Re-tried this on 2025; tl;dr, get it on sale or get it if you really really have nothing else to play or love this niche, even the hunter and fishing games have more engagement than this game. Honestly lots of potential simulating all the fishing modes as well as getting to travel on board ships but the devs are small in size and have already moved on to "Ships at Sea" their newer game So most of the jank and bugs are not going to be fixed. Biggest peeve I have for this is the speed of ships and distance of points. Although it is a simulator of sorts, it is still a game and having large pockets of empty time (around 10-30 mins on slower ships) with nothing to do is not exactly my idea of fun. There should always be something to keep the player engrossed and "awake" in the game around 5-10mins each time and even with truck simulator, traffic is the one that keeps you on your toes. With this game, it is literally open empty seas with nothing to dodge or traverse with skill other than ports. There is also no time speed up or fast travel so it really drags your time in the game. I already worked with boats and ships before and love the simulator experience but not 30minutes of literal nothingness.

非常真实的捕鱼引擎，就连控船、收网、装箱的难以操控都让人感觉到真实（当然也血压升高），毕竟海上有大风大浪，稳是不可能稳的。同时需要根据季节捕捞不同鱼种，重在升级声纳、雇佣船员、计算鱼价。多看鱼类百科、指导手册，随时记录鱼类出没点。 缺点是上手较难，操作需要耐心，捕捞需要技巧。 当你成为一位老渔手，就会体会到动画或2D捕鱼所没有的快乐。无任务、无大量教程，全凭自己摸索（当然，你也可以选择在海上摸鱼摆烂）。 总是就是，根本停不下来！

TL;DR get this game on sale. It's "mostly positive" at time of review for a reason. The good - it gives you a nice dopamine hit to see your catch make that $$, the minigames are reasonably fun. Graphics are nice and gameplay is relaxing. The bad - this is where that line between realism and fun is hard, if you don't want to trawl the ocean for ages with a side scan sonar, it might be best to skip this game. You can buy tips on where fish are, and you can go where other boats fishing, but you spend a lot of time just going from one place to another, setting your nets, and just waiting. In fact doing those two things previously mentioned is a necessity if you want to find any fish. But you better hope the physics don't mess up because if you fast travel via map points there's a good chance you'll find yourself in orbit - and when your ship falls back to earth you incur whatever cost might happen. It's the little things that make this game not worth full price for me - the bugs when they hit, the annoying map around ports so you find yourself slamming into things if you fast travel via map, the game telling me there's no crewmember on board when there is, the markers on the fish during gutting being covered by the models resulting in a poor cut. There really shouldn't have to be a blog post by the developer explaining elements of the game that should be clearly tutorialised in game - that's a sign that somewhere along the road, something got mixed up. This game is fun but it can quickly become frustrating. Buy it at $30 AUD/20 USD or less.

Awesome fishing sim so far! To this point I have a small boat and two crew members. I like the crew training aspect, you can work'em like dogs or throw some cash toward training them up. I saw someone not happy with how dark the game gets at night, I've been on the ocean at night fishing with no moonlight and let me tell you, any scrap of red/green/flashing light is a god send... 10/10 for realism!

Enjoyable for about 2-3 hours in one sitting then you start to go crazy, multiplayer would add a whole new life to this game and would make it much more enjoyable to be able to compete with other boats like who can catch there quotas the fastest etc. seining would also add a entertaining style of fishing closer to the shore line.