Fishing With The Homies

Not too bad job for a student project! It was a fun little way to spend an hour vibing and turning my brain off. The summary of the store page says it all, this game will have you fishing things, both fish and non-fish, out of a lake, while making some friends and some enemies along the way. Set your expectations appropriately (ie that you are getting what you pay for, a project made by students in less than a semester then published for free on steam), and then sit back to enjoy a low-key game about the bounty nature has to provide The only two cons are that it's not very long (4 levels you can complete in under 10 minutes each) and there is a bit of jankiness at the very last level when I completed the final challenge. But otherwise it is enjoyable.

This really puts "Kissing my homies goodnight" into perspective.

Don't bother. It's buggy and unfinished garbage.

[h3] I'm currently doing a challenge to play through a free game in every single category on steam. I then give an honest review using ChatGPT. [/h3] Game: 102 / 447 [b] Category: Dark Humor [/b] "Hook, Line, and Homies" At first glance, Fishing with the Homies seems like a chill fishing game. But then you reel in a body part, get a task called build a homie, and the chaos begins. The fishing aspect quickly takes a back seat as your focus shifts to creating an army of homies. These loyal companions fish for you, complete tasks, and even take down the final boss while you sit back and laugh. It's absurd, ridiculous, and strangely addictive. Amassing wealth and power through your homie army feels as satisfying as it is ridiculous. However, the ending felt a little underwhelming—it’s almost like the game doesn’t know how to end the madness it started. Still, it’s hard not to recommend Fishing with the Homies for its unique blend of dark humor and completely bonkers gameplay. Just don’t expect to fish for relaxation—expect to dominate with your homies.

"Fishing With The Homies" is a bizarre "experimental" game "experience" where you take a basic fishing sim and bolt on a frankly weird metagame of creating zombie/homonculuses (homonculii?) out of the things you find. Unfortunately, crazy off the wall game concepts, just like really solid game concepts, only work when coupled to a high quality technical delivery, which this doesn't have. What do you do in the game? Fishing and necromancy. Only with bad graphics. This is another case of Itch failing the one single job it has... to protect and preserve the gaming industry from badly made amateur games, by creating a containment zone to isolate amateur drivel, reinforced with endless participation trophies and high-5's every time an amateur dev manages to get their build to compile. Regrettably, in this instance, amateur drivel leaked out onto Steam and now we have to put up with it. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics aren't great, laughably bad low poly assets with zero polish... at least it's not an asset flip, because no self respecting asset creator would publish any of the assets in this game. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? This is a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher-quality alternatives on Steam.

It turns out fishing goes great in hand with amassing a great army of the dead.

Good game. I appreciate the humor and the gimmick of the game. I say this with love: it feels like a school project in the best ways possible. I'm not good at writing reviews, but for the low low price of free, you should play this game