fishy

It was a bit jarring at first, playing as a 14 year old on some kind of sleepover birthday party. But after a couple of minutes, you get used to it and get drawn into the story. "fishy" is well written and well made, and I'd be interested in finishing the game and playing other games by the developer, at least one of which is available on itch.

A really wholesome little story about overcoming anxiety and fear

feesh

Game was absolutely adorable and captures anxiety really well! The art was beautifully drawn and it was REALLY cool that the main character has a prosthetic arm!! Short, cute, and all around gorgeous game! Very well done!

"fishy" isn't a game. It's an e-book dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual novel/e-book/fan-fiction, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written dialogue that would never be accepted in print by an actual professional publisher. How did something this badly written end up on Steam? When someone can't get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam Direct under the guise of a game. This is a thankfully short non-game e-book that deals with a girl who gets lost while trying to make friends in an aquarium, and features some encounters with aquarium themed monsters. As with all non-game e-books on Steam, the writing is particularly bad, on par with your average high school fan-fiction. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. Visual novels/e-books are the worst way to try read a book (and they're always written far worse than real books too). Imagine reading your favorite book, be that War and Peace or The Davinci Code (are you ok??), but you have to click the mouse for every single sentence that appears. You'd hate it. It's a garbage way to try read a book... and even if it wasn't, this still isn't a game. Now take that annoying clicking and add utterly cringey high-school anime club dropout writing to it. Real authors are published in print and found in Barnes & Noble. This garbage only ended up on Steam because they paid $100 to self-publish, because let's face it, professional publishers would not only reject this garbage they saw it, they'd take out restraining orders. There's no reason for this to be on Steam when it could just be a webpage... e-books are just a bunch of cringe text and (usually character generator created) static 2D imagery. You don't buy an expensive gaming PC to use it for something your web browser can do for free. A peak of 6 concurrent readers for a free visual novel/e-book is a disaster. Out of 130 million potential gamers, almost nobody was interested. That level of rejection speaks for how badly written this is. To put this into perspective, to satisfy the global demand for this book, you'd only ever need to print 6 copies. That's what failure looks like. While this e-book's free, you can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries. Steam is for PC games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle or a mobile phone e-book reader. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

was short, but a very cool game/story! couldnt figure out how to get one of the pictures for the gallery but i still loved it!