Mango's Fisharium

ew gpt in the credits but doesn't say ai used on the store page

Game was fun for a simple incremental, I play a lot of these games and generally enjoy them. I like the Digseum formula. However, once the credits rolled and I saw a thank you to chatgpt, I did get frustrated since that was undisclosed and I am against gen AI. I do understand that game creation and coding can be difficult, I just wish it had been disclosed on the store page.

Ai is used in this game and is not disclosed which is pretty gross. In terms of gameplay its not great as when you get further into the game the deeper you go the more lag and glitches appear. I might have reccomended it despite that, but as there are much better games made by devs who aren't lazy enough to use Chat GPT and actually care about the negative impacts generative ai has on the planet this is a big thumbs down. Do better

100%ed the game and achievements it just about 4 hours, the developer is right on the money with the playtime. So why did I leave a negative review? It was boring as hell. I don't think I really enjoyed a single thing about this game if I'm being honest, and I've 100%ed quite a few fishing games and/or minigames in many other games. Right from the start, the game is LOUD and you CAN'T turn down the volume until multiple minutes into the tutorial while its blaring as you can't access the Options Menu while you're On-Rails. Once you CAN open the Options menu, there aren't even any sliders to turn the volume/music down! Just Toggle On/Off. So you'll need to adjust the volume in the Windows Sound Mixer if you want an amount of volume that isn't deafening. The prestige-ing is boring, the Shiny Hunt was boring and especially tedious at the end too 100% the achievements as you have to just leave you line on the side and hope that too many fat fish don't magnetically catch themselves before you see one of the 6 Shinies you're there hunting. Though you're able to Shiny Hunt quite fast once you have all the upgrades, it still wasn't fun. Some graphics used appear blurry, like the fish and boat/line, but other environmental pieces were outlined in black and were very sharp and much nicer to look at; which is a weird design choice. The text speed also can't be sped up, so you have to wait for that quite a lot every time you move to a new level, or back to the Fisharium multiple times. The fishing minigame itself is nothing special or new, same thing we've seen a hundred times. It just wasn't really any fun the entire game. Hope you guys get more enjoyment out of it than I did, I don't recommend the game and I picked it up on sale for $2.25AUD, which is actually a very good price for the 4 hours I wasted on this game, but I still don't recommend it even for that price cause I just sat through the game rather than enjoying it. Just so you guys are aware as the developer hasn't disclosed it on the Steam Store Page, the developer credits ChatGPT with translation and some code in the credits. I myself don't really care about AI usage, but I know some people like to be aware if a game's creation had any AI in it, as there are those vehemently against AI usage in Game Development (and most other walks of life); so do what you will with that information as it's not disclosed at the bottom of the Steam Store Page where it's supposed to be.

Entertaining enough game. Extremely disappointed in the undisclosed AI usage. It was a huge letdown to see "ChatGPT" thanked in the credits. Also, unable to skip cutscenes or fast forward dialogue, including the credits. Do better. Also, on a personal note, multiple blatant Christian comments in the game and credits.

Quite enjoyable, however cannot recommend as it's a complete ripoff of Digseum, yet much worse executed. The endgame is grindy as hell. Soba's Gunpaw of the same developer is a lot better.

Positives first: it's a fun cute looking game where you can sink a few hours into. Negative: it takes working all the way to the end and reading the credits to learn that this game was made with the use of ChatGpt, which i could not find any notes off on the store page. if you want to play it, I recommend getting it when it's on sale

I have a lot of issues with this. First off, buy Cauldron instead. Cauldron has this exact game as a minigame, except way better implemented. Cauldron also never used Gen AI, this game unfortunately did and didn't disclose that information or I wouldn't have bought it. Cauldron also has a ton of other minigames, making it way more worth playing. Sure, Cauldron is ten quid more expensive than this game. But it has this game in it and tonnes of other games. Now, more about this game. This game has EXTREMELY slow dialogue. You cannot skip it, it often repeats itself and it's boring, it's just extremely uninteresting to read. This game also has an issue, you cannot alt tab. This game has heavy idle mechanics and you cannot go idle. You have to stay on tab or the game will pause. There's no way to change this, I tried. No way to speed the dialogue up either. So what now? Well, if you still like this developer, they do have a better game with Kale. But this game? Sucks. If you're after the achievements like I am for another 100% game completion, then you can do that. But if you only have one monitor or cannot watch tv at the same time. Don't. You will die from boredom (Probably figuratively) because this game is just awful. Finally. I know it's cheap... but it costs your time and you cannot get a refund on time, are approximately 4 hours of your life really worth a statistic that doesn't do anything? My life is worthless, so I'll still get the achievements done(Mostly because I can't refund it). But your life is worth more than mine. I recommend avoiding this trash. Thanks for reading, or skipping to the end. Have a lovely day. Edit: I now have all the achievements. That last one took multiple hours extra at the end of the game. That was a really bad time. Holy hell.

While the gameplay loop was entertaining enough, once I got to the end and saw that ChatGPT was in the credits, I simply felt immense disappointment. I understand being a solo dev, but I do not think AI like ChatGPT are acceptable options to figuring out code and the like--It's much more satisfying to figure things out on your own, to figure out [i]why[/i] certain code snippets do what they do, If you don't know where to begin, there are hundreds if not thousands of resources out on the internet made by actual people who can help you learn the basics and get confidence to do things on your own. But the fact that ChatGPT was used to create something as simple as this is the sole reason I can't recommend it. I like smaller experiences like this, but I want them made 100% by people. (Later edit: This is NOT disclosed on the product page, either.)

Fun little game but it's a shame that they used ChatGPT for some of the work and also haven't shown this in the AI disclosure on the site.