vissekom

short and cute

[h1]An unremarkable idle game even by the subterranean standards of the genre[/h1] Start game. Walk away. Return. Open new present(s) after several attempts. I didn't like Botanik, but it at least made an attempt at a multiplayer component. This is just an interactive screensaver, and not even a very good one. "Mountain" appears to do the same thing, better, for a third of the price. Before anyone comes at me: If you liked it, great. I didn't. Not recommended.

Well, as a tamagotchi substitute it's frankly a poor one; it can eat but it can't otherwise interact, poop, or even die... though it can pose existential questions about its own identity and nature, which is upsetting (all the moreso because *you* could give the answers, but you never will). And at some point it gets a starfish for a friend (which is also apparently sentient enough to cogitate, ergo it is). Also, this is pretty much an anti-guide to how to keep fish, since your primary modes of interacting with them are tapping the glass and spinning the bowl, both of which kick up their ♥♥♥♥ like a snowglobe, and it's got you putting stuff in the tank like donuts and cheetos and ♥♥♥♥... That said, with their little fish boombox playing chill beats, and the gift countdown timer up in the corner, it actually makes a decent utility for practicing the Pomodoro Technique--seriously, every time you hit a pause in your work, just click over to the fishbowl, if you've been good and working awhile you'll have fish gifts piled up, if not then just power-click your way through a few stages of the gift countdown, 1 click/sec, cus everyone knows time flies when you click fish, then unwrap a few fish gifts, get a few pops of dopamine, exalt in the rush, and then get back to whatever it was you're doing because by this point you've fully exhausted the content of the game.

I appreciate these small, at times experimental indies that Sokpop puts out. I hardly tire of exploring short creative whimsies, and Vissekom is one of them. It is a virtual fish in a bowl, but your virtual fish in a bowl.

It's kind of like an aquarium screensaver in the Sokpop art style. I wish there was more content though, but overall it's a fun little game.

I don't think you need money to get what this offers. But It's nice, I like it.

This game was cute, but honestly just kind of lacked. It's good if you want something to do in the background, but that's about it. It's not super entertaining, but not super boring. Just kinda meh. 4/10