Ridiculous Fishing EX

Name: Ridiculous Fishing EX
Rating: 4.8 (14093 reviews)
Author: Vlambeer B.V.

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14K Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
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Action
Developer

Vlambeer B.V.
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Supported
Language

EN
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Size

453.7
MB

An updated, handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters. Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory. An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features: + Gorgeous 3D art + An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode + Exclusive new content + Leaderboards + Total rewrite from the ground up + All new guest fish + BikBok™ Based on Vlambeer’s popular 2013 original, Ridiculous Fishing was lovingly handcrafted over the course of two years by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne), Zach Gage (SpellTower, Knotwords, Good Sudoku, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness) and Greg Wohlwend (Threes, Hundreds, TumbleSeed), and remade in collaboration with KO_OP (GNOG, Winding Worlds). Winner of the Apple Design Award 2013; Nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Awards; Declared Most Important News Story 2011 by industry magazine Control International; Featured in The New York Times Praise for the original *Ridiculous Fishing*: "Ridiculous Fishing is such a complete package that it's an effortless recommendation." ~ Eli Hodapp (TouchArcade) - (5 / 5) "Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store." ~ Chris Reed (Slide2Play) - (4 / 4) "Vlambeer's game is, as its title suggests, ridiculous. In its simple, gleeful rhythms of play, it's sublime, too." ~ EDGE - (9 / 10) "One of the most mechanically satisfying experiences you'll ever find, and wrapped in a dazzlingly cool aesthetic." ~ Eli Cymet (Gamezebo) - (5 / 5) "It makes the mass destruction of innocent sea life absolutely adorable." ~ Andrew Webster (The Verge) "I've come to think of Ridiculous Fishing as the unofficial game of Wes Anderson's movie The Life Aquatic." ~ Rob Hearn (PocketGamer) "Ridiculous Fishing is from an alternate iPhone gaming universe where Nintendo is the production quality standard and action is everything." ~ Robert Ashley (A Life Well Wasted) "A rare pearl amidst the endless sardines of iOS games." ~ Chris Bateman (International Hobo) "I'm hooked up to an IV and playing Ridiculous Fishing. One is medicine, the other is a painkiller." ~ Ben Kuchera (PA Report) "Ridiculous Fishing is something very special." ~ exp. Magazine

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

14K Ratings

Very good but too hard to complete the fishopedia
08/04/2023

tomachuuu
What the title says. I loved the original and got this one the day it released. It had a bunch of issues at release but the developers have really been on the ball with fixing them. In general, this game is an improvement from the first one (besides BikBok being a lot less fun than Byrdyr) but could use a bit more new content. Mainly I find the stuff from Pro Fishing Tour to be lots of fun and really interesting but sadly you only get to play about 5 minutes a day. Some kind of new, challenging world that uses some features from Pro Fishing Tour could work.Anyway, the fishopedia issue- I like the new variant thing (even when gigantic rare fish all over get kind of distracting) but there's also these new fish in the game that are really REALLY hard to obtain. The five 'Friend' fish from the Maelstrom. Far too much luck and weird circumstances are involved in collecting them all, and their variants make matters even worse. I would suggest making use of the 3 save files and let players find 'friend' fish that represent their high scores in their other save files. Otherwise, collecting all types of 'friend' fish may be impossible in some cases, and most players might not even know they exist.

Developer Response
Hi there, thank you so much for this review and your feedback. I'll send it along to the devs. 🙏
Very good but too hard to complete the fishopedia
08/04/2023

tomachuuu

What the title says. I loved the original and got this one the day it released. It had a bunch of issues at release but the developers have really been on the ball with fixing them. In general, this game is an improvement from the first one (besides BikBok being a lot less fun than Byrdyr) but could use a bit more new content. Mainly I find the stuff from Pro Fishing Tour to be lots of fun and really interesting but sadly you only get to play about 5 minutes a day. Some kind of new, challenging world that uses some features from Pro Fishing Tour could work.Anyway, the fishopedia issue- I like the new variant thing (even when gigantic rare fish all over get kind of distracting) but there's also these new fish in the game that are really REALLY hard to obtain. The five 'Friend' fish from the Maelstrom. Far too much luck and weird circumstances are involved in collecting them all, and their variants make matters even worse. I would suggest making use of the 3 save files and let players find 'friend' fish that represent their high scores in their other save files. Otherwise, collecting all types of 'friend' fish may be impossible in some cases, and most players might not even know they exist.
Developer Response 08/14/2023
Hi there, thank you so much for this review and your feedback. I'll send it along to the devs. 🙏
Ridiculously Fun EX
05/30/2024

OnlyInfiniteCharacters
This game is excellent. I’ll say it right now. I love this game to bits, specifically the bits of the fish I obliterate daily in game. I really just love a lot about this game. Most fishing games take a gritty and serious avenue, choosing to appeal to that demographic of people who enjoy that specifically. However I find almost all fishing games boring, until I found this artifact at the bottom of the mobile game abyss known as Ridiculous Fishing EX. I love how it takes such a goofy and fun route. Everything is ridiculous in a fun and great way. The art style, the music, and the gameplay all look like the devs had so much fun with this. The progression is also great, I really enjoy the games’s progression from island to island. I only really have some issues in a few bugs, but don’t let that discourage you. I also love all the little things, such as the fish phone showing your actual battery and the actual time. If you can, or especially if you’re on the fence, PLEASE don’t pass up this gem. Also Devs, I hope you add new content as well, keeping players coming. Also don’t be afraid to not do that and instead focus on bug fixes too if it calls for it. Good luck with your next endeavors.
Ridiculously Fun EX
05/30/2024

OnlyInfiniteCharacters

This game is excellent. I’ll say it right now. I love this game to bits, specifically the bits of the fish I obliterate daily in game. I really just love a lot about this game. Most fishing games take a gritty and serious avenue, choosing to appeal to that demographic of people who enjoy that specifically. However I find almost all fishing games boring, until I found this artifact at the bottom of the mobile game abyss known as Ridiculous Fishing EX. I love how it takes such a goofy and fun route. Everything is ridiculous in a fun and great way. The art style, the music, and the gameplay all look like the devs had so much fun with this. The progression is also great, I really enjoy the games’s progression from island to island. I only really have some issues in a few bugs, but don’t let that discourage you. I also love all the little things, such as the fish phone showing your actual battery and the actual time. If you can, or especially if you’re on the fence, PLEASE don’t pass up this gem. Also Devs, I hope you add new content as well, keeping players coming. Also don’t be afraid to not do that and instead focus on bug fixes too if it calls for it. Good luck with your next endeavors.
Excellent remake of a classic
08/01/2023

iSichas
The original Ridiculous Fishing was still functional, but had a lot of visual bugs as newer devices came out. This was understandable since it was a pretty old game at that point, but still a bummer because I really loved playing it back in the day. But now it is back, and better than ever! The updated graphics are great, the new items are fun and excellent additions, and while I haven’t gotten to the new areas yet I’m excited that they exist! There’s a lot here for newcomers and veterans of the game, and it’s amazing to see this on Apple Arcade. I hope a lot of people will get to try this out and enjoy it like I have!Update: In 15 years of using the App Store I’ve never gotten a developer reply to a review. To have gotten one on a game I love by a developer I’ve followed since 2010 and Super Crate Box, is just wonderful. The previous performance-related issues I had mentioned do indeed appear to be gone and the game is running extremely smoothly while the phone stays cool. The polished controls are really noticeably better as well. Fantastic update, and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the teased upcoming content! Thanks Vlambeer!

Developer Response
Ahhhh thank you so much for this kind review! I wanted to let you know our recent 1.0.3 update will deal with some of the heat/performance issues you were having 🙏
Excellent remake of a classic
08/01/2023

iSichas

The original Ridiculous Fishing was still functional, but had a lot of visual bugs as newer devices came out. This was understandable since it was a pretty old game at that point, but still a bummer because I really loved playing it back in the day. But now it is back, and better than ever! The updated graphics are great, the new items are fun and excellent additions, and while I haven’t gotten to the new areas yet I’m excited that they exist! There’s a lot here for newcomers and veterans of the game, and it’s amazing to see this on Apple Arcade. I hope a lot of people will get to try this out and enjoy it like I have!Update: In 15 years of using the App Store I’ve never gotten a developer reply to a review. To have gotten one on a game I love by a developer I’ve followed since 2010 and Super Crate Box, is just wonderful. The previous performance-related issues I had mentioned do indeed appear to be gone and the game is running extremely smoothly while the phone stays cool. The polished controls are really noticeably better as well. Fantastic update, and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the teased upcoming content! Thanks Vlambeer!
Developer Response 07/31/2023
Ahhhh thank you so much for this kind review! I wanted to let you know our recent 1.0.3 update will deal with some of the heat/performance issues you were having 🙏
Love it please read😍
01/14/2024

ngvgyytgvgyvfyv
I really love this game and I would really give it like five stars but I would like a little bit more differences. I hope you understand that I wish that there was a girl character that fishes and I would like there to be a little bit more I want like a different kind of boat. I wish you can customize them and I would really like to customize our characters like if you added more characters, I would like to like customize it even if you just added the customizing thing to the boy I think I can make it look like a girl and so yeah I would like more bik book videos so yeah and I also like how like I don’t know how to explain this I would want there to be a bit more what’s gone? I want to be like mini games like you can play mini games on your phone on the game. I love how this game is because I used to have this this game, but it was out of arcade, but it was so glitchy and I had to delete it because it just glitched all over but then I saw this game I downloaded it I saw that it was really fun game and it was just like the one that I used to have so that made me really happy and yeah I love how there’s no ads or anything on the game but I also do like how you don’t need Wi-Fi or Internet connection to play the game. That’s a really smart technique because me as a girl I love to go places. I also love how the gameplay is I love how you can actually fish but one thing is for sure I wish you can get more money for each fish and when you’re done with all the upgrades why don’t you make more? I wish there was like more levels so when you finish buying all the things there could be more things you can buy because after it’s not that much fun, so yeah these are the changes I would like you to make and overall it’s really really I love this game. I could play it all night all day every day and there’s nothing else I would rather play so so I really would like you to make the changes and please read this message because I love this game and I would really want to play even more so please see my respond bye.
Love it please read😍
01/14/2024

ngvgyytgvgyvfyv

I really love this game and I would really give it like five stars but I would like a little bit more differences. I hope you understand that I wish that there was a girl character that fishes and I would like there to be a little bit more I want like a different kind of boat. I wish you can customize them and I would really like to customize our characters like if you added more characters, I would like to like customize it even if you just added the customizing thing to the boy I think I can make it look like a girl and so yeah I would like more bik book videos so yeah and I also like how like I don’t know how to explain this I would want there to be a bit more what’s gone? I want to be like mini games like you can play mini games on your phone on the game. I love how this game is because I used to have this this game, but it was out of arcade, but it was so glitchy and I had to delete it because it just glitched all over but then I saw this game I downloaded it I saw that it was really fun game and it was just like the one that I used to have so that made me really happy and yeah I love how there’s no ads or anything on the game but I also do like how you don’t need Wi-Fi or Internet connection to play the game. That’s a really smart technique because me as a girl I love to go places. I also love how the gameplay is I love how you can actually fish but one thing is for sure I wish you can get more money for each fish and when you’re done with all the upgrades why don’t you make more? I wish there was like more levels so when you finish buying all the things there could be more things you can buy because after it’s not that much fun, so yeah these are the changes I would like you to make and overall it’s really really I love this game. I could play it all night all day every day and there’s nothing else I would rather play so so I really would like you to make the changes and please read this message because I love this game and I would really want to play even more so please see my respond bye.

Nice to see you again, sailors! We’ve got some updates and bug fixes on deck: Bug Fixes - Fixed bug occurring in No Fishing levels that populated with a Jelly that removed fish from your Hook. - Resolved issue of Gun Roulette not activating in Pro Fishing and Fly Fishing levels. - Rebalanced difficulty and fish requirements for Gun Roulette.

Version 1.0.16 12/16/2025

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