Idle Fishing Story Reviews

Glitches on and off but if that type thing doesn’t bug a person , overall it’s a great way to relax. I’m annoyed that you guys don’t update social media. You don’t update the game levels. You don’t seem interested in spending anymore effort on this game. I’ve hit the max level three times now. I lost my progress each time and had to start over. Having said that , (points finger) somebody come to work at some point this year and add some more levels for those of us that actually like IdleFishingStory.

I love this game until the last few days on the new event every time I make a purchase it says it was completed then the game turns off. My card has been charged but when I open the game back my purchase did not take effect. Unfortunately I’ve played this game for almost a year now and about to delete it and find another game to play because of this. Please refund the money that has been lost in this glitch.

Support is no help being close 70% of the week. You can play the event even spend gems , play for two - three hours and get off. Come back later and find out everything is reset back to the day before, your gems are gone still. Figured the first time was maybe switch back maps from event to make sure. But no still happen again. Why would I want to play a game that won’t keep my game saved up even from switching between the event and main game. With bug this bad, I will not play any of this company’s games again.

Update to the response:
Pointless to contact them, tried and no response still till this day. Contacted them two days before this bad review

I know these apps are made to make money, but I am not a fan when they restrict advancing in the game unless you spend money or answer multiple surveys and have you sign up for things. I got stuck on the 4th level and after playing for a good 30 minutes, realized I couldn’t go further unless I either bought gems or answered a bunch of scam -laden surveys for a few free gems. Besides this annoyance, which caused me to delete the game, I was actually enjoying the design and gameplay. Probably would have even spent money later on so I could advance faster or get different captains...(and what the crap is it with making you watch a 30 second ad for only 300 coins??)

I honestly enjoyed this game, played mostly the events until I noticed an issue with what my earnings during the event were and what they were reported as on the leaderboard. I messaged support during 3 different events and each time got the response of we will forward it to our development team. Ok cool but at the same time this can cost you to get less rewards during the event which can make playing the regular game a lot more difficult.

Up until the recent update, ads were only presented when you chose them. Watching an ad for a chest, or a four hour bonus, was worth it!

But with the last update, I’ve been getting ads (specifically for one game) that pop up at random, with no benefit. I’ve accidentally tapped on them while trying to do other things, and the most recent one even made the rest of the game non-interactive, so I had to close out entirely to be able to play again.

If there were a “remove ads” IAP, or if they at least didn’t have interstitial ads, I’d keep playing, but as it is, it’s not worth continuing.

Pros: The basic premise here is, you have 3 systems that all need to be leveled to make money: your boats to catch the fish, your dock to transport the fish, and your truck to take the fish away and sell them. The idea is that you should keep an eye on how productive all 3 systems are, and not waste money over-leveling one, since it won’t do any good if the other 2 can’t keep pace. You’re always looking to hit the next tier of upgrades, which gets you a significant boost in productivity, and helps you work past any bottlenecks. This was originally a very fun balancing act, and has a lot of potential.

Cons: Now I’m on level 6, and I’ve hit a massive bottleneck with my trucking upgrades. Currently sitting on a backlog of 233 billion fish, even though I only collect about 5 million/sec. And there’s no end close in sight to the next tier of upgrades. I’m at least 3 days away before I can clear the bottleneck. I’m not sure if this is an accidental balancing issue, or an intentional one to direct me toward premium currency. Either way, this needs fixing if it’s going to stay interesting.

Interesting game but massive problems with the curve and getting pearls. Game looks good but has a very high pay to advance factor hit a wall pretty early. Monetization is heavily integrated into gameplay developers are being a bit aggressive early on and would be better being less greedy. Free pearls are far to rare to keep playing.

I’ve been plying this game forever. I wish you didn’t take away the floating chests in the events, it really helped out. Like I’m not trying to spend all of my gems on one event and I also do not want to pay a lot to get gems.
I do wonder if you guys will ever update the main game? I’ve reached the last level and maxed out all my boats/captains so it’s a little boring now.

The basics of the game are there. I believe some things still need to be tweaked. The ramp up from lvl 3 to lvl 4 is pretty steep and long. Chests only give you 300 gold when you watch an ad and I’m sitting with 200million in the bank. Doesn’t make me want to watch an ad. The chests should scale with lvl and money in the bank. Probably see more ad revenue.

Some of the animations are wonky. The guy picking up fish walks backwards? At least give him another animation to walk like you expect him to.

Game is still worth the download if you can get past the fact lvl 4 will take an eternity without using pay options.

I’ve been stuck on one level for over 2 months or so. The goals to move on to next level are so unachieveable I stopped playing the main game. I love the events (even when I use gems and not get the correct amount of $$ doing the skip time). Of course when I reach out to support, the event is over and I can’t provide them with more info/pictures.
My other issue is being stuck on the loading page. It has stayed on the page with barely 5% loaded for a couple hours. I’ve tried restarting my phone, closing the game entirely, and even turning off my WiFi and nothing.

So far it has been a pretty fun and cute game. The story is pretty interesting and the events are extremely fun.
The downside is as you go further and further in levels you hit the issue of a bottle neck because of your trucking (hauling fish away to sell) and your carrying (bring fish caught to the truck). I have a backlog of about 80 billion fish because it takes so long to upgrade those two pieces of the game.

My dockhand is unable to match the speed of my boats and is forced to only bring in the third lowest paying fish while leaving the highest paying catch on the dock. If there was a way to make the dockhand go for the highest value and then work down this wouldn’t be an issue. With bring in the third lowest fish I have stagnated with the amount of money I can bring in from selling the fish.

I play this game nightly, and there’s one major thing I would love to see added/fixed. The dockside person collecting the fish doesn’t pick up any while walking back, which sometimes holds me up on collecting cash. Another issue is while walking twards the boats to collect, it sometimes skips the first few boats and won’t collect the fish. Otherwise this game is ADDICTING!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE that I’m not bombarded with ads every 30 seconds, they let YOU choose if you want to watch one for a reward 🙌🏻 over all i can’t wait too see figures uodates and content for this game!

I like to play this game to pass time at work or other stuff and in the pirate event it is not showing any more achievements to get, so below the bar to fill there is nothing no goals so I cannot progress in the event. Other than that great game and I have had no other problems.

I have been an avid player of this game for at least a year. I have now reached a point where in the longer has locations available for me to progressed to. I would love to play more I even just completed the event and no longer did another one pop up right after. I might have to delete the game if there is no more for me to progress to, but I would rather, there be more levels. Thank you so much for making this game, and if future levels are added, thank you so much for those as well. Tycoons are the best!

Re: Also, anyone saying there are too many ads, the ads are optional for a three hour bonus or for chests and loot you get free anyways. I maybe watch three ads a session and I’ve progress fairly quickly considering I’ve basically beat the game. Don’t listen to them, try it out!

Edit: I was awarded my gems back and appreciate the quick response. Thank you!

Why would you make things that cost exorbitant amounts of gems without a confirmation button? THREE times now I’ve lost my gems trying to scroll down and accidentally touched a captain. There goes my gems and I have asked several times for a refund and have no received one.

I love this game but that is incredibly ridiculous and I will no longer be making in-app purchases until my gems are returned to me.

I like it but there’s been lots of times where I close an ad for the profit booster and it just shuts off IdleFishingStory it’s been happening a lot
More frequently now it’s getting frustrating cause I’m pretty sure you’re still getting paid while we don’t get our simple
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Love playing this game, so fun. However, about every 2 weeks or so, I have issues getting IdleFishingStory to load, like right now. Can’t get it to open at all currently. Need to fix this bug please.

I love idle games but most are boring. When I first saw this I didn’t think it would be fun but it turned out to be very addictive. I LOVE it so much and I can’t hide it. If I didn’t download this game I think I would have died. Anyways,I just want to tell you that you make great content!

So the game is really fun and addicting game mechanics are cool but when a live event started everything seemed fine u til it froze so i exited and closed IdleFishingStory and since then i haven’t been able to open it back up Help!!