I’ve a terrific thought! Let’s kick off the weekend by getting hooked on Curious Fishing (opens in new tab). It is free, it is enjoyable, it is crammed with recent fish, and it runs proper in your browser. Play just a few ranges and I assure you will not need to cease till you’ve got solved all of them.
This is not a standard fishing minigame. Curious Fishing, created by developer RhythmLynx (opens in new tab) (and dropped at my consideration by Wholesome Games (opens in new tab)) is a puzzle recreation. Drop your hook within the water and transfer it in 4 instructions with WASD, the arrow keys, or by clicking on the simulated controller’s d-pad. Your objective is to hook every fish in every of the 30 ranges. At first that is simple sufficient: simply steer your hook to every of the 4 fish in degree one, then faucet the spacebar to reel them in. However issues get extra difficult the deeper you go, and every new fish you uncover is a bit completely different.
Squid, appropriately, squirt ink once you hook them, which blocks just a few squares so you’ll be able to’t pull different creatures by them. For those who hook a fish and pull it by the stinging tentacles of a jellyfish you will wind up with a fish skeleton in your hook—although which may not be a nasty factor. Crabs may be dragged by obstructions, letting you clear a path for the remainder of the fish you are after. On later ranges there’s even a turn-based problem with little inexperienced fish that transfer one sq. every time you progress your hook. Catching all of them is gonna take some actual thought and planning.
There are some fairly fiendish puzzles, too, and every new degree provides a brand new twist to the combination, like one the place a number of crabs must be fished out however every time you accumulate one your fishing line grows shorter, that means you may make fewer strikes. Regardless of some actually difficult ranges, Curious Fishing does not ever need you to emphasize. You may undo your strikes, reset the extent with out penalty, and skip any degree you are having bother with so you will by no means really feel such as you’re hitting a wall.
There’s even a bit aquarium in the primary menu that collects all of your completely different catches so you’ll be able to admire them whereas taking a break, and you’ll customise your fisherperson and even modify the management scheme on the simulated handheld recreation deck you are enjoying on. (And for those who find it irresistible, you’ll be able to donate to the developer through the hyperlink just under the sport’s window.) Strive it out! (opens in new tab) It will make your Friday enjoyable and fishy.