Little Crab Fisher

A fun little game.

I'm not sure that I would consider it an idler.
You can play the game as an idler but I think it would add weeks (if not months) to the play time.
I spent 94.5 hours to 100% complete the game and 100% actively played the game.

It is for sure a clicker.
You click on the ship, as you travel between one of 11 destinations, to catch crabs.
Crabs are sold for gold in your home port.
Buy upgrades with the gold.
You deploy traps to try and catch mythical crabs.
There are also treasure chests you must figure out the combination to unlock.

There are timers controlling (12 minutes was the longest that mattered) how often you can do certain things in game.
No big thing just watch YouTube videos.

I had a question that was answered the same day I posted it on game's Discord.
I had one problem with achievements that was corrected within 12 hours via Discord post.

It's worth the asking price imo.

"Little Crab Fisher" is a brainless clicker/incrementer... you know the type, click on stuff to make numbers go up so you can buy stuff to help you click on stuff to make numbers go up so you can buy stuff to... you get the idea. This is notable as a standout because, remarkably, the quality of this particular clicker is far, far below average, putting it on par with some of the worst games on Steam.

What's the game about? Little Crab Fisher is a basic clicker adventure game set in a fantasy sea. The objective is to collect different types of crabs, some mythical, while exploring and possibly uncovering minor secrets. The player repeatedly clicks to fish, gathers crabs, moves around the sea, and upgrades a ship.

In terms of visuals, this features really godawful MS-Paint tier "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. The deplorably bad visuals here come across as an insult to gamers.

It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $3 USD for this. The fact that the developer thought this would be worth money is in fact more amusing than the "game" itself.

Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product.

Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

I love this game. It took about 30 minutes for me to turn from liking it to loving it. It is a very nice change for the games out there now. It is the perfect time waster to just pick up and go.