▲ Recommended
43 hrs
WOW, I'm the first reviewer! I LOVE this game for 3 reasons (listed below). I remember when a demo of this first launched on Itchio and you could play the demo in browser without certain effects, I had this running for hours and hours, I only stopped because my browser could not handle all the fish. As soon as this launched on Steam I bought it, day one. For the price you're getting a very unique zen calm experience.
#1: It's Unique.
Tranquil Koi isn't really a clicker type game. You can right click and drop food and feed the Koi fish to make them mature faster but that's not really the point of the game.
#2: It teaches and enforces patience. You don't sit there and click. You buy fish, step away, get some work done, and come back to sell the matured fish.
#3 The long term feeling of progress as you collect all the hundreds of different Koi fish. And there are hundreds of different fish, all uniquely modeled.
===== Suggestions =====
It needs optimization, I've got 60 fish and water reflections and I'm noticing the game starting to slow down. It might be because the code for all the fish are constantly searching for food. Maybe code their AI so that they only search for food when you drop it, and only the fish closest to the food notices and starts swimming in that direction? Or maybe change their animations to use vertex animation.
There's a glitch, I cannot turn off the water and effects. Using the menu to lower them to zero doesn't work, saving and exiting also doesn't work, and doesn't save your settings, but it does save all your progress.
Sorting the fish based on how long they will take to mature would be great. I want to see all my active Koi fish in the list with (23 minutes remaining, 12 minutes remaining etc... for each fish)
Some of the Koi fish are so beautiful I don't want to sell them. There should be a new feature called "My personal Pond" where you can send your favorite fish instead of selling them, so you can keep them.
Add more music. There's a lot of great non-copyrighted calm music all over the internet. You should add it to the game to give more variation to the sound track. Or you can use AI to generate some really amazing nice ambient tracks using Suno.ai.
Anyway thank you so much for this game. It's great, affordable, and so relaxing to have running in the background.
#1: It's Unique.
Tranquil Koi isn't really a clicker type game. You can right click and drop food and feed the Koi fish to make them mature faster but that's not really the point of the game.
#2: It teaches and enforces patience. You don't sit there and click. You buy fish, step away, get some work done, and come back to sell the matured fish.
#3 The long term feeling of progress as you collect all the hundreds of different Koi fish. And there are hundreds of different fish, all uniquely modeled.
===== Suggestions =====
It needs optimization, I've got 60 fish and water reflections and I'm noticing the game starting to slow down. It might be because the code for all the fish are constantly searching for food. Maybe code their AI so that they only search for food when you drop it, and only the fish closest to the food notices and starts swimming in that direction? Or maybe change their animations to use vertex animation.
There's a glitch, I cannot turn off the water and effects. Using the menu to lower them to zero doesn't work, saving and exiting also doesn't work, and doesn't save your settings, but it does save all your progress.
Sorting the fish based on how long they will take to mature would be great. I want to see all my active Koi fish in the list with (23 minutes remaining, 12 minutes remaining etc... for each fish)
Some of the Koi fish are so beautiful I don't want to sell them. There should be a new feature called "My personal Pond" where you can send your favorite fish instead of selling them, so you can keep them.
Add more music. There's a lot of great non-copyrighted calm music all over the internet. You should add it to the game to give more variation to the sound track. Or you can use AI to generate some really amazing nice ambient tracks using Suno.ai.
Anyway thank you so much for this game. It's great, affordable, and so relaxing to have running in the background.
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