Nautical Life

Nautical Life is a fishing tycoon game where your goal is to get rich and expand.

You start off buying your own yacht and sail it to the central sea.
There you go fishing, and fishing, and some more fishing....
On the island there is a Sushi bar and he has a few missions for you.
However, most missions are impossible unless you have a better rod.

You'll need to catch A LOT of fish before being able to buy the better rods and in all honesty, the grinding feels boring af!
You can also buy new yachts or furniture for in your yacht, this way you gain XP and level up, but most things are expensive and you'll need to catch even more fish.
There are boats that you could buy, that will do some fishing for you, but even that just takes way too long.

The music was so incredibly annoying, so I clicked the option to turn off the music, but you still hear annoying sounds and music.
I tried to avoid South Shore just because the music was getting on my nerves.

Overall, The game just feels way too grindy, slow and boring.

Don't listen to the reviews on the discussion page, this game is fantastic, simple casual style gameplay your not racing any timers or must have done by this time drama, take your time. If your low on in game currency buy a few fishing boats wait a day you'll have more money instantly. Then buy more boats level up repeat.

Review copy provided by developer via Curator Connect

Buy a boat, decorate it, and go fishing around the world. Pretty good hook, right? Nautical Life is pretty conspicuously a mobile game, from the tutorial instructions to tap things to the inexplicable need to put aquariums and stereos on your boat to rank up. The actual gameplay though is fishing, a mini-game where you and the fish have randomly oscillating power bars and you have to click when you have more power than the fish. Fish can be sold or turned in to quest givers for money, money gets you better rods and boosts and furniture, and furniture ranks you up to unlock better stuff to buy. Oh, and there are boss fish that unlock new areas to fish in.

I really, really really like the setup for this game, and I was all in on becoming a master… fisherman (not gonna make the obvious joke, sorry), until I saw how the game was balanced. There are different ranks of fish, and the higher ranks have more power and also degrade your overall power meter faster. The way this shakes out is that pretty much any fish above your current rank is uncatchable, because even if you’re a savant at the mini-game your gains will be smaller and your bar will run out faster. I spent an hour grinding up normal fish to get a new rod, which made bronze fish go from impossible to easy, but silver fish were just as impossible as before. The next rod would take hours more to unlock and I’d also need to rank up for it, and honestly I can play a more engaging fishing game as part of Stardew Valley so I see no reason to stick with this.

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