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Ridiculous Fishing EX app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 9376 ratings )
Games Action
Developer: Vlambeer
Free
Current version: 1.0.6, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 14 Jul 2023
App size: 412.82 Mb

An updated, handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters.

Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory.

An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features:

+ Gorgeous 3D art

+ An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode

+ Exclusive new content

+ Leaderboards

+ Total rewrite from the ground up

+ All new guest fish

+ BikBok™

Based on Vlambeer’s popular 2013 original, Ridiculous Fishing was lovingly handcrafted over the course of two years by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne), Zach Gage (SpellTower, Knotwords, Good Sudoku, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness) and Greg Wohlwend (Threes, Hundreds, TumbleSeed), and remade in collaboration with KO_OP (GNOG, Winding Worlds).

Winner of the Apple Design Award 2013; Nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Awards; Declared Most Important News Story 2011 by industry magazine Control International; Featured in The New York Times

Praise for the original *Ridiculous Fishing*:

"Ridiculous Fishing is such a complete package that its an effortless recommendation." ~ Eli Hodapp (TouchArcade) - (5 / 5)

"Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store." ~ Chris Reed (Slide2Play) - (4 / 4)

"Vlambeers game is, as its title suggests, ridiculous. In its simple, gleeful rhythms of play, its sublime, too." ~ EDGE - (9 / 10)

"One of the most mechanically satisfying experiences youll ever find, and wrapped in a dazzlingly cool aesthetic." ~ Eli Cymet (Gamezebo) - (5 / 5)

"It makes the mass destruction of innocent sea life absolutely adorable." ~ Andrew Webster (The Verge)

"Ive come to think of Ridiculous Fishing as the unofficial game of Wes Andersons movie The Life Aquatic." ~ Rob Hearn (PocketGamer)

"Ridiculous Fishing is from an alternate iPhone gaming universe where Nintendo is the production quality standard and action is everything." ~ Robert Ashley (A Life Well Wasted)

"A rare pearl amidst the endless sardines of iOS games." ~ Chris Bateman (International Hobo)

"Im hooked up to an IV and playing Ridiculous Fishing. One is medicine, the other is a painkiller." ~ Ben Kuchera (PA Report)

"Ridiculous Fishing is something very special." ~ exp. Magazine