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Spirit Fishing - Cozy GameJam 2026's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #18 | 4.600 | 4.600 |
| Theme | #53 | 4.133 | 4.133 |
| Overall | #76 | 3.456 | 3.456 |
| Polish | #94 | 3.133 | 3.133 |
| Limitation | #97 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Gameplay | #101 | 2.933 | 2.933 |
| Audio | #112 | 2.933 | 2.933 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I love the huge variety of creatures you can catch, kinda reminds me of Pokemon. The fishing does get old a bit quickly, but it's still relaxing. I hope you continue working on this, because it has a lot of potential!
Very calm, relaxing experience! the faint calm music, the gorgeous autumn forest background, the fun fish designs, the occasional appearance of the spirit - it's all lovely!
A few things that occured while i was playing - i was able to fish even when standing next to the chest and when the bag was open, a few times i misclicked and accidentally started fishing. And when i tried fishing with my bag full the next fish i caught was just floating on top of the character, and it didn't go away after i tried selling some things to empty the space in the bag. It was the spirit fish, the translusent one, and it was actually kinda cute, like the fisher was carrying it's favorite fish with them!
Overall, i adore the atmosphere. Really makes you feel like it's a warm autumn afternoon :]
Gorgeous environment. The leaves periodically falling, combined with the calming music, made everything feel so peaceful. I could just sit there and enjoy the scenery. The fishing minigame was fun too, and I liked seeing the little spirits. Seems like you had a really strong foundation here, and I'd love to see what else you have in store for it. Really lovely little game.
I liked the calm fishing vibes, and the scenery was very peaceful with the spirits playfully poking about! Good job!
The fish art and scenery are so beautiful. The music kinda chill also. Nice game to chill and relax. I thought the spirits are going to steal the fishes but they just pet the player.
Not sure if you know, you can just spam spacebar during the minigame to collect the fish, i.e. there's no penalty for missing.
I really like this game! Great work! Art of the fish collection is so cute
Thank for making this relaxing and cozy game :D
very cute and relaxing. I really like the art, I think the lake newt is my favourite of the little guys i caught.
Thank you for playing! The Newt was first just a placeholder but it grew on me so had to keep it ❤️ so makes me glad that you like them! A precious Lil guy!
Hi, I've encountered a problem I kinda wanna address before giving my review. I'm not able to sell my fish even though I go to the leftmost box and press B. I have tried clicking and pressing every key on my keyboard. Can you tell me how to progress???
Hi! Thank you for asking before reviewing! Means alot! Currently in the build it's less of a "open shop" and more that you can sell from. Your bag whenever you stand by the box.
So it should (unless it's a bug and there are sadly some) be enough to go up to the box -> open your bag with "B" -> beside each fish there should now be a moneybag icon that you can click (as long as you stand near the chest that will be highlighted) and get the money!
Sorry if it's a bit hard. If there was more time I planed to make a seperate ahop but ran out of time. 😅
But hope that helps and thank you for playing and caring enough to ask ❤️
Super cozy, I just kept releasing every fish I caught lol
I can see it be a banger idle/desktop pet-esk game, nice work!
Thank you for playing! A true fish friend I see! Which is totaly the real way to play the game (since you can't even do anything with the money LOL)
Thank you! Been wondering how I could change it in the future to be more fun to play so this made me think! Thank you! And thanks you for the work on the jam! Thanks for having me!
such a relaxing game and beautiful art!
Thank you for playing and thank you for the kid words! Makes me so happy that the art was liked ❤️
Very cozy fishing game with a beautiful art style! It was lovely and relaxing to play, and there’s plenty of potential to expand on it. Well done!
Thank you for playing! I'm so glad to hear that people enjoyed it even if it's a bit small right now hahha! Yeah been thinking of future potentials so it's so fun to hear you guys give ideas! Thank you!
The art is great, I love the style! Lots you could do with this if you continued :)
Thank you for playing! As a primary artist that comment warms my heart! Thank you! Wanted to reeeally go on the cozy and have started thinking how it could be changed/added for the future! Thank you!
The art and animations for this game are gorgeous! I already had a great time even with what's there, but SFX for fishing and selling could add so much to the player experience. There's potential here, and great work!
Thank you so much for playing! <3
Makes me so happy to hear that the art (which is my main hobby) is liked! And yeeah the sound was added like 1 hour before deadline 😂 forgot to add the sound even though I did add them to the project hahha! Typical GameJam stress 😂😂
But thank you so much!
really nice artwork! gameplay is pretty fun and cozy, but maybe a little bit boring.
anyways great overall!
Thank you for playing! And I'm glad you like the art thank you! Hahha yeeah I didnt have as much time as I had hoped to evolve it beyond fishing but hope it was cozy atleast <3 thank you!
Very nice game, lovely art style and vibe!
Thank you so much for playing! And thank you <3 As a mainly Artist that is the highest praise for me!