Fish Tycoon free online game
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Quick verdict
Game:
Fish Tycoon
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Footprint score:
3/5
Fish Tycoon will appeal to people who have patience, like to experiment and enjoyed those 90s screensavers that looked like aquariums. It's fun, but limited.
What's it about?
Starting with just one breeding/holding tank, a small amount of cash and an unpromising fish shop, you have to breed ever rarer fish and sell them to little kids and their parents.
The problem is, the more exotic fish are needier. They require better environments, better food and better medicine when they get sick.
Breeding fish is about as simple as it gets. You put an adult fish in the breeding tank, grab another and drop it on the first one. Hey presto, the first fish is pregnant. If you cross-breed the fish, new breeds will be discovered.
One interesting aspect of gameplay in Fish Tycoon is that when you log out, things continue to develop in your absence. (This also happens in the Plant Tycoon download game.)
Good news for impatient people who can't sit staring at a virtual fishtank all day, but not so good if you are about to go on vacation and have just discovered a new rare variety!
Once you have bred your fish and they have grown up, move them to the sale tank, slap price tags on them and open for business. Before long, families will come in looking for new pets. They take their sweet time, but if you care to study their thought bubbles, you can gain valuable insight into what your customers want.
The cash you make from fish sales can be re-invested in the business. And that's about it. Eventually your goal is to breed the seven secret fish types, but you may be having too much fun to worry much about that!
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Pros and cons+ Very relaxing fishtank mode, rather like the tropical fish screensavers that hypnotized millions of us in the mid-90s.
+ Fun to breed fish and see what pops out; another good game to drop in and fiddle with for ten minutes every few hours.
+ Quite addictive and very challenging to discover and sell enough fish to make ends meet.
- If you're the hands-on, Tycoon-addicted type like me, you will become frustrated by the slow pace.
- Horrendous character sprites during the shop mode bring down the graphical tone a few notches. And they are SO SLOW about their shopping. I'd like to see some kind of time lapse mode for the shop.
The verdict
Fish Tycoon is a free online game you should download if you're remotely interested in the subject matter. People who want a faster game should definitely avoid it, but others will be pleasantly surprised at how much fin-- sorry, FUN, this is!
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