Between semesters, we found a bit of free time - and since many of you are still enjoying Desktop Fishing daily, we couldn’t resist adding some new fish to the game.

As of today, 10 new fish have joined the pond!
Each biome now features two additional species, complete with their own flavor texts and little details to discover.

We hope you have as much fun with them as we did coming up with their ideas! And as mentioned before: you keep your previously achieved achievements (catching all fish etc.), so don't worry about that :)

We’ve also bigtime-updated our story-adventure Frog Holm to version 1.1 . Check out our bundle - especially since it’s currently at its biggest sale yet!

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/bundle/71085/Ostend_Games_Frogs_Catch_and_Mix/

Our entire team is about to start writing our master’s theses, so there are no further updates planned for the time being..

Wish us luck. We’ll need it.

Love,
Ostend Games

you left us a lot of feedback under the last update - thank you for that, we really appreciate it!

Also over the past months, we’ve repeatedly received feedback about the achievements being extremely hard to obtain. We want to address that now.

We completely understand that the chances for the final achievements were too harsh. When we last adjusted them, we still held on to the idea of “this should be super grindy so it feels prestigious to catch the rarest fish.” What we underestimated, however, is that many players are still playing Desktop Fishing simply to complete the achievements and then move on - which is totally fair.

The last two achievements are now achievable in around 200 hours on average. Of course, depending on luck, it may take a bit less or more. The catch X Amount of fish achievements also have been nerfed.

We’ve also made a change that will likely be especially interesting for new players:

• You can now access the full idle mode (incuding not stopping on new fish) from the very beginning

• There is no rank requirement anymore

These mechanics were originally designed to extend Desktop Fishing over time with more content and a broader variety of fish and features. Unfortunately, continuing that approach is no longer possible for us.

We know this update comes late. The past six months have been quite turbulent for us. We released our second game, Frog Holm, which was on a completely different scale compared to Desktop Fishing.

If you’re interested, feel free to check out Frog Holm - it’s currently on sale until April 2nd and even cheaper if you already own Desktop Fishing.

TL;DR Desktop fishing is not that deep 🕊️ Everything easier to obtain

ribbit

Ostend Games