Это скорее не рыбалка, а симулятор туриста в национальном парке с возможностью ловить рыбу, судя по тому как отнеслись к реализации самой рыбалки.

Минусы:
Вода выглядит ужасно, причем в более старых и фиговеньких рыбалках с этим дело обстояло лучше (исправить реально)
Нельзя ходить после забрасывания снасти, это бред какой-то (исправить реально)
Нет анимации как рыбу вытаскивают, вместе этого черный экран и вот уже персонаж держит ее в руках (реально сиправить)
Оптимизация средняя, у меня в 1080р 2060с видяшка напрягается конечно на ультрах, но фпс держит уверенно (Поправят скорее всего)
Чистейшая аркада, для некоторых будет плюсом (Не исправят уже)
Странная анимация рыбы на крючке и вообще (Поправят, но шансов не много)
Персонажи все убого выглядят, как маникены ожившие, я бы даже сказал крипово (не исправят)
Есть гличи с той же водой и вокруг выделенных предметов (Исправят)
Баги с прогрессией заданий и по мелочи (Исправят)
Текстура воды попадает в лодку (Исправят)
Нет камеры от третьего лица в транспорте, не очень удобно, но не критично (Может добавят)
Всего 12 видов рыб и 1 карта на релизе. (Исправят платно в видел DLC)

Плюсы:
Очень красивая природа, кроме воды, много цветов, растительности, бабочек и так далее.
Много активностей кроме рыбалки, тут целый пласт геймплея с туризмом, фото, нахождением всякого, вышками и т.п.
Огромная карта с горами, реками, лесами, но по сути однотипными водоемами с одной и той же рыбой в них.
Быстрое перемещение, транспорт.
Можно кастомизировать персонажа, покупать одежду и всякие примочки.
Низкая цена.

Брать по скидке, лучше наверное через годик-два, когда контента завезут, исправят все, в чем сомнений нет. Ибо охота от них же очень даже годная.

Симулятором рыбалки здесь и не пахнет
Графика 8/10
Вода 3/10
Симуляция вываживания 1/10
Анимация заброса 2/10
Поведение рыбы 2/10
Реалистичность игры - Отсутсвует от слова совсем. Тут тебе не поводков, не теста удилища и передаточного числа катушек. Просто аркада которую перенесли с телефона на ПК подтянув графику, в надежде срубить бабла.
Установил компоненты и ловишь, вот и всё... Ещё после заброса персонаж забывает как ходить.
Ужасная игра...

С релизами от Avalanche Studio и Expansive Worlds мы уже знакомы. Благо, они свои руки от tHC убрали. Там более одарённые люди работают, не покладая рук, зашкуривая все косяки, что вышеперечисленная конторка сумела натворить.

theHunter CoTW мы тоже не забыли. И вот. На рынок симуляторов рыбалки, коих пруд пруди, выкатилось нечто похожее на мобильную игру.

♢ Поплавка не видать, только индикатор справа интерфейса
♢ Все помнят лица в CoTW, так и тут ещё хуже. Я скажу больше, если выбрали мужика, довольствуйтесь мужчиной с грудями 2 размера. И выбора нет!

В общем поиграл до первого вылета (минут 20), потом подумал, что, наверно, вот-вот и меня ждёт эффект "Вау". Эффекта не случилось. Отправил запрос на возврат.

Я понимаю, что некоторые игры невозможно полноценно оценить и понять за 2 часа игры. Но я поиграл 54 минуты, и с игрой всё ясно.

P.S. И не верьте тизерам и роликам от этой конторки. Это они делать умеют. Игры - нет!

Не покупайте. Разработка прекращена.

I dunno, man.
I really, REALLY tried to like this game, gave it plenty of time, tried everything it has to offer. I was so excited when I saw it was being developed!
Sadly, it’s just not a fishing game. More like an exploration game with fishing elements where the fishing feels more like an afterthought than the core.
My experience was as follows:

- I decided to log my 2-hour (120 minute) gaming session according to what activity I was doing within the game. I was completing challenge missions on the mission board. The challenges were fishing challenges, but they all required the player to reach or find a specific location. End result: time I spent walking/driving/finding the right spots on the map: 100 minutes. Time I spend fishing: 20 minutes.

- The maps are very large and you are expected to travel to lookout towers in order to unlock markers for locations on your map, then travel to said markers in order to “discover” the locations. The problem, is, while this works perfectly for theHunter, it’s extremely annoying in the Angler. Why? Because in theHunter, walking is what you’re supposed to do. You walk slowly from location to location and hunt while doing it. It’s exciting and gives the player a logical route to take. But the Angler is a fishing game. So walking and driving only takes away from fishing because it’s not like I’m gonna find some random fish in the middle of the road. Most of the missions in the game are 90% traveling and 10% fishing. A lot of the missions (especially in the Norway map) contain no fishing at all.

- The game lacks purely fishing related missions. I finished them all very quickly and then I was left with nothing to do except many tedious flower collecting missions etc...

- The traveling itself is very slow and frustrating. The cars are buggy and you can’t reach many map locations with a car to begin with. Walking is slow, extremely time-consuming and boring.

- It takes a long time to unlock locations on the map, but not all unlocked locations give you a fast travel point. I can’t understand why this is. Every single waterbody etc. should be a fast travel point as the player gains nothing from making multiple walking trips to the same location.

- The game runs pretty bad. I can run TheHunter 70+ fps on ultra graphics, this runs barely 25-30 fps on medium-low. My rig is well above the recommended specs.

- The game crashes a lot. About once every 30 minutes or so.

- The credit/xp system is needlessly complicated. There are literal conspiracy theories on how it actually works because no-one seems to know for sure. What’s wrong with getting a bit of credits/xp for each fish? Just adjust fish worth according to size/rarity etc. The current system is just weird makes fishing feel less rewarding.

- It makes no sense to have a level/xp system in the game if there are no skills to unlock or level requirements for gear. What’s the point?

- The gear is needlessly complicated also. There should be some sort of assistance in pairing rods/reels/lines as the current system leads to people wasting credits on parts that should fit the rest of the gear but just...won’t. The leveling of gear is also a mess similar to the main xp/credit system.

- Tedious inventory restrictions. The player can carry 5 rods and 5 reels with himself at all times but there’s no space for bread crumbs in his pocket if he also carries a selection of different hooks. Have the devs ever heard of a tackle box? (And yes, they come in bigger sizes.) This doubles down on the missing fast travel spots in it’s tiresomeness. Let’s say your mission is to go to a specific spot. Only after you reach said spot will you be told what kind of fish you need to catch. Not carrying the exact tackle you need? You have to fast travel back to the shop to access your storage, and then walk all the way back to the mission spot because there’s no fast travel location anywhere near. Just… why? I really really hope tackle boxes and storage boxes aren’t a problem the devs invented on purpose just to offer paid DLC as a solution later.

- The achievements in the game downright discourage fishing. Most of the achievements revolve around exploration, points of interest, collectibles, you name it. The actual fishing related ones are easy and fast to get. It would have been nice to get some long-term fishing achievements to work towards.

- The fishing itself is not very intuitive. I get that the developers were trying to achieve “realism”, but it’s important to remember that this is a game and games are supposed to be fun. The game won’t allow you to just pick a random spot and throw your bobble into the water because the fish spawn at very specific locations. This means that a lot of the water area doesn’t have fish spawns at all, thus you can’t pick a spot at random and catch a fish. You have to go around looking at the water and physically see the fish you want to catch before commencing the actual fishing. I don’t know about the devs but I’ve been fishing at a freshwater lake for almost 30 years and as long as you sit down, have a bait of some sort and just wait, you’ll always catch something sooner or later. And no, I don’t need to circle the lake for hours trying to make eye-contact with the fish before choosing a spot. I can see that many others had this same complaint of not catching any fish if they just wanted to fish intuitively.

- The missions at the Norway map disappointed me deeply and they are the reason why I’m writing this review. The developers got A LOT of backlash for focusing on exploration over fishing. I was expecting them to listen to their customers when making the Norway reserve. But to my astonishment, they doubled down on the exploration! The new map has missions that forego fishing completely and just send you running around, looking for “clues” and “caches”. The hints given are pretty bad and I just can’t imagine who thought this would be a good idea / fun for anyone. The results speak for themselves, no-one even cares enough to make guide on how to finish these missions.

All and all this is one of those “I wonder if they actually played their own game before releasing it”- products. It’s more exploration than fishing. And, sadly, it’s more tedious than fun.
I wouldn't be this harsh if the game was in early access and by all accounts, it should be in early access. But it's not so I waited a few months and then took it at face value.

Поиграл полчаса, прошел обучение, мне хватило чтобы преисполниться.
Диванные критики которые говорят, "кококо, мало наиграл" - идут лесом.
Механика примитивная, процесс неинтересный, сделанная на ЮНИТИ и то в разы превосходит эту поделку.
Вода. Что с водой? Кто делал воду? Кто отвечал за её анимацию и внешний вид? Это ужасно. Это бл?ть отвратительно.
На фоне красивых видов всю картину портит одно из главных в рыбалке - вода, она никакая.
Порадовало наличие транспорта и большая карта, удивлен был, когда увидел машины с адекватным управлением.
Реалистичность тоже забавная, ловить окуней (бассов) на хлеб, вы серьезно?

Оценка 2 воды из 10. Можно брать по скидке когда допилят, если это произойдет, а так - проходняк.

Игра настолько сырая, что должна быть бесплатной как минимум...Но я бы в такую играл только если бы мне за это платили!

Welp... this is quite embarrassingly poor and disappointing. As someone who has checked fishing every year on both editions of theHunter's yearly surveys, this just hurts. I've sunk some time into it, and the best way that I can describe it is that they played the telephone game with experienced anglers trying to communicate fishing to game designers, then to a bunch of programmers whose outside experience was limited to hiking to the bus stop, then actually made by interns on a serious crunch.

For the uninitiated, the game is a dual fishing/exploration experience, which is a fantastic concept, and that has absolutely massive potential, with exploration being rewarding too. It is made in one of the most beautiful open world engines out there, after all.

Here are my biggest gripes about the core of the game:
- Buggy. Very, very buggy. Feels like a late alpha build.
- Graphics. Performance for me is good on Ultra, but I have a beefy computer that can handle it. The details are what makes this a problem. Aggressive distance object culling results in eye-sore landscapes, as anything beyond a certain point is barren except from a few 2D bushes and trees. Top that off with FXAA or no AA making those 2D objects really pixelly and unbearable to look at, so TAA is you're only option. Also, V-Sync causes horrible stuttering (almost like an fps drop), and is particularly bad in cutscenes, where it appears like 13 fps while the camera is flying around. Kinda makes you sick.
- The water primarily is the issue here, and is kind of a massive portion of the game. Clearly Apex wasn't designed to handle dynamic water, and I'm guessing making it was taking up too much of EW's time, so a functioning prototype was just put in. There are no waves, just simple movement in some wind direction, or a flowing texture in rivers, without any actual flow. On top of it all, it's surface is just weird, it's like it got blurred out of existence. Bobbers/floats are extraordinarily tiny, and are nearly invisible due to that blurring effect. It's probably worst on Lake Delirium, near the hot springs, where it's basically blue pool water, and it looks like someone spilled blue void paint and fish are swimming in air sometimes.
- Steering for both boat and vehicle M&K is progressive (haven't tried on controller yet), which results in excessive swerving, since a tap is too little, and a short press is too much. It's a much bigger problem on vehicles, though. Something a little more definite would be nice.
- Dialogue can be quite cringy and annoying. Particularly Sophia being a jabber-jack. Having a reduced dialogue option would be nice, since simply turning it off ruins portions of the world.
- Lighting could use some work, particularly around dawn/dusk. As someone who lives in the mountains, it's not quite like someone just turned the lights off when the sun goes behind the mountains.
- Having the ability to change time of day would also be nice. Want to target species that prefer nighttime? Well, pull up your favorite meme page and wait.
- Are you American and don't want to use the Metric system? Well too bad! Even though you've changed your preference to Imperial, most of the measurements are still in Metric, and what is in Imperial has the wrong units. Nobody measures their fish in yards, rarely feet, and almost always in inches. In fact, I'm pretty sure most Metric anglers don't use meters to measure their fish. Units could use to be revised.
- Character customization is awfully lackluster and uncreative. Makes buying apparel pretty much non-existent.
- Missions are often cryptic and sometimes they seem like they just forgot to add in the important stuff. How to Catch a Whitefish - Step 1, get the recommended gear. Okay, what is the recommended gear? It doesn't tell you anywhere, and doesn't allow you to accept anything else until you've completed that.

Exploration:
It's not bad, surprisingly. The only aspect of the game that isn't entirely broken.

Now the fishing aspect of the game... oh boy.
- You have some Ultra-Polarized X-Ray Vision Sunglasses equipped, and you can magically see any and all fish in the water. Makes the fishing dumb and predictable. Oh, there's a fish, I'll just cast to it, and clearly it's working, and I can just watch it take my bait. There is sight fishing in real life, but it's usually in really shallow and/or clear water - the trick is that they can see you too, which these fish don't seem to care too much about.
- Casting is awful. No matter what, you will always cast the same distance, or 2/3 of that with the short cast. No rod, reel, or line combo is going to change that. You shouldn't be able to jig when you cast your line like you do. There's also not an option to let line out, either, so you can jig if you wanted to.
- Once you catch a fish, physics leaves the chat. Reeling in a tired fish bends your rod nearly in half, and puts your line tension up excessively high, meanwhile a fish pulling drag only puts the force meter to your drag setting, and your rod barely reflects that that fish is pulling. The whole point of a drag system is to limit the maximum force exerted on the line, yet simply pumping the rod will nearly max out the tension, entirely bypassing the drag system.
- Speaking of tired fish, well, they don't sometimes. I've seen and caught numerous fish landed with drastically underpowered equipment. I've landed a pissed off 15lbs carp that I foul-hooked in the dorsal on an ultralight rod with 6lb-test line that I was using to catch stocked trout, simply because I managed tension and eventually tired the fish out. In game, I fought with a fish for over 7 minutes, and it just refused to get tired, and you end up in a stalemate with the fish, and you've got to break or cut the line.
- The game description says it realistically places fish based on time, habitat, and temperature, yet you find fish in the most questionable locations. For instance, largemouth bass near the surface in the middle of a lake at 30 meters depth at midday with no cover at 50°F... yeah, that doesn't happen. I can say that with certainty and experience, as I grew up in Wyoming (where Golden Peaks Reserve is supposed to be located) fishing for these exact fish species.
- Some lures attract fish they shouldn't, and some don't attract any. Soft plastics are a joke, and I haven't been able to catch a single fish with any soft-plastics. Trout rarely go after top-water hardbaits like poppers and frogs, but they do in game, sometimes absolutely nothing will be attracted to a spinner (even though that's a universal lure, really). Then baits are sometimes really weird. Nothing wants to bite on a worm? Really? Everything will eat a worm, especially panfish like bluegill, and I'm surprised that they just don't have any effectiveness. Also the preferred baits listed in the handbook often times have absolutely no effect on the intended species.
- Fish are slow and dumb. Since you can see all the fish, you can tell when they're interested in your lure - but they just can't catch up to it, but aren't attracted to a slower retrieve that they can catch up with. Really frustrating sometimes.
- The UI is weird an unintuitive. When bobber fishing, the UI in the corner barely reflects the state of the bobber, and you can usually just look at memes and wait for the audio cue, rather than actually watch your bobber (if you could) or the UI. When spin fishing, you've got a random powering up bar that looks like it belongs on some random piece of tech in a random 80's sci-fi film that really has no effect on gameplay other than being annoying. Also, you've got two more numbers that at least on indicated depth of the lure, and the other, no idea - I presume it tells you in the spin fishing tutorial, but it's bugged.

There's still more, but my fingers hurt and I hit the character limit, so that's all I've got.

Okay, I hate to waste time leaving reviews in general let alone negative ones but i feel compelled to do so here.

I wanted to like this game and I gave it a fair shot at over 30 hours played.. and...eh..

The visuals are fine, i see complaints about the water. It didn't bother me and thought it worked/looked fine. The species of fish were fine to me and amount. I liked the rods and reels..I enjoyed the cosmetics, etc.. all of what I like is aesthetic though, it finally hit me.

The game just doesn't know what it wants to be.

I DO NOT understand why we cannot keep our fish as trophies. This instantly turned a friend of mine off of the game. They literally asked ('but we can put our big catches in the lodge right'??). NOPE. sorry. you must release all fish and you cannot keep any as actual trophies. I mean we have lodges in hunter. just link the lodge through apex connect and let us keep fish trophies. sorry no. just toss it back and move on. PETA wouldn't approve.?

I DO NOT understand why we cannot simply invite a friend to play with us like their other hunting game. Oh no. here we MUST create an account and login, then join some server and join with a bunch of randos. Like this is some MMO type of game or something. this is horrible. All I wanted to do was jump into some fishing with a friend of mine. just us, very simple. but no. you need an account, you have to login, you have to join some rando server etc.. i mean why? why is this so convoluted when their other game is not.. no ty.

I DO NOT understand why we need to run around and collect sticks, bugs, bark and other stuff in this park.. I want to fish. period. nothing else. This isn't a hunting game where you are already in the woods roaming around and naturally come upon a point of interest. In this game you want to be on or next to the water fishing. NOT roaming the shire looking for random stuff Bilbo has laying around or diseased trees with full fishing gear on. This is ridiculous. This all needs to be removed. A simple solution? Just make some quests where we can get plastic out of the lakes, or maybe fish up old line and hooks, etc. you know stuff that you may do while actually fishing and not something that has you running around mines and mountains like you are in Moiria headed to Mordor..

I DO NOT understand why the handbook is so limited and lacking. Sorry I cant remember 70 dang types of lures and hook sizes and baits and what sizes exactly go with what etc.. The hand book gives you some basic idea of the fish and what they like. but it is severely lacking hook sizes. At least the handbook should add things to the fish 'description' when you try it and it works.. so ..you know, you can go back and look. because that's great if you are a pro fisher, I'm not and there is no way i'm going to remember all the baits and hook sizes that go with every type of fish and then add the 'ranks' on top of that. its just not happening. The book should add things or info as we go along or unlock new 'finds' so we can simply find that info later on. because I am def not remembering all this and I'm not making spreadsheets for this GAME.

Speaking of the hooks and whatnot. They make no sense to me. I've been fishing a bit, no where near a pro lol, but I'm not completely ignorant. I'm sorry this game needs some serious leeway.. You need to be exact literally exact to catch fish in my 30+ hour experience I've found. You need (just an example I'm making up) a size #4 hook to catch LM Bass. okay. If you use a #3. NOPE. sorry. bass don't even think its there. This is so game breaking and nauseating to have to be THAT exact with fishing. I've been fishing I have caught some bluegill with very large hooks, almost comical but they got hooked somehow, and the exact opposite has happened too with a larger fish swallowing a small hook or getting it stuck in gills. This game. you need to be 100% using the literal exact # hook size or the fish ignore the bait. At least make it so the fish attempt the 'bite'.. the game could adjust and give the fish a % chance to throw the hook or become free if it goes for a #3 over the 'needed' #4 for bass. its just off-putting how this is done and feels in game, having to be literally so exact on-the-nose.

The issue above also makes the game.. boring after my 30+ hours. I know if i cast this exact bait with this hook # then I am getting a gold like every time with a silver tossed in here and there. This just needs to be way more random, which goes along with what i stated above. Its just to literal and on-the-nose.

Can we get 3rd person boats and 'jeeps'?

Can we make 'jeeps' not feel like they are on ice.?

Can we please be allowed to change the time of day? I would like to be able to fish at night time with out having to wait an entire day cycle to do so and then feel rushed.. Makes it not-so-fun to find those catfish spots.

Can we fish bobber-less please, just drop bait down into the lake. like Cheese, weight, drop over board for those bottom feeders?

Can we fish up random stuff? like.. Line, Hooks, garbage maybe, the odd turtle here or there, etc. Also tie the quests to this type of stuff, not the shire/bilbo item collecting crap.

I could go on but I am going to stop here at this point.

This game IMO should of been made into the next map of Hunter CoTW along with the hunting. A full 'outdoor' experience. As a stand alone game this game is just kind of a mess and goes in different directions and tries things that just do not work out at all, and leaves some things out completely that we are use to from the hunting game..

As is stands now I am sorry but I did give this game a fair shot and i did want to like and really enjoy it. But i just cannot and do not recommend this game to others as it stands now. There are just to many 'issues' once the 'pretty back round' phase has passed.

sorry this is a no-buy IMO..

If you are looking for a complete fishing simulation game look elsewhere.

The game was released in an Alpha state but treated as a full release. While the game has come a fair ways from the release state it is still an early release at beast in playability. I personally am still experiencing the day one issue of not having fishing spots trigger and mark on my map. The graphics are a far cry from their older game running on their previous engine. The fact that they have worked to improve the water graphics and physics shows that none of these were done pre-release but could have been if a larger team, more time, or an honest appraisal and statement by the developer of the current state of the game from the start.

All in all 4/10 with the possibility to improve once they put a full development team on the title

UPDATE 11/10/22

The challenger update did nothing to resolve the issues that have been raised. The community team will also harass you in their discord for having any opinion that is contrary to theirs and will ban you if you dont back down or allow them to continue to harass you with other members of their community.