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Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet – Entertainment Game Review
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is a Entertainment/Adventure/Family game from Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH, first launched in 8th February 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 101+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet Stand Out
Best of Mac App Store 2016 game now on iOS!
"The funniest mobile game of 2017 if not all time." – gamezebo.com
Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the evil Baron Widebeard in this hilarious adventure game.
Meet an outlandish cast of characters featuring the voice of Tom Baker (Dr Who), and face perplexing challenges in your search for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
• "Overflowing with charm and heart" – Adventure Gamers
• "The puzzles are as perfect as possible" – Just Adventure
• "Incredibly funny" – Gamewatcher
ABOUT THE GAME
Join Nelly and explore a hand-drawn world created by award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King. This is your opportunity to:
• Race aristocrats for fun and profit.
• Commandeer an ancient airship.
• Enter the mind of a monkey wizard.
• Borrow moonshine from a surly Viking.
• Wantonly misuse the word ‘borrow’.
What is Baron Widebeard planning? Can he be stopped? How is a fleet of hypnotised wildfowl involved?
To answer these questions comes Nelly Cootalot: pirate heroine and defender of endangered and adorable creatures. Nelly’s journey will take her from Port Rubicund in the South Seas to the lonely isle of Gloomholm in the icy north. Help Nelly solve puzzles and defeat the most formidable husband and wife team in the bird-kidnapping industry.
FEATURES
• Full voice-acting in English & German.
• A script that will amuse and delight whether you are 9, 19 or 90. (But ONLY those ages.)
• Art & animation in glorious high-definition.
• Puzzles that will tax the world's greatest minds, if they're having an off-day.
• Over 45 unique characters & 35 locations.
• Quaint British spellings = extra letters for free.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
iPad 3, iPhone 5, iPad mini 2, iPod touch 6 or better
MORE PRESS CLIPPINGS
"It’s funny, daft, and the look is incessantly fantastic" – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is one of the funniest games I have played in recent years." (5/5) – Kickstartventures
"Beautiful art, an engaging story, some fun gameplay and snappy dialogue, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is a nice little gem." (9.1/10) – Geeknifty
"If you are a fan of the genre, then The Fowl Fleet should definitely be on your wishlist." (8.3) – Gameramble
"Outstanding puzzle design" (87% ) – adventurecorner
"Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is a brilliant adventure that wonderfully demonstrates quirky British humor and is totally unique." (4.5/5 – Amazing) – The Nerd Stash
"An amazing adventure game. Its story has surprising depth, the characters are lovable, the puzzles are great fun and it wraps it all up in a layer of fantastic humour!" (4.5/5 – AMAZING! ) – The Mental Attic
"Lovingly crafted and amounts to a very relaxing and enjoyable point ‘n click experience." (7: very good) – Techraptor
"A delightful point-and-click romp of swashing and buckling. In short, it’ll straight up charm your knickers off." (Buy it!) – vgblogger
"Tom Baker is in it, which is important." – PC Gamer
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
This version contains mainly minor bugfixes.
Download & Availability
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
A fun, colorful point and click adventure made all the better by running on AppleTV with controller support. Good voice performances, good music and logical, solvable puzzles. Lots of puns on the digital high seas.
Picked up items needed and then they disappear out of inventory. Sticker of singer and it wont give you a second one. Want to go back and start over? Nope! Mad we paid for this now.
Game starts with no captions at all, then forces you to listen to voice commentary, which is beyond annoying. We wish we hadn't purchased this game.
We regret buying this game. We were hoping it would be a fun point in click game similar to the journey down, or night of the tentacle, but it is not. Its really quite dumb. You know its bad, when you have to go through a walk-through five minutes into it, and even the walk-through doesnt make sense. It was a waste of money for us.
This was fantastic. We hope there are more from this developer! Really enjoyed the game play and story line.
We heard about the game from the developers (Alasdair Beckett-King) YouTube channel. For the last few night Ive been playing the game with our 5 and 7 year old at the end of the day. Weve loved the game. The story is funny and the perfect length for a quick game with kids.
Absolutely loved this game. It brought us back to the King's Quest games! It's funny, the characters and voices are great and the animation is perfect. It's just challenging enough to make it fun and some of the quests are wonderfully silly. Aarrrrrgg we hated when it ended.
Super enjoyable game with great humor, fun to play! Love the characters and voicing, really great job. The commentary and closing song were awesome also. Ill be looking back at your first in the series on Steam now.
This game is exceptional. Thanks.
Our game does not work after the whole Jeremy thing.
Our inventory disappears every time after we label the barrels in level 2. We love the game, but am very disappointed that we wasted our money and am not able to finish.
Really enjoyed this point and click adventure. Great story, cool characters and just the right amount of difficulty. Highly recommend.
Well done, yall captured all the fun of adventure games of the Monkey Island era.
Our kids and we enjoyed this game so much that we are going to play it again. Will there be more nelly games for iOS? Had no problems with glitches at all.
Has all the things you come to expect from a good adventure game. Smart fun puzzles, a good amount of objects to pick up, fun storyline that flows, fun original characters and a lot of meaningful gameplay. Great music and voice overs too. We didnt want it to end. Nice job. It saved great, always where we left off and played flawlessly on our iPhone 6S.
This was funny, creative, and made us smile while playing it. Puzzles were exactly the correct difficulty for casual players like ourselves and our daughter.
Totally worth the money, great gameplay, writing is really good. Just great fun without annoying in app purchases!! Please make more games like this one developer.
Best game Ive played since the original monkey island games! We feel like this was written for us we wish there were more.
This game was one of the best we have played yet please please make a number 2 thank you.
Love the humor and voice acting.
We loved this game!!! We wish theyd partner to make more of them.
Enjoyable and funny point and click adventure reminiscent of the Monkey Island games and other classics. All of the puzzles made sense; we didnt need to consult a walkthrough or use any hints. The voice acting is top notch. Plenty of humorous inside jokes/pop-culture references. (we especially appreciated the Oh Brother desk quote.) Well worth the two bucks we paid.
Reminded us of Broken Age. Tom Baker is brilliant.
Loved it. Im an avid point n click and room escape fan. This game didnt disappoint. We were stuck for awhile on one solution…felt so shelly when we realized what Id forgotten, concha see.
We did this one with our kids at night for a couple of weeks. We loved it, especially the humor and characters. The puzzles are very solvable as well. We wish we could play the precursor too! But alas, it is not available to us at this time.
Super fun game, we didn't run into any glitches. We were surprised when it ended so quickly, though. We felt like we were just getting into it.
Cute game but stupid glitches happen. Working a puzzle and one of the pieces needed just disappears! Now you can't complete the part or get the piece back. Waste of money. Edit- the programmer got back to us very quickly . We had to start over but he is going to make it so the game pieces cant leave a smaller area ( in the next up date).
Wonderful humor and fantastic voice acting coupled with good puzzles. We're hoping this becomes a series.
Clever puzzles, great voice acting, good character animation.
This game was hilarious and fun! Kept us busy with a good 4-10 hours of gameplay, we've paid more for shorter games that weren't anywhere near as good! It was challenging but not exasperating. Totally deserves all 5 stars.
We'll post a new one….5 stars for amazing game.
Loved the humor in the dialogue and the characters were interesting. Tom Baker who played the doctor in Dr. Who lends his voice in this game. The game played well 90 percent of the time on our iPad, however we couldn't get past a glitch at the end which kinda created an anticlimax for the finish.we did have to check with a walk through to diagnose the problem. Overall we did enjoy playing this game. It was not too complicated and there were hints but not too much to ruin it for you. You still have to figure things out. Good one.
The game itself is very enjoyable. Lines are hilarious. It's like a classic Sierra game. There is a problem with the save/load system though. Twice, we've saved multiple times as we've played through, only to discover upon our return that all of the saved games were gone. We'd love to keep playing, but we don't have enough free time to try to play through a third time.
One of the top few point-and click adventure games we've found in the appStore. Funny dialogue, excellent voice-acting, and long gameplay. You can tell how much work went into this game, especially for the music/lyrics and character development.
Good amount of humor, interesting puzzles/tasks. Would love a sequel or another adventure.
This game is the standard to which all point and click game should aspire.
Hilarious, challenging and beautiful graphics. This game took us a couple days to beat and we were so sad when it ended. Worth the money. Buy this.
This adventure game has the perfect challenge level. Subtle hints that guide rather than give it away when you are stuck. With effort and thinking, all of the tasks are solvable without help. We enjoyed every moment of the game and could not put it down.
Awesome old school adventure game with fun puzzles, great graphics, and humorous dialogue. Highly recommend.
Fun and intriguing.. But we can't get through chapter two and we have completed all of the mini challenges of that chapter :(.
What more do you need? This game is a relatively easy puzzle game for experienced point-and-click gamers, yet it's tongue-in-cheek humor and quirky characters makes the game engrossing and enjoyable. The heroine, Nelly, is sassy and witty; completely charming. The voice acting is very good, made the game really come alive. We also enjoyed the songs – especially the one played during the credits. Quite cheeky. And if you're a lover of puns, like we are, you'll problees be giggling and chuckling your way throughout the game.
The game is stuck with a white screen when trying to load chapter 3. Can't do anything else. Tried to restart from a saved point but still no luck.
We played this in our iPhone 6s (even though we have an iPad) and it was very playable in term of size. It reminds us of Monkey Island, but original in its own right. The dialogue is very entertaining and the puzzles are fun. Our suggestion to the designers, move the "?" icon somewhere easier to access. Also, is there not a way to play the same game on multiple iOS devices? We didn't see an option.
Absolutely loved playing this amazing adventure! Was very challenging and fun! We definitely recommend this game.
Er, we mean…birds. Seriously, though, fans of point-and-click adventure games involving ridiculous amounts of lateral thinking and hilarious dialogue need to check this one out. It's everything we crazed LucasArts fans love about the genre, plus it has great voice acting and wonderful music. We know it kind of looks like a kids game…just ignore that. You'll be stuck in a puzzle in no time. But in a good way.
We are thoroughly enjoying this little charmer. The voiceovers are terrific, the dialogue is pretty funny, and the story is engaging. We wish there were hints-we do get stuck from time to time-but we are working our way through this and enjoying every single minute.
It's fun to navigate the various scenes and figure out what you're meant to do. The dialogue is cute and clever without being annoying, so the game is good for children or adults. We like that the lead is female and the game helps kids to think critically. Adorable, fun game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9.5
- Size: 1,917.50 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH
Last updated: 5th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Adventure | Developer: Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH