Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 02:46 pm
Fishing and Life – Sports Game Review
Fishing and Life is a Sports/Simulation/Entertainment game from Nexelon inc., first launched in 16th May 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 797+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fishing and Life Stand Out
Beautiful and Peaceful Fishing
Fishing is to Heal your heart.
Don't worry. It will be ok!
We introduce the beautiful and peaceful game to you who's tired and exhausted from daily life.
Enjoy fishing whales just with a simple control while listening to the sound of waves ASMR at the beautiful sea.
Fishing and Life Story
The main character so normal that he could be anyone in anywhere went fishing to the sea of the memories with his dad on a very tiring day.
He only has a shabby boat and a fishing rod, but he enjoys the peaceful fishing at the beautiful sea where the sun sets, shooting stars fall and the sky fades into the lighthouse.
What you can do
You can fish beautiful fish, scary sharks and big whales just with simple control.
Enjoy the beautiful sunset and the moonlight that fade into the sea.
It presents the beautiful scenes of the sunrise and moonset as time goes by.
The sound of the waves heals your heart.
The natural ASMR waves sound brings you to the carefree sea.
Try to put your fish in the aquarium. Even just looking at them makes you feel at ease.
Enjoy your own fishing while getting changed to different clothes.
It's ok to just get on the boat and go to the sea.
Various boats will take you further into the sea.
You can enjoy it online.
Invite your friends and enjoy fishing together.
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fishing and Life is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Added 100-player survival content
- Added underwater viewing system
- Added season pass
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Fishing and Life is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fishing and Life 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:
The game is very relaxing and fun but sometimes bugs can get in the way of things such as the red terrapin not registered in the fantasy sea. It spawns normal terrapins but not red ones even tho it checked every part of the map. (we have 133/134 entries).
The game is good but there is a bug where we cant equip our new boat. Wasted 9,900 points.
We just downloaded this app, and its a good one. Its a really good way to meditate and just plain relax. Keep up the good work.
This game remenber us and our grandpa fishing :( is that why we love this game, so we have a idea can you make the graphics of the water more realistic please.
Ok this game is suppose to be peace and all that right?But every time we play theres like 1 ad every 6 fish we catch and it ruins the mood of the game and we dont get why ads are more important than your players.
This game is very relaxing and fun at the same time.
Not to easy, not too hard. The progression is good as well, many different upgrades and aspects to the game. Different zones to fish, special events, so on. Considering the effort put into this game, Im pretty surprised this isnt that popular.
This is a really fun and addicting game. You do have to watch adds but you can buy a package to remove all adds. If you really enjoy the game we would highly recommend it. It is frustrating at first when your lures keep getting snatched by small fish but once you progress it starts to become LOTS of fun. You can also upgrade your boat and rods to catch new fish and travel further distances to find fish. Over all this is a great game and you wont regret playing it.
Fun game. Wish there was no pay to play element outside of ad removal.
We really enjoyed this game for a while, and we are so happy we purchased no ads because that made all the difference. But the recent update with the addition of Ancient Sea created a bug that hasnt been fixed yet. Theres a new fish that needs a four star bait, but when we try to look for it, we cant find a fish that matches the silhouette in the catalog. AND the golden arowana cant be caught for some reason as it just keeps spinning around your bait. Is that supposed to be the new fish? Because if so, you cant catch it anyway. So we got bored and downloaded Mariokart while we wait for the developers to fix this glitch.
We really enjoy this game, its relaxing fun for those who like being able to complete games in a relaxed fashion, but there is one fish that is impossible to catch due to some weird bug causing it to spin around the hook and not attach Its the gold arowana btw.
In the settings menu you cant silence the music. So it plays on our phone incessantly even when the app is closed. Please fix this!! Otherwise, really good app.
The game is great! Id like to pay the 8$ for no ads but you still get them on bait restores. Kinda silly if you ask us. Lower the cost to remove some ads or give us the option to remove all the ads.
We saw our brother playing this game, and naturally we asked him if we could play. Once we got to play we were hooked. We just HAD to download it ourselves. This game is so much fun! Though it may seem like a simple fishing game, it is actually a fun and addicting game with many unique types of fish. Once you get to a pretty high level its super fun! You can use one star baits to get two star fish and so on. The biggest fish is a four star fish. You can keep fish in your aquarium and they swim around, earning you money. With the money, you can upgrade your boat and your fishing pole to high levels. While it may be a bit frustrating at first, let us tell you, it gets easier. Though the grammar of the game is a little bit bad, the quality of the game makes up for it. For some reason the game makes you watch ads to do things though(they have to make money somehow). If it really bothers you you can pay for no ads. Overall, really good game, its enjoyable and fun when you are bored and dont have WiFi.
This game is really chill and pretty easy to play. Im glad Mola Mola and clownfish are included! Im pretty early in the game we think but the concept of fish you can summon by catching a certain amount of other fish is cool! The only thing so far that bugs us are the ads. The ads are kinda annoying and jarring. We know they need the ads to make money, we get it, but its frustrating to having your peaceful fishing trip interrupted by a 30 second Wordscapes ad. Still, id recommend this for sure! The music and art style are really unique.
Need too add baits to catch fish because it is really annoying to catch fish, that are in the way.
Too much ads. Ruins the game play. Want to open a chest? Ads want to feed your fish? Ads want to fish more than 5 mins? Ads way to ruin a good game.
Its a good game and its really fun. We rate four stars because there too many of the same fish. We know thats how it is in real life but this is a game. Its frustrating how a pufferfish or kid fish take your two or higher star bait and then you have to get the bait back by getting a one star and using that as bait to get higher fish. But overall its a good game.
Our friend downloaded this game for us and when we went to check for updates a week later we were shocked its not a best selling #1 on the app store kind of thing. We HIGHLY recommend it. Im playing the vanilla version but the ads dont really bother us. One important play-style note: rather than just casting your line and letting it fall where it may, we prefer trying to strafe around the smaller fish by quickly tapping the reel-in button. Makes the game way more about skill and strategy.
You press and hold a button and you decide what to do and buy.
We never rate games but this one deserves a rating Ive been playing this for a while know and we love it. We recommend this to anyone of any age we love this game and want to support it as much as we can. This is the best game ever.
Disclaimer, we enjoyed the base games premise and mechanics that we bought the 7.99USD No Ad package. And man does it speed up this game. The ONLY thing that has a watchable add is when a you want to get your expensive lure back after its clobbered by too big of a fish. – There is an amusing side to this game which is the rather interesting text boxes throughout it. It is a classic case of All you bases are belong to us kinda deal. It made the lure menu a little unintentionally misleading. Here is a list of important distinctions we had to find out. 1.) For example, a bought lure only lasts one cast, even if you do not hook a fish. 2.) The rank of the bait (like using a 1 rank fish to catch 2 rank fish etc.) only affect how large a fish you can catch. So if you catch a nice huge rank 3 fish and you decide to use it as bait for your next cast, BE SURE to buy a minnow bait for that cast. This makes the lure unwanted by rank 2 fish and below. 3.) The aquarium is your best friend. Fish earn money while they are in there, so long as they are fed. Feeding has a 10 minute cool down. But the more fish you have, the more money you will accumulate. HOWEVER, the smaller the fish the faster its stamina (available time is can earn money) goes down. But also, the more MONEY VALUE a fish has, the longer it will last, even past the 10 minute mark of the feeding, so feedings will begin to overlap. THIS IS THE MORE STABLE SOURCE OF PREDICTABLE INCOME. Use it to be able to afford lures during snap decisions when you know where a big fish is and you want to get after him. 4.) Upgrades to equipment – Rod level = ability to catch large rank fish – Line level = length of how deep you line will extend into the water – Reel level = how far your cast will fly *This puts more of an emphasis on Line length and Rod level. Unfortunately rod level stats for fish are not given; ours is at an even 30 and its fine. 5.) Fish have a slow respawn rate (this is a good thing). This means that you can carve out a lane by quickly catching all the rank 1 fish in an area, leaving it open for you to start using those rank 1 fish as bait for the rank 2 fish you can now easily reach through that carved out section. The rest is up to your play style. We really enjoy this game and it looks like the Alto games so thats awesome! -Benny.
We were looking for some games to play, we come across this. Ive read all of the developers details and the game seems great, we just now downloaded it. We honestly hope this becomes huge, we would like to see what you guys can do to this game. Congrats.
The game itself is amazing but random ads keep popping up and its annoying.
We loveee playing this we completed it multiple times and we really enjoy it, helps us relax and always look forward to it.
Tell us if anyones phone got a virus from this.
You should add the mosasaurus and popular sea monsters like the bloop and sea eater and other sea monsters like SCP 3000 we love this game it helps us relax thank you for the game. Please add mosasaur and sea monsters.
Fishing is fun and being able to add caught fish to an aquarium is pretty cool. Would be better with less ads though.
We love this game so much, and we played this game for a long time but recently we noticed that some fishes in our aquarium kept changing into a different kind of fish. First we thought we just couldnt remember what fish was in our aquarium but today our arowanas were gone and was replaced by this weird ancient fish and a white shark. We honestly felt really upset bc we lost the fishes that we spent time a lot on. We hope u can change this bug.
This game is great! It has a lot of great features like the aquarium and the hatchery but it also feels very tedious. Once you use better bait it is almost certain that it gets snatched by a lower level fish. This problem makes it feel as if you arent making any progress at all. However we feel this issue could be fixed easily by making it so that fish that are of a lower level than your bait cant grab it because honestly we find it ridiculous that a melon fish can grab a marlin.
Mobile phones and iPads can not share game progress.
We LOVE this game, one annoying aspect is that smaller fish can ALWAYS eat any size of bait, so, we were thinking, add a trait system/upgrade thing to your rod, where you can get things for it to improve it, but said things you buy for it can be swapped for other stuff, like something that makes your line sink deeper, but if you dont want that, switch it out to an upgrade where if bait is big enough, no small or medium fish can eat it, only big fish. Like Cat Goes Fishing! Please add a mechanic like that, but besides that, glorious game. FISH. FOR. LIFE.
The game is decent but a little repetitive and with a lot a lot a lot a lot of ads which ruin it.
More of the same hook em, then bleed em dry paradigm. Sigh.
This game is simple, fun and relaxing but it misses a chance to have some customization and more upgrades. Could be turned to a five star game with some good updates.
Hi we think the game is great but iPad is makes it a three . Our iPad is about 10 years old and with a lot of our iPad does this.
The game is really great and its peaceful but every time we use a huge bait we get bait robbed by a puff and other small fish. The minnow is good but still.
We absolutely love this game. Its soothing graphics mixed with cool gameplay makes this one of our favorites.
Good game but little fishes keep eating way better bait fishes.
Didnt notice it at first but its pay to win. You can be patient and progress through the first third of the game by learning how to use the baits properly, but you eventually hit a point where you cant progress further until you watch a bunch of ads or buy(with real money) a bunch of baits to clear the way of small fish in order to catch the bigger ones which allow you to unlock new maps. The fish reset every so often and the only way to catch the big ones is by getting the little ones out of the way or by purchasing over priced bait that only catches larger fish. Eventually, you realize that the fish respawn and are places in the way you want to go due to them spawning in too frequently and whenever an ad comes up. Could be a near 5 star game but this ruins it for all players.
So first of all problem where it says sorry cant load ad but we need an ad to progress in the game and we think its actually pretty good graphics just could use a little work on that part but heres why its really really good game we think its a good game because its not paid to win you can get a ton of different stuff like sinkers or things that will help you in the game But also stars if it was just more fun.
We do enjoy this game, even though Im starting to grow tired of it. Why? Well, the biggest downfall of this game is that its almost impossible to catch fish deep. Any fish will eat the bait. Thats the point of fishing lol but itll make sense.. In order to catch a big fish, you need to catch and use as bait, the smaller fish. To catch a 3 start fish, you need a two star fish and so on. However. You CANNOT catch a 5 star fish without taking those steps. But!!! Lets say you have a 5 star fish and youre using it as bait – as you cast and your 5 star bait is dropping down, ANY 1 STAR FISH CAN EAT THE BAIT!! You now have to start all over! That irks our soul.
Its basically a game we play when Im mad no glitches but its pretty fun. Very peaceful. Im pretty good at the game already but we think should we have an update for New Years. Fish.
Is it that hard to make a body of water contain exclusively saltwater or freshwater fish? We know this game obviously isnt supposed to be realistic, but come on. It destroyed our immersion and set off all our sensors as an aquarist and fisherman ourselves. It would be a lot cooler if there were multiple bodies of water, each containing an exclusive set of fish depending on the location, possibly unlocked through gameplay. Its easier said than coded, but seeing an arowana and shark in the same location is horrendous.
It looked like it seems but they say it relaxing but it not so much, some parts you can get so close to the fish you want then end up with a one star fish . It goods but it needs updates too.
Not really relaxing And really not that fun either imho. Delete.
However, we were really hoping for more to the game, in terms of upgrades, there is essentially nothing. We were disappointed to realize after gaining a decent aquarium, that we had all the best gear and boats. But there really isn't gear 5 boats, 4 different fishing people. The problem is there isn't any upgrades other than line length, line length percentage and the level of fish your pole can catch. There's no extra poles or anything. And the fishing is relatively easy but man it's just missing stuff. Tons of fish and levels but we want more equipment and cool visual upgrades to make it feel like we actually worked for them. Also decor shouldn't take up space in your aquarium, after 15 slots it starts costing a bunch for one slot, and most decor barely gives ANY idle coins. But yeah, we like fishing so we like the game. Hopefully you guys add more to the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.0.274
- Size: 473.67 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nexelon inc.
Last updated: 25th November 2025 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Nexelon inc.