Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 09:17 pm
Fish Out Of Water! – Casual Game Review
Fish Out Of Water! is a Casual/Family/Entertainment game from Halfbrick, first launched in 18th April 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,613+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fish Out Of Water! Stand Out
Dive into a thrilling adventure with Fish Out of Water, without ads or in-app purchases. A captivating game by Halfbrick Studios, the creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Launch a group of brave fish pals into the sky and over the ocean, helping them travel far and bounce as much as possible!
Experience remastered graphics, audio and enjoy a rebalanced crystal unlocking system for a more rewarding experience.
UNIQUE FEATURES:
• 6 different fish with distinct abilities, adapting to 10 unique kinds of weather!
• Overcome challenges like tsunamis, icebergs, geysers, and jellyfish swarms.
• Unlock crystals by completing missions to buy costumes or craft charms for bonus powers!
• Online leaderboards, achievements, and secret leaderboards for top performers.
• A captivating storybook that unfolds with every level up.
Test your timing and strategy as you launch your fish friends like Finlay the Daredevil Dolphin and Micro the Whale through the air, bouncing and skipping across the ocean's surface. The unique physics and fluid mechanics of the game provide an engaging and immersive experience.
Download Fish Out of Water now and embark on an exhilarating journey across the ocean, discovering new challenges and unlocking extraordinary powers!
WHAT'S HALFBRICK+
Halfbrick+ is a mobile games subscription service featuring:
● Exclusive access to the highest-rated games
● No ads or in app purchases
● Brought to you by the makers of Award-winning mobile games
● Regular updates and new games
● Curated by hand – for gamers by gamers!
Kick off your Guest Access with 60 minutes of gameplay! If you like what you see, start your One Month free trial and play all our games without ads, in app purchases, and fully unlocked games! Your subscription will auto-renew after 30 days, or save money with an annual membership!
If you have any questions, please contact our support team https://support.halfbrick.com
Terms of Use: https://www.halfbrick.com/subscription-agreement
Privacy Policy: https://www.halfbrick.com/halfbrick-plus-privacy-policy
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fish Out Of Water! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th December 2024
Recent improvements include:
We've addressed some minor technical issues to improve performance across the board. Thanks for playing and keep the feedback coming!
Download & Availability
Fish Out Of Water! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fish Out Of Water! 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:
We used to play this game a lot and its exactly the way it used to be but with different animation and we love it. The only issue is it comes off as a free game but youre only able to play it for 60 minutes a day for free and once you start, that 60 Min continues to run. After that, you have to pay five dollars monthly for a membership to continue playing that game we understand paying to get rid of ads or paying for the app in general or having even inside app purchases but a time limit and having to pay to be able to play it twice a day is really stupid to us.
When we were younger, we remember playing this game so much so we dont know why we ever would have had any thoughts to delete it. Every now and again we would remember this game but not the name. A couple days ago, we were scrolling on the App Store and we saw this game. We were so happy and we downloaded it immediately. We started playing and we were so happy and was flooded with nostalgia. Then suddenly, it interrupted us to ask us to pay to play. We dont remember this game ever charging you just to play so maybe thats why we ended up deleting it when we were younger. Since Im not spending money on this game, Im going to half to delete it. It was fun to play again and at least we got 20 minutes of nostalgia and play time but unfortunately thats also all we will get. The game itself is 5 stars but due to being required to pay play, it really bumps it down.
Nostalgic, we played this game as a little kid and just came back to it, very fun, Hard To Please Harwood is our nemesis.
We cant believe we finally found the same game we played with our p-pop. We love this game so much and we play it all the time.
Hello, we love the game, but we dont love that we need to subscribe to play without a time limit! Please make it so just having a Game Center account can allow people to play an unlimited amount of time. It would make us super happy and we would rate this game a five star! From, Moonjangsam.
Our son made us buy him something and we are broke make IT FREE.
Okay so Im playing the game and we cant play anymore beacouse now we have to pay.so we are deleting the game please fix this.
We remember playing this as a child and so we redownloaded it in hopes to do what you do in games, play. Half-brick is too high in confidence on how good their games are. The company is very good at creating games but why not create more in-app purchases like costumes and such? People wont stick around to pay and pay each month. Just upset we cant play the full game and cant have our younger family members play since money is involved like always.
This is one of our childhood fav game but then our iPad broke and we had new get a new one in like 10 years and this fish game is our favorite game and we forgot the name of the game and searched for it every day until we FINNALLY FOUND IT!! So THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR NPT DELETING THIS GAME!! And thank you for reading this we love you.
We played this game a lot when we were younger and coming back to it now, it didnt disappoint! Its a simple premise, yet its diverse and has countless possibilities! Not to mention, since it basically forces you to sign up at the start, theres absolutely no ads all for free! We adore this game for its cute and simple artstyle and the lack of the developers trying to milk you for every penny youll offer up. Theres no in game store as far as Ive seen and the game is simple enough for anyone to get into and enjoy! Its entertaining but not to the point of addiction, so we would definitely recommend this to anyone whos interested! Have a good day/night.
Should it be possible to get 105 skips in one throw? (With Rocket.).
This company loooooves to delete our save data in all their games every few years. Kinda sick of it honestly.
We have been playing this for years, but apparently with the last update all progress is reset. Lost our challenge levels, crystals and scores.
10 years ago we were in our early high school years playing this game. Now Im married, playing this game alongside our husband. Im so, so happy they brought this game back.
We dont have the gmail app so this app is useless to us. Please remove this login part so we can use the app.
Its very simple and nostalgic, its actually one of our childhood games but we wish there was more to the game because it gets repetitive after a while kind of like the older pokemon animes for example It would also be really neat if there was a public discord server for this game lels.
We downloaded this game yesterday,we played urn for a while,we had fun,until it forced us to sign in,idk how to sign in,our mama thinks its a scam,we need some help pls.
Is a good game we like when you throw the the fish.
Ever since Ive first gotten our hands on a device, this game was our number 1 go-to app for passing the time. The fish are unique, the weather is beautiful, and the goals and challenges keep things interesting. We absolutely love that this is back on the App Store for a much needed nostalgia trip. Cheers, Halfbrick, Heres to many more fun-filled skippy years to come.
Thank you for preserving this great game, this game deserves to be brought to future generations of the iPhone and modern phone alike, its simple fun and aged like fine wine keep it up guys Im very proud to have this gem back in our hands.
We have an idea. Make a splash pass, a seasonal pass for cool stuff! You should add more fish! Give them all different hit boxes, so that if you cant think of a special ability for them, they are all still unique cus of their hit boxes. First new fish: Mahee mahee.
Love the game and you should make plushys and Murch of the game we would buy all of them.
This game was the GOAT of our childhood and now its back.
BROOOOO we didnt think that they were going to add this game back we havent played it before but it really looks fun we saw a couple YouTubers play like Ethangamertv play it. He was our favorite childhood YouTuber to watch. We was so cool and funny to watch.
Im very glad to see this game back on the Apple Store. Used to play it a lot when we were younger. Although leading on that point, we never changed our accounts since then. So its rather annoying that the game itself does not remember all the achievements Ive learnt. Since from what we can recall, we got them all. We know its the same game as well since theres reviews on it from seven years ago.
We know this is a kids it is super fun in all but we need to make an account for halfbrick please make it so that you don't need to make an account but overall we love this game.
We remember playing this game as a kid and we would always go to our aunts just to play it nostalgia hit hard when we saw this on the App Store when we saw we swear we had a mini heart attack.
We just updated to the most recent version of FOOW, in hopes that it would fix one of the more annoying bugs. Our entire history – most of the extras unlocked, high Pro Score personal best, progress through a great many levels is now gone. Not cool.
We remember when we played this game back when we were like five. Now we are a twelve year old ready for this nostalgia smack up side the head. This is a great game though for long car rides, no internet waiting rooms. Great for kids.
Oh our gosh we are so happy that this game was brought back to the App Store, this game was our entire childhood and we were so sad to see that when we checked back to find it years later, it was gone. We were able to play on our old iPad but there were a couple glitches here and there, so we are so excited to play this again and experience our favorite childhood app again.
We remember we loved this game when we were 6 so Im downloading it again.
Ive been waiting for this to return Ive had it in our library and downloaded it time to time to play but it was buggy now that youre back this will be the only game on our phone!! Welcome back and hope to see more achievements and goals on this game.
We used to play this game as a kid and we got a supper high score can you make so you can keep progress on accounts.
We been waiting on the return of this game hopefully its as good as it was before.
Thank you but please bring back the clubs feature or whatever it was called. Also its kinda bugged when we enter the menu with the leaderboards and stuff and we cant exit and have to close the app.
Its dumb how u guys made it where u have to pay to play the game now this literally was our childhood game.
This game is amazing! Fun, addicting, its great! But then came the subscribtion. Im just confused why we couldnt play one of our favorite games because of advertizing??? (still rating it 5 stars cause its fun) but anyways im too young to buy the subscribtion so now im sad :(.
Hello good people of halfbrick. We just want to start by saying, this game is an absolute classic, played it when we were young, and we were delighted to see it return. Well. With the required subscription of halfbrick+, it seems that the people arent so, you know. Happy? So what if, you could make a version with a few ads here and there, maybe you could watch an ad to be able to throw one more fish. Or get some extra crystals and whatnot. We feel like this could work. But if it doesnt, oh well, at least we tried. But still cool game, we give it 8 skips out of 15 meters.
We had missed this app dearly and we were overjoyed to have found it again. But its disappointing that its locked behind the Halfbrick+ subscription. We wish there was another version we could play that didnt require the subscription. We have no problem powering through ads if it means we can play a deeply missed childhood game again.
They are so STINGY!! You can play the game for free for like 15 minutes and then you need the membership!!! OUTRAGEOUS!!! We literally downloaded this game today, we played it when we were younger and we played for free then and now you have to pay like $23 USD a MONTH to play it!! We used to play as a kid for HOURS on end and now we cant because of human greed. YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS GAME FREE AGAIN!! You took it away, our ability to play games we love for free. We loved this game but now its a useless download oh yeah and have a nice day (we wont).
The game is great but the pay to play aspect is garbage because you should not have to pay for a mobile game there should just be a paid subscription for no ads and the game should be free with ads, but great game plus lots of nostalgia.
Alright, what the flip? Who decided that a subscription was a good call? Id probably buy this game because it was a relaxing childhood favorite, but a subscription?! Bruuuuuh. We aint paying 36 dollars a year for a game. PUHLEAAAASSEEE make it the way it was again.
We wanted to play fish out of water but we got a subscription for no reason. We were getting good scores and then it ruined the fun. Not cool Halfbrick, not cool. Also, we hope Halfbrick plus dies out.
We used to play this game in our childhood, was so sad when it was taken off the app store. Found out its back on the app store and got super excited: tell us why you get 20 MINUTES OF FREE GAMEPLAY and then are forced to pay REAL MONEY to keep playing a CHILDRENS GAME? So disappointing that half brick became this greedy. All we wanted as a little bit of joy from this game.
We Love It! But Hate As Of Course.
This is a very good game for iPad but it requires this weird account that you need to create for unlimited playtime.
We remember playing this game back when we were younger and we wanted our son to experience the joy of tossing cute little fishies across the ocean and getting high scores. The one thing we dont remember is having to pay monthly they do give you 20 min to play for free with random reminders that sort of force you to close the app out. Which we guess is better than nothing. But Its safe to say that after the 20 min of watching our son toss the fish into space the fun and nostalgia is over. We do hope that in the future this game does become free again because it truly is a masterpiece that everyone deserves to enjoy but for now we will have to say goodbye to this game again.
The new monthly fee is ridiculous.
Love this game thanks for bringing it back.
We loved the game when it released what feels like a decade ago we recently redownloaded the old version and was playing that when today we see it finally got updated! We know what Ill be doing for a while.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.12
- Size: 337.80 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Halfbrick
Last updated: 18th December 2024 | Genre: Casual, Family | Developer: Halfbrick