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Fish Tycoon Lite – Family Game Review
Fish Tycoon Lite is a Family/Simulation/Entertainment game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 12th December 2008.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,196+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fish Tycoon Lite Stand Out
NOTE: The FULL version of Fish Tycoon is currently on sale for $0.99 for a very limited time! If you have wanted the FULL version, now is your chance!
Fish Tycoon is the award-winning virtual fish breeding game from the creators of the acclaimed Virtual Villagers series. Now, with the introduction of Fish Tycoon for iPhone and iPod touch, you can take this sensational game with you wherever you go!
Starting with $300 and a handful of eggs gathered from the fabled island of Isola, your goal is to unlock the genetic puzzle and discover the 7 Magic Fish of Isola. Along your journey to discovering the Magic Fish, you will breed and care for more than 400 species of fish, financing your operation by selling your creations to the eager customers who visit your Fish Store. A wide variety of aquarium supplies are available to equip and customize your tanks, care for your fish, and magically enhance your aquariums. The game continues to progress in true real time, even when your iPhone is turned off, so don’t forget to check in regularly to feed your fish, cure their illnesses, and create the next generation of baby fish that will be another step in your pursuit of the legendary Magic Fish of Isola.
More about Fish Tycoon
- It’s a virtual pet: care for your fish in your own virtual aquarium.
- It’s a simulation game: maintain virtual fish in a persistent world.
- It’s a genetic puzzle: discover which breeding combinations will lead to the discovery of the 7 Magic Fish.
- It’s a tycoon game: test your business skills and aquarium skills at the same time!
- There are many approaches to solving the game, with over 400 species of fish to breed.
- You can customize your tanks: purchase aquarium ornaments and place them where you like them!
- Experience real-time game play, with new surprises every time you turn on the game!
Full version features:
- Unlimited play
- Full access to fish supplies and research
- 2 fish tanks for breeding and selling your fish
Upgrade to the full version to get tanks that hold 3 times as many fish and the option to purchase a third customizable fish tank for even more fish breeding!
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fish Tycoon Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th October 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Hello fellow Tycoons!
We've updated the original Fish Tycoon to support the latest devices and iOS versions! With over 2 million downloads on iOS, we want to make sure that you can continue playing your favorite apps on the newest devices. Feed, breed, and succeed by unlocking hundreds of species of fish, upgrading your own virtual aquarium to solve the genetic puzzles and rediscover the 7 Magic Fish of Isola.
Revisit the award-winning Fish Tycoon, and be sure to check out the sequel, Fish Tycoon 2: Virtual Aquarium!
https://itunes.apple.com/app/fish-tycoon-2-virtual-aquarium/id1194725957?ls=1&mt=8
Download & Availability
Fish Tycoon Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fish Tycoon Lite 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:
Eggscue us but our fishys keeps on dying on turtiol keeps telling us to speak for a stupid shell lol . So how do you get more fishes? What trick is arent not supposed to do the tutorial? Even webkinz is better then this lol why on the earth the 2 nd fish tycoon fish dont die.
We did first part of research in environment and all our fish die. Most live til they are almost grown(20) and then as they turn 20 they die. Opened app this morning all our many (baby fish) dead. The few that live will hardly sell.
We love how so many people are bagging this game and saying the graphics are bad. This game has been around FOREVER. BEFORE SMARTPHONES EXISTED. OF COURSE THE GRAPHICS ARENT GREAT. But Ive always loved this game and Im glad theres an app version of it.
This game is awesome and fun there is no adds.
We feel like it's more complicated to take care of a fish then a dog or the game is legit impossible to keep every fish alive.
Ive spent countless hours playing this game over the last several months, and suddenly our app will not open. It is not a phone error as we have reset our phone, but an app error and If we remove and reinstall we sill lose our progress. We are so upset that the game has failed in such a way. Also would love to be able to add a tank with in app purchase or something so we do not have to restart withers.
They make stuff in the store wayyyy too expensive and it takes forever to get any decent money or have space for enough fish to sell and actually make profit from. The research stuff is too expensive and so are the plants and most of the things you can get.
Good. Just annoying that a lot of our babies die before getting to adulthood.
This is a great game but needs support for new iPhone models.
The fish die so early on that when THERE IS A THREE HOUR GAP LIKE SEVEN FISH DIE.
This game is terrible. We bought it hoping our 4 and 7 year old grandchildren might enjoy a game without killing and punching. It is impossible to sell fish even changing the prices did not help ( both raising and lowering the price). There were no specific directions on how to encourage the people entering the store to buy the fish. Therefore the players money ran out.
Difficult to keep fish alive, timely to grow and sell. Supplies are very expensive. To much hassle with little rewards. Poor help screen.
Every time we tried to get good fish they were too fragile!! Most of our fish would die at the age of 5 before we could breed them!! Waste of time.
Cannot exit the game whatsoever and have to restart the phone to get access to home screen. Good game but this needs to be fixed.
When ever our fish are pregnant and we leave the game and come back they don't stay pregnant. We know they didn't have babies either because we would wait and their wouldn't be a new number of fish in the tank.
Awsome game :)! All these ppl saying they cant see anything or play this game cuz its too blurry, are obviously blind or wear glasses. We have 20/20 vision and can read everything in this game and we do not wear glasses. The only 2 words that are blurry in this game are right next to the fish isolation box and they say "Health" and "Food". Everything else in the game is perfectly readable and clear. If you liked fish tycoon on pc, youll like this game. Also the Lite version is the full version just with 2 tanks only and they hold 7 fish max each tank. Also fish do not die too fast or any other crap others are saying. This game is exact to the pc version and plays properly. Also its easier to just throw the fish away that get sick, saves you money in the long run. AND you can set your own price for each fish***, just put one in the isolation box and tap "species". And hit the back arrow on the calculator that is there. Its that easy. All in all fun game :). Just like we remember. If a baby fish dies quickly, its becuz its a rare breed and cant survive in your tank without doing environment research first.
Great. Played since we were little and is the perfect app. We recommend it to EVERYONE.
We think it's great but we think you should have less picky people and more upgrades.
Is what a dumb person would. Say the only problem we have with it is absolutely nothing ' we love this game.
Been playing this game for years, yet we haven't managed to get all 7 magic breeds. Simple gameplay and easy instructions, just difficult to figure out the best strategy. Can get boring, though, if you're not a patient person.
Do we have to buy the full version to get everything in the CPU version? We'd rather pay nothing if we have the CPU version.
Can someone do us hugest favor a type everything in the fish environment because our fishes keep dying and im no where near that money to buy it and when we do we will hav no money left over. Plzzzzzz do this for us and we would thank u forever.
We don't care what these dudes say this game is super duper cool .').
This is a great game we think everyone shood get this awesome game. But whatever u do DO NOT update it. It'll get rid of all ur data and money and fish and EVERYTHING. We love this game.
Ads on most games only appear when you have wifi. So all you have to do to remove ads is go to settings, wifi, turn off wifi, then no ads! 1,000% free.
Overall it's a good game and it's even better for the nintendo ds. But couldn't you just put more features on the free version or just make the other one free.
But wish it had better graphics.
This app is super fun and challenging, but it's not for people who don't have the time. It's hard in the beginning, but our advice is to first find your most expensive fish and mass produce it so you can sell it to earn money; don't start breeding until you've fully researched the fish enviroment! Hope we helped! This app is so addicting.
Very entertaining. Needs to be updated though, we got an error message that said the game won't run with future versions of iOS on iPhone.
We used to play this game so much as a child and we're excited they made a mobile version for it. We can't wait to try it, we hope it's as good as the computer version.
We really love this game but we needs a few things.
This game is okay the graphics are terrible and at the beginning it's really boring.
We love this game, absolutely! We just wish it would notify you with any changes with the fish.
We're obsessed with breeding all the fish.
We love the game but it goes too slow and we can tell it is made for a computer and not an we-touch. ;(.
We used to play this game on our dad's computer so we were excited to find it in the App Store, the thing is the graphics are blurry and if we're not there, then our baby fish don't appear after they're born. We don't know if other people have the se problem or if it's uniquely us, but please fix.
Writing is way to small on some parts and we can't read it. And whenever we exit out of the game ( meaning we completely close the app, not just exit to our home screen) it doesn't save and makes us start from the beginning. Needs a save option. But it's a fun game.
Its a fun game except the graphics and how long it takes for the fish to become mature and the writing in the game is horrible and oh god dont even bother getting this game test it out with the free version before you buy it.
It takes forever to load. It's been loading for OVER 10 minutes;(:(.
We think that fish tycoon is fun, but the graphics stink and be you can totally tell that this game was made for the computer we would install the free version apposed to the 99cent version.
For the pregnant fish, you can't have more than 7 fish in a tank. (wish it could hold more) So when you breed fish, there has to be room for the baby fish. (ex: 5 fish, 1 pregnant fish, and an empty spot for the baby) It really helps if you count your fish before breeding. 1 pregnant fish = 1 empty spot. But we really have trouble with the fish sickness. We have bad eyesight, so we usually guess the color of the sickness. Even when the poster says," Meds don't always work on the first try." Heck yeah, we had to buy 8 bottles or the green medicine, until we ran out of money. In the end the fish was still sick. We also had the fish of curing, but it never helped. : ( For easy money, just keep playing the game until you have two same magic fish. (greenfin spontanus is really common) then breed them both, when you feel like selling them. Stick any two magic fish into Tank 1 or isolation tank, and sell the rest of the extra magic fish off. (REMEMBER- don't sell them too high of a price and don't sell the two off or you won't have anymore to breed, unless you want to) Glitch? We sold 4 fish, got the money. Starting to breed other fishes. Then played another app. When we got back (we always put ours on x2 speed) we knew we would have babies already, ain't happening. The 2 fish we sold where back in the selling tank, and one of them were sick. We're not paying for them, we're sick of it. Our fishes we bred we're not even pregnant or had babies, and it seemed like we never even did anything. Maybe if you fixed this, this game would actually be better. Overall, we had a better experience of the game playing on the computer. This version is very disappointing.
We love this game but the display is blurry and the text is too small to read. Everything else seems fine.
We really enjoy playing this game (when we don't forge to feed our fish), but it is badly in need of an update. We can't handle it on our iPhone 4 without a retina display update. This game is behind the times.
It is almost impossible to get most research items in the store. Unless this game is your halftime job. Also the words are soooooo tiny! Ever tried reading it yourself? Tanks should house at least ten fish and you should be able to buy more tanks or unlock them. We ended having to use our sell tank as a breeding one!!!!!! Magic fish should be much easier to find too and the sickness should be described better. We are not rating this app any higher than this until you make some attempt to these issues.
Takes a LONG time to load Do NOT update Overall it's funish.
You should add a second tank so we can keep more fishies (:.
We love the game, we love it on the computer more, though. Here's how you can make it better: A) You could fix the graphics so you can actually tell what's wrong with your fish!! Our fish keep dying and we can't tell why! If it's from fungus or ick! B) Like the computer version, you should have an extra tank that you can buy. We have no room for all our fish, that we have to keep the fish we WANT, in the SELL tank! C) Make the game easier. We know you can change the game difficulty in the options menu, but it doesnt change at all! It's still so hard to sell your fish! Even when you keep lowering the prices, the customers still won't buy them. Please fix the bugs, and then maybe we'll THINK about getting the full version.
It's fun when you don't have iny thing better to do.
The computer version is alot better. For extra money- Price your fish at 1000$ each. People will still buy them.
It's really fun but it's a bit hard. We also hate the screen saver button in the corner. It's really annoying. Sometimes we accidentally press it and the toolbars slooooowwlyy disappear. We have to wait until they are gone before we can get them back.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.2
- Size: 41.17 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: LDW Software, LLC
Last updated: 19th October 2017 | Genre: Family, Simulation | Developer: LDW Software, LLC